Happy people train
The procession of happy people in Cottbus is the largest carnival parade in the new federal states and the highlight of the Cottbus carnival.
development
The Cottbus carnival was long characterized by the Sorbian carnival Zapust and the Rhinelanders who moved there .
On February 15, 1954, a large Rose Monday procession passed through Cottbus. This was repeated in the following year. However, the GDR forbade the move the next year. In 1989, after a long break in Cottbus, there was another major carnival parade for the first time. Today around 100,000 spectators visit the parade. The largest move in East Germany is broadcast live on the television station RBB . In 2014 it took place for the 23rd time since the new beginning of the carnival in Lusatia, over 200 groups with around 5000 active participants and 100 carriages had registered for it.
Special incidents
- 2011: During the move, a six-meter-high cable scaffold for the television station RBB fell over. Twelve people were injured.
Web links
- 100,000 guests to the Cottbus carnival parade. Märkische Oderzeitung
- Happy People's Train 2013. welt.de
Individual evidence
- ^ History of Carnival in the GDR. ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) karneval-lausitz.de
- ↑ at karneval-lausitz.de ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 140 years of carnival in Cottbus. wochenkurier.info
- ↑ Three-year-olds continued in hospital after an accident during a carnival parade / investigation into the cause. pnn.de, accessed on February 27, 2014