Stiftungsfest is a Founders Day celebration held in Norwood Young America, Minnesota

Norwood Young America, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 3,108 people, 1,171 households, and 833 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,855.8 people per square mile . There were 1,201 housing units at an average density of 717.1 per square mile...

, on the last full weekend of August every year. The first Stiftungsfest was held in 1861. It is Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

's oldest celebration.

The Stiftungsfest highlights the German

Germany

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 heritage of the city. It features old-time and polka

Polka

The polka is a Central European dance and also a genre of dance music familiar throughout Europe and the Americas. It originated in the middle of the 19th century in Bohemia...

 bands from across the United States

United States

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and Germany as well as ethnic food.