Carnival Monday

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The Rose Monday is particularly in the Rhineland and Rheinhessen the highlight of the carnival season . It falls on the Monday before Ash Wednesday and is between Carnival Sunday and Carnival Tuesday . In carnival strongholds such as Cologne , Bonn , Düsseldorf or Mainz , it is celebrated with the Rose Monday procession. Here some employers give their employees a day off as a custom ; but it is not a public holiday in any federal state.

Naming

After Napoleon had rigorously stopped carnival activities, especially in the Rhineland, the carnival was to be reformed after the Congress of Vienna in 1815. For this purpose, the so-called Festordnende Komitee was founded in Cologne in 1823 , whose annual general meeting took place during Lent , the day after Laetare Sunday . The Sunday Laetare has also been regionally called "Rose Sunday" since the 11th century, as the Pope blessed a golden rose on this day and presented it to a deserving personality. After its annual meeting, the “Festordnende Komitee” was also known as the “Rose Monday Society”.

The German dictionary by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm has a different explanation . According to this, the term Rosenmontag is derived from Middle High German from "lawn Monday", the "mad Monday". The German dictionary leads the name back to "rasen", in the Cologne language as "rose" for "great".

In the area of ​​the Swabian-Alemannic Carnival , the day on which large parades also take place in many strongholds is usually called Carnival Monday . In Switzerland, especially at the Lucerne Carnival , the day is called Güdis-Mäntig .

Rose Monday procession

Painting Rose Monday procession on Neumarkt , Cologne, 1836

The first organized carnival parade took place on February 10, 1823 in Cologne . By 1830 the name of the comitees was entrusted probably on the move, calling it "Rose Monday", at least formed from the name Rose Sunday (Laetare) the designation for the middle Sunday of Lent Carnival Monday for the middle day of the carnival out.

From Cologne, the Rose Monday date soon spread throughout the entire German carnival tradition. The first Rose Monday procession in Düsseldorf started on February 14, 1825, in Bonn in 1828, and the first Rose Monday procession in Mainz went on February 26, 1838 and was still referred to as the “mask procession”. In 1991 the Rose Monday procession was canceled in many places due to the escalation of the Second Gulf War , for example in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Mainz. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany , all Rose Monday parades across Germany were canceled in 2021.

Events

The date of Rose Monday is always 48 days before Easter Sunday and, as with many Christian days that have a special function in the liturgical year , is calculated according to the Easter formula of the movable Easter Sunday.

Frequency of appointments

  • From 1900 to 2009 Rose Monday fell nine times on February 11th, 15th, 23rd or 27th.
  • The rarest of all, namely only once, during this time, Rose Monday fell on the 3rd, 4th (2008, shortest session for 95 years and for the next 152 years) and 5th February, followed by the double occurrence of the 7th and 8th . March.
  • The leap day on February 29 was twice Rose Monday.
  • The earliest possible date, February 2, last fell on a Rose Monday in 1818. The next time it will be in 2285.
  • The earliest date in the 20th century was February 3rd in 1913. The next time it will be in 2183.
  • The latest possible date is March 8th, the last time in 1943, the next time in 2038.

next meetings

The next dates are listed here, other dates can be found on the Internet address listed as individual evidence.

  • 2022: February 28th
  • 2023: February 20th
  • 2024: February 12th
  • 2025: 0March 3rd
  • 2026: February 16
  • 2027: 0February 8th
  • 2028: February 28
  • 2029: February 12th
  • 2030: 0March 4th
  • 2031: February 24th
  • 2032: 0February 9
  • 2033: February 28
  • 2034: February 20th
  • 2035: 0February 5th
  • 2036: February 25th

Rose Monday song

The evergreen Am Rosenmontag I am born has been around since 1969 , composed by Charly Niessen , sung by Margit Sponheimer .

Web links

Wiktionary: Rosenmontag  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Commons : Shrove Monday  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andre Hünseler: Where does the Cologne Carnival come from? In: KölnTourismus.de. Archived from the original on July 17, 2017 ; accessed on November 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Background - When Rose Monday was Rose Sunday. In: sueddeutsche.de . February 19, 2007, archived from the original on December 13, 2009 ; accessed on November 26, 2018 .
  3. ^ Gerhard Truig: German dictionary. 1968, col. 2968
  4. ↑ When is the carnival website to calculate future carnival dates (service page Carnival of the Kreissparkasse Köln)
  5. ↑ Margit Sponheimer - Two Grenadiers / I was born on Shrove Monday at Discogs (English)