Cologne Carnival: "Knollendorf greets Cologne"

This was not the main carnival procession but a Sunday procession, of which there were perhaps several others taking place in the city.

The banner is of course unhelpful: there was and is no such physical place as Knollendorf (literally: tuber-village). However, there are the Knollendorfer, a group dedicated to to upholding Cologne's traditions, including the town's Karneval and its dialect Kölsch, which is incomprehensible to anyone from other parts of Germany.

Kölsch beer, on the other hand, is instantly comprehensible to one and all.

I suspect that the Knolle in Knollendorf is no more than a variant of the High German name for Cologne: Köln, which can also be written as Koeln.


PHOTOGRAPHIC INFO:
Camera: Minolta M1 (35mm film)
Kodachrome slide: 1/125th second, f/2.8
The film speed would have been either 25 or 64 ASA/ISO.

[this blip created in April 2014]