 Up to this day, the festival is held every year on the second weekend of July, incorporating traditional elements commemorating the end of the famine through song and dance, as well as a modern fairground and beer garden atmosphere.With the construction of the railroad section Ulm-Augsburg in 1853, Leipheim gained further economic significance.In 1937, construction of the autobahn A8 and the motorway bridge crossing the Danube was completed.