This is the centre of Erlangen's Bergkirchweih. From 1718 to 1975 Erichbier (Erich beer) was brewed in the brewery at Altstädter Kirchplatz (today the social institution Dreycedern). The cellar pavilion is still the original building from the brewery's foundation years. Ever since the brewery was taken over and closed down by Patrizier Bräu AG the beer poured at the Erich Keller has come from breweries in Fürth or Nürnberg. Every year on the final evening at 11 p.m. the whole area is drowned in a flood of handkerchiefs when a parade of sad people mourn the end of the Bergkirchweih and and symbolically buries the last beer barrel.