150 years Cologne Carnival - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1972 - 40 Pfennig

For this purpose, the city of Cologne has given the following explanations: The Cologne Carnival took place in 1823 its still valid form. Since that time it has been the model of almost nocturnal activity not only in the Rhineland-Westphalia region; their sphere of influence reaches far north and southwest Germany, after Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg. Hardly any other German homeland and folk festival has demonstrated such a charisma for many decades as the Cologne Carnival. Every year, the Cologne-Rhenish folk festival brings almost one million visitors to the city, and not only on Rosenmontag, to the z. B. the Federal Railway special trains up to Hamburg uses. A closer analysis of the participants of the distributed over several weeks meeting and ball events comes to the result that in addition to the Carnival Monday especially the ball and meeting carnival strong appeal in the neighboring countries Holland, Belgium u. a. finds what the moment of mutual friend neighborly contacts is addressed. The participation in meetings or balls during a visit to the cathedral city to the "Carnival Session" is a matter of course. This is not a novelty, as the literature has testified for more than a hundred years (Schopenhauer, Mendelssohn, Offenbach, Verdi, Nietzsche, and others). Broadcasting and television have provided the Kölner Karneval "free house" for years. As a special attraction proves again and again the Cologne Rose Monday train. Opinion research institutes found in a survey that the Cologne carnival is worldwide attention, yes, for many foreigners has become the benchmark of the German folk festival par excellence. Apart from all popularity and timeliness, the carnival in Cologne must also be regarded as an important cultural historical phenomenon. In many respects - not least also in the sociological-socio-critical area - it is possible to demonstrate in its history accents and effects that go beyond the scope of conventional "folk or home festivals."