Pumpkin is the star of the show during autumn time at the Klaistow farm outside of Berlin.

There are more than 100,000 pumpkins to see, 500 different varieties from all over the world, 15 larger-than-life pumpkin sculptures, and many different kinds of food offerings — spicy, sweet, salty — all made with pumpkin.

The huge pumpkin festival on the farm 56 kilometers (35 miles) southwest of the German capital, which is now taking place for the 22nd time, has become so famous that it draws up to 12,000 visitors on a weekend day and more than 5,000 on a weekday.

It started in 2004, around the same time that more and more Germans began embracing the American tradition of celebrating Halloween by decorating their front lawns with carved pumpkins, kids going trick-or-treating, and youngsters scaring each other off with gory costumes at boozy Halloween parties.

During the first pumpkin exhibition “the theme was how the pumpkin actually came to Europe, which was also a great topic, as it came from America to Europe,” Antje Winkelmann, who runs the farm together with her family, told the Associated Press on a recent visit.

“Christopher Columbus brought it with him, and we rebuilt the ship that Christopher Columbus sailed on and told the whole story.”

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As the pumpkin aficionados, among them many families with little children, made their way across the vast farm's premises, they were passing by a huge Marge Simpson, her hair made up of dozens of brown, round winter squash, the red dress put together with small orange pumpkins.

She stood near Elsa from the children's all-time favorite movie Frozen, dressed in pale yellow pumpkins.

Betha Benz, the famous German automotive pioneer was sitting on a old-school car, the wheels decorated wit the same kind of orange winter squash as her long skirt.

There was also ancient Egypt's famous queen Cleopatra sitting in a bathtub and Joan of Arc, the patron saint of France, on a horse — all of them, of course, made up of colorful pumpkins, and several other famous women.

In addition to the exhibition, which focuses on a different theme every year, people can buy 30 different kinds of pumpkins, both edible and decorative and taste from the many delicious pumpkin snacks.

AP Video by Fanny Brodersen