Aachen Carnival Committee
| Festival Committee Aachen Carnival eV (AAK) |
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| purpose | Customs of the Aachen Carnival |
| Chair: | Frank Prömpeler (President) |
| Establishment date: | 1935 |
| Number of members: | 54 carnival societies |
| Seat : | Aachen |
| Website: | http://www.aak-aachen.de |
The Festival Committee Aachener Karneval eV, AAK for short , is the umbrella organization of all Aachen carnival associations and the supreme body of the Aachen carnival .
history
On February 12, 1829, the Florresei Carnival Association was founded in the then new Aachen City Theater with the participation of Mayor Edmund Emundts and a "considerable number of honorable men" by the judicial officer Clemens August Hecker and a Carnevals Committee, the later Elferrat , with the approval of Aachen Police Director Friedrich Joseph Freiherr von Coels von der Brügghen founded. The purpose of the establishment of the association, which was approved by the police in accordance with the requirements of the time, was the order and regulation of the Aachen carnival. 30 years later, in 1859, a group split off from the Florresei and founded the Aachen Carnival Association (AKV) , which is now the largest carnival association in the Rhenish carnival stronghold of Aachen, which is known nationwide and primarily because of its annual award of the order against seriousness the old Florresei still regards as "mother" today.
In 1935, on the initiative of Jacques Königstein, the Aachen Carnival Committee was set up as a body which, in agreement with the authorities, was supposed to develop guidelines and regulations in order to steer the Aachen Carnival back on track. Mayor Dr. Turk. Through Königstein, the AAK was also involved in the founding of the Bund Deutscher Karneval (BDK), which has existed since 1937, as a founding member, where the Aachen Carnival Committee is registered with membership number 1. With the beginning of the Second World War , the Aachen carnival ended. After the end of the war, the AAK was re-established in October 1949.
AKiKa - Aachen Children's Carnival
Königstein also inspired the tradition of the Aachen children's carnival. In 1937 his idea of a costumed children's parade was implemented for the first time, which was new not only in Aachen, but also in Germany, and today is just as much an integral part of Aachen carnival customs as the annual proclamation of the Aachen fairytale prince , the carnival prince in the children's carnival , in turn without precedent, has been proclaimed annually since 1950.
The AAK in the present
Today the AAK is an umbrella organization coordinating the Öcher Fastelovvend (Aachen Carnival) for 54 Aachen carnival clubs and, at the same time, a regional association in the BDK, which in turn acts as an umbrella organization. Its members are obliged to uphold and cultivate the customs and to pay attention to the time specified by the calendar between Epiphany / Epiphany and Ash Wednesday, i.e. to only organize carnival outside of the carnival period in exceptional cases such as November 11th . The Aachen Carnival Committee organizes, among other things, the Aachen Carnival Monday procession , the children's carnival , the open-air event on the "Eleventh in the Eleventh" at the opening of the carnival and various traditional festivals.
The AAK operates the central carnival archive and museum in the Löwenstein building on Aachener Markt .
Web links
- Official website (accessed February 2, 2008)
- Website of the Central Carnival Archive and Museum of the AAK (accessed on February 2, 2008)
- Entry on narrenwiki.de (accessed on February 2, 2008)
- Web presence of the Aachen Children's Carnival Working Committee
- AAK 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.aak-aachen.de
- ↑ a b History of the AAK on its website ( Memento from February 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 2, 2008)
- ↑ Thomas Töller: 150 Years of Aachen Carnival Association, founded in 1859 eV With foolish cheerfulness AGAINST THE ANIMAL SERIOUS 2009. Kuper Eschweiler 2009, p. 118.
- ↑ Töller, p. 143.
- ↑ AKiKa - Aachen Children's Carnival on the AAK website ( Memento from February 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 2, 2008)
- ^ Tasks of the AAK on its website ( memento from February 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 2, 2008)
- ↑ Central Carnival Archive and Museum ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 5, 2008)
