The competition takes place annually in May and/or June during International Days of Music Hesse Main-Taunus Hofheim in Hofheim am Taunus, Hesse, Germany.
In 1852, Ludwig's Western Railway reached the town and between 1892 and 1995 it also had a branch line to Hofheim.
The Königssondergau originally covered the area bordering on Kemel (now a constituent community of Heidenrod) and Bärstadt (now a constituent community of Schlangenbad) in the west, starting at Walluf, and extending east to Eppstein and Hofheim, with the Kriftel as eastern border.
Lampertheim has the outlying centres of Hofheim, Hüttenfeld, Neuschloß and Rosengarten, which are all Stadtteile.
Langenhain is a village and a district in the town of Hofheim, Hesse, near Frankfurt, Germany.
The event is patronized by the state of Hesse, the county Main-Taunus and the city of Hofheim am Taunus.
Zeilsheim is linked by bus to the observation tower in Bockenheim, to Griesheim and to Niederrad, as well as by regional bus lines to Schwalbach am Taunus und Hofheim.