After a two-year Corona break, more than half a million people are expected in Mainz for today’s Shrove Monday procession. The train started punctually at 11:11 a.m.
As the first train number, the Mainzer sat down in sunny weather
Knight’s guild on the move. The motto this year is: “In Mainz, Fastnacht stands for peace, freedom, tolerance!” The train travels a distance of seven kilometers through the center of Mainz. There are more than 9,000 active people, including guardsmen, musicians, flag bearers and swashbucklers.
The Mainz Rose Monday procession from 12:15 p.m. in the live stream
Motive car with political themes
The floats of the Mainz Carneval Association MCV are also part of the political-satirical Fastnacht. “F *** you Putin,” says a sunflower with a Ukrainian flag, which opposes a tank, another car shows Putin oversized, blowing a sharp easterly wind at EU Commission President von der Leyen.
The Federal Chancellor is depicted as a phrase-mongering robot called “Scholzomat”. The German shepherd fetches the ship Cosco from the Chinese president and has no idea that he is to be slaughtered – an allusion to the planned entry of the Chinese state-owned company Cosco in the port of Hamburg.
Motif “The Walking Dead”: Zombie Trump comes out of his grave to take part in the election campaign in the USA again.
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Sarina Fischer
137 train numbers and 1,000 police officers
There are 137 train numbers in total. Including five that can come up with superlatives. According to the police, more than 1,000 officers in uniform and civilians ensure security during the Shrove Monday procession.
According to the Federal Police, many visitors arrived by train at the Mainz train stations in the morning. So far, the arrival traffic has run without problems.