Nubbelverbrennen

Region: Koelner Dom
Event begins: 9 months ago: 2024-02-14 10:00 SLT
Added by: MarlonWayne^✦
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The burning of a figure in connection with carnival has been historically documented in the Rhineland since the beginning of the 19th century. The Cologne resident Ernst Weyden writes in his memoirs about the 1820s, in which the carnival events in Cologne were reorganized, that “the carnival was buried” on Ash Wednesday: “With a formal funeral escort, a doll was carried through the city on a bier and burned the same in one place." Weyden relates the event to an "old festival custom that has been preserved i