The city has experienced a lot over the years on New Year’s Eve: frivolous sleigh rides, an ambitious Millennium Committee and a terrorist alarm at the main train station. Seven peculiar customs and special events at the turn of the year.
Masked singers and kisses at the intersection
Already in the 18th century, New Year’s Eve was said to have been very busy in Munich – that’s what the SZ author and historian Rudolf Reiser reported a long time ago. On New Year’s Eve, the boys of the nobles paraded through the electoral city as masked New Year’s singers, on horses or just on hobby horses. They recited funny verses and welcomed the New Year with “all sorts of noise.”