Charles Festival
The Karlsfest is a city and folk festival that is celebrated every year in Aachen on the last Sunday in January. The festival is named after Charlemagne , who died on January 28, 814 in Aachen.
Celebrations
Liturgical
In Aachen Cathedral , the foundation of which goes back to the Palatine Chapel built under Charlemagne as the spiritual center of his empire and which was the coronation site of 31 Roman-German kings from 936 to 1531 , the day of death is celebrated by the Catholic Church as a local solemn festival.
The Pontifical Mass is usually by a bishop from other European countries, with the participation of the Aachen episcopate and the cathedral chapter celebrated . The homily generally focuses on the idea and memory of a Europe united in Christianity , as Charles strived for with his rule. The knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem of the diocesan commandery Carolus Magnus and the Karlsschützengilde also regularly take part in the service.
The special features of the liturgy include the Charles sequence from the twelfth century, which sounds in a different setting as the final song in the form of the city hymn Urbs Aquensis , the Imperial Laudes , a Latin chant from the Carolingian period in which various saints intercessions for the church are invoked , the German people, the Pope , the Bishop of Aachen and all rulers as well as calls of homage to Christ are presented.
A very similar pontifical mass, the Karlsamt , is held every year on the last Saturday in January in Frankfurt am Main .
Secular celebrations
After the liturgical celebrations, an annual general assembly of the Karlsschützengilde takes place in the coronation hall of the Aachen town hall . The public can visit the town hall free of charge, including the coronation hall, the mayor's office , the white hall, the peace hall, the foremen's kitchen and the foremen's court as well as the entrance hall of the town hall. Only on this occasion can the otherwise hidden rooms be visited. Traditionally, the Karl hard from Aachen's butchers' guild , the nationally known Karl sausage offered a culinary specialty in the form of Mette ends that are made with ingredients that the estates Regulation of Charlemagne , the Capitulare de villis are taken.
background
Charlemagne was founded in 1165 at the instigation of Friedrich Barbarossa with the approval of the antipope Paschal III. canonized by Rainald von Dassel ; however, the canonization of Pope Alexander III. not acknowledged. Since 1176, veneration as blessed has been tolerated: it is officially “permitted, not recognized”; therefore Charles is not listed in the Martyrologium Romanum . Consequently, to this day, by decree of the official church , Karl can only be venerated as a blessed in Aachen and Osnabrück .
See also
Web links
- Karlsfest 2017 on the website of the city of Aachen
- Information on kathnews.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the website of the Aachen city butcher.
- ^ Charlemagne in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints .
- ↑ Vera Schauber, Hanns Michael Schindler: Saints and Patrons' Names in the Course of the Year (updated new edition), Pattloch, Munich 2001, 41.