Be someone else, be allowed to say everything, step out of line, be courageous and exuberant: Carnival strengthens your inner balance. After a two-year Corona break, the big carnival parade in Villach will take place again on Saturday. The “Krone” has photos and videos!
“Lei, Lei!” resounds through the streets and alleyways of the Draustadt: Carnival is finally being celebrated again in Villach. In addition to thousands of colorfully disguised fools, some top candidates have also gathered – the election campaign continues. Freedom of fools before Lent Carnival! The term promises exuberant hustle and bustle. The Middle High German word “vaschanc” became our carnival. Under the name “vaschanc”, the guilds served a drink before the start of Lent, along with plenty of food. The much younger term carnival is derived from Latin and means something like “take away meat” – thus referring to Lent. Even the ancient Romans celebrated a festival of the upside down world: At the Saturnalia in December, even slaves got an extra ration of wine, were served by their masters, could express their opinions with impunity. They enjoyed the freedom of fools – as later in the medieval courts of fools and today in the carnival sessions. “The wrong world, which is also evident in the costumes, we also have in the now rare courts of pig skulls: the theft of a pig skull is tried, the perpetrators are the judges , the victims and even the witnesses are punished,” explains cultural scientist Heimo Schinnerl, who himself has experience as a judge and pig skull thief. “Fasching is not a Christian festival, but the strongholds of carnival are in Catholic areas,” says Schinnerl. Science cannot prove that carnival comes from a pagan expulsion of winter. Liebenfels: February 19, from 2 p.m. Ferlach: February 19, from 12.30 p.m. in front of the workers’ hostel, followed by a carnival party on the main square; from 2.30 p.m. children’s carnival in the town hall of St. Georgen im Lavanttal: 19.2., 11.30 a.m. collection at the coffee shop or Libiseller car park, from 1 p.m. parade through the village, then children’s masked ball in the culture hall Weißbriach in the Gitschtal: 19.2., 2 p.m. from the Santners sawmill Heirs, then fooling around in the Kultursaal Klagenfurt: February 21, 2:15 p.m. from the Waidmannsdorf community center St. Veit: February 21, from 1:30 p.m. Feldkirchen: February 21, 2 p.m. Gmünd: February 21, from 2 p.m. from the suburbs the main square; from 3 p.m. Kindergschnas in the town hall, from 6.30 p.m. Gmündner Gschnas Arnoldstein: 21.2., from 3 p.m. at the Arnoldstein train station through Arnoldstein and Gailitz to the Völkermarkt culture house: 21.2., from 1.30 p.m., main square Bärentrieb is supposed to end the winter back to the hope of putting a humorous end to winter. The custom attracts spectators to the town of Liebenfels on Sunday (2 p.m.). The three “Holy Days” of Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday – the term comes from racing and romping – and Shrove Tuesday are the highlight of the carnival. There are large parades in many places (see above). In order to put a clear end to the carnival, it is burned at the end in Klagenfurt. On Wednesday, the church offers a rite that has been documented since the 11th century: a cross of ashes is drawn on the forehead of the faithful. Ash has stood for transience and purification since ancient times. The Carinthian Lenten cloths, which cover the altars until Easter, are unique.
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