Fasnetmendigumzug

Last Monday, under bright blue skies and nearly spring-like temperatures, the Shrove Monday Parade marched through Freiburg’s old town.

In total, 114 guilds and music groups with around 3,400 fools paraded in the presence of more than 100,000 spectators. All of Freiburg fool guilds were present. In addition, groups from the Lake Constance area, from Swabia, Guggenmusik from Switzerland, and even a group from Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein) participated. Everyone had just been waiting for the comeback of the big Fasnetmendig parade, which had been canceled in the past two years because of Corona.

The Badische Zeitung streamed the parade, with four employees reporting on the event. Here are some screenshots, mostly uncommented, all copyrighted BZ:

    

860 kilometers away from home: The Fish from Kiel

They got her captured on Minster square

The most beautiful steeple in the world in the sun.

A choo choo train

Blowing their horns

Salamander invasion

One salamander grinds one of the reporters hard

Freiburg's drag queen is interviewed

Import from Cologne? Funkenmariechen?

More witches

The city hall is firmly in fool's hands

The sailors from Waldsee (forest lake)

Permitted cultural appropriation?

A jester

Still more witches

The devil and #MeToo

The marching band of the Freiburg fire department concluded the parade

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