in 1998 with Elisabeth Scholl, Andreas Scholl and Max van Egmond and again in 2009 with Andreas Pruys and Klaus Mertens. The concert of 2011 was Handel's Messiah, with soloists Katia Plaschka, Andreas Scholl, Ulrich Cordes and Markus Flaig. Other concerts in the church have included music of Graham Waterhouse, the duo propram of Giora Feidman and organist Matthias Eisenberg in 2008 and a concert of Kalevi Kiviniemi in 2010. Although the town of Idstein hosts only a small vineyard, whose wines are not for sale but poured at special occasions, there is nonetheless a yearly wine festival, mainly presenting wines from the near Rheingau. Every other year, in the spring, the Idsteiner Hexenmarkt (Witches' Market) is held in the castle and palace area, an event with medieval crafts and entertainment. In the summer, from June to August on the third day of each of those months, the Alteburger Markt is held in Idstein-Heftrich, on the site of the Roman castrum Alteburg. The youth centre in Idstein offers a monthly event plan with hip hop, metal, DJ night and punk rock, offering at irregular intervals, for instance live concerts by local bands. Since 2003, the "Monkey Jump Festival" has been held annually. A great number of bands perform in the town's various pubs and restaurants during the festival. Since 2004, the Idstein Women's Day Frauen in Balance ("Women in Balance") has been held annually at the Gerberhaus, in collaboration with the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis equality commissioner. Notable people Sons and daughters of the town Ferdinand Abt (1877–1962), sculptor Johann Andreas Benignus Bergsträsser (1732–1812), entomologist and Rector of the University of Hanover Carl Jakob Frankenbach (1861–1937), painter and illustrator Henriette Maria Luise von Hayn (1722–1782), poet Patrick van Hecke, alias Dirrrty Franz, namesake of the German crunk group Dirrrty Franz & die B-Side Boyz Karl Hill (1831–1893), operatic baritone, who created Klingsor in Parsifal in Bayreuth Wilhelm August Kobbé (1802–1881), diplomat Gerhard Krum (born 1947), politician Marx Löwenstein (1824–1889), German-American multimillionaire Henriette Charlotte of Nassau-Idstein (1693–1734), consort of Maurice Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg Klaus-Peter Sattler (born 1941), composer Walther Schultze (1893–1970), dermatologist Wilhelm Snell (1789–1851), professor of jurisprudence and politician in Switzerland Helfrich Bernhard Wenck (1739–1803), historian and educator Friedrich August Wilhelm Wenck (1741–1810), historian Stefanie Werner (born 1970), renowned architect in New York People connected with Idstein Adolf of Nassau (c. 1255–1298), used Idstein Castle as one of his two main residences