Düsseldorfer Karneval
However, numerous elements can be found there that still characterise today's carnival, such as the abolition of class distinctions, the increased consumption of alcohol, the loosening of morals and parades in the streets.
[incomprehensible] The Düsseldorf historian Friedrich Lau assumes that carnival was also celebrated in bourgeois circles as early as the 15th century.
Due to the carnival regulations of 1806 issued by King Maximilian I, the jesters had to acquire a "police card" in order to be allowed to be in public dressed up or masked.
After the end of the French period, now under Prussian rule in the Rhineland, the carnival amusements also shifted back to the public streets and squares in the city.
The "Comité", which was responsible for the festivities, was supported by respected citizens of the city, including numerous artists, with the aim of giving the carnival an orderly structure and also making it attractive for the better classes.
After the re-admitted association had begun in 1846 to send artistically designed honorary certificates appointing honorary members to liberal personalities, among others to Ernst Moritz Arndt and to Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, the Prussian Minister of the Interior Ernst von Bodelschwingh-Velmede demanded the renewed prohibition of the association in 1847, whose president in 1846 and 1847 was the painter Adolph Schroedter.
After a masquerade on Burgplatz, the "engagement of Hanswursten to Anna Dorothea Petronella Weichbusen" was celebrated in the evening under Helau und Habuh.
The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III had "carnival merrymaking" generally banned by cabinet order of 31 January 1834.
On this basis, the city of Düsseldorf applied to hold a carnival procession, which was allowed to be held for the first time in 1834 with official approval.
again roll past hundreds of thousands of celebrating guests and "supply" them with "Balkes" or "Kamelle" (sweets and other small gifts) thrown from the floats.
In particular, the reactions of the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, and those of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attracted widespread attention in the press and politics.
The working women celebrate at the workplace and go on a "trophyn" hunt, which consists of cutting off the ties of as many male colleagues as possible.
Many of the jesters can be found in costume and with originally decorated handcarts or bicycle superstructures, which primarily serve as storage space for provisions (beer, spirits, solid food).
[citation needed] In imitation of the Veedelszöch in the Cologne Carnival, smaller parades called Veedelszooch (note the different spelling and pronunciation, see also Benrath line) have also formed on Sunday in some Düsseldorf districts.
There, the completely independent carnival with a prince and princess and a parade with a catchment area in the surrounding towns, which existed even before the municipal reorganisation in 1975, has been preserved.
The latter had its biggest hit with "Die Sterne funkele" (The Stars Sparkle), which was originally the session motto for the Unterbach carnival in 1997.
