Germany

Mainz rose Monday parade due to storm canceled

Not a good year for carnival: The season is already short and now even storm front “Ruzica” in between. The revelers in Cologne but don’t want to blow away.

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The decision for the refusal of the Rosenmontagszuges met the Mainzer Carneval-Verein (MCV), the administrative capital of Rhineland-Palatinate and the fire Department together. After the German weather service gusts of the wind of ten predicted to have, is the risk too high to have been, said a spokesman of the MCV. The fire Department informed that it was with wind gusts up to 100 kilometres per hour are to be expected.

Cologne wants to leave

Also in the Rhineland swirling storm front “Ruzica” the plans of the fools mess: In Dusseldorf only on Monday morning about a possible cancellation of the traditional Wagenparade decided. In Cologne, the rose Monday parade on the other hand start – however, under “preventive security measures”, as the organizers inform. Horses and horse-drawn wagons, approximately from the train to be taken out. Large figures, Trageschilder and flags may also not be carried.

Because wrong the Karnevalist – rose Monday parade in Mainz, Germany, 2015

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The Rosenmontagsumzüge in Mainz, Düsseldorf and Cologne are among the largest nationwide. The parades in the three carnival strongholds curls are always hundreds of thousands of people. Düsseldorf already has experience with a weather-related cancellation. 1990 saw the move to Monday is because of a heavy storm, however, was later rescheduled. With 82 days late, marched to the elaborately decorated floats in may by the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital.

Also in Münster, Germany, in Duisburg, a city district in Essen and Hagen in the Sauerland Contact were the trains because of the storm alarm also called off. According to the düsseldorf model think some of the carnival clubs use to Erdsatzveranstaltungen in the spring.

wl/ml (dpa, afp, rtr)