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The 'Cologne carnival' is a carnival that takes place in Cologne every year starting at 11:11 on November 11 culminating in a week-long street festival leading up to Ash Wednesday. The highlight of the carnival is the Rosenmontag which takes place on the Monday. The typical cry during the festival is "Kölle Alaaf!", a Kölsch phrase which can be roughly translated as "Cologne over all!".
Every year there are 3 men (the ''Dreigestirn'') who are granted the titles of ''Jungfrau'', ''Prinz'', and ''Bauer'' (virgin, prince and farmer), who pay a large sum of money for their privileges. The carnival prince is deemed to be the highest representative of the festivities, leading the main parades throughout the week.
The carnival is run by the ''Festkomitee Kölner Karneval'', who were founded in 1823
As there have been continuously more than one million spectators on the streets every year ^[1] Cologne carnival is one of the largest street festivals in Europe.
In recent years it has been bigger than London's Notting Hill Carnival.

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German Carnival Singers And Bands

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1. The organizers put the number around 1.4 million, but authorities give the number "more than one million" German embassy article

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★ Carnival - Cologne`s “fifth season”

★ 2000 years of carnival

★ Carnival in Germany 2007

★ General info

German Carnival Singers And Bands

Alt-Schuss,
Bernd Stelter,
Bläck Fööss,
Brings,
Colör,
Dä Radschläger,
De Fätzer,
De Höhner,
Die 3 Colonias,
De Kläävbotze,
De Klüngelköpp,
Kolibris,
Marie Luise Nikuta,
Paveier,
Paraplüs,
Rabaue,
De Räuber,
Die Rheinländer,
Schmitti,
De Vajabunde,