Year after year, the fool's face at the lower gate is the symbol of the carnival season in Dorfen.
At the Hemadlenz, the gate is an important address for the move.
Dorfen
– Finally foolish again: In 2022, the carnival society (KG) Dorfen had decorated the lower gate to the city center with a large carnival mask before the Hemadlenz parade on Nonsensical Thursday, but the corona pandemic did not officially allow the traditional parade.
This was followed by the first Hemadlenzn walk through the city with over 500 Lenzn who didn't want to miss out on the carnival fun.
This year there are no longer any restrictions on moving.
With significantly more joy, several KG members were able to decorate the lower gate on Sunday morning with the support of the Dorfen fire brigade.
It took more than an hour to tinker until the time-honoured gate appeared again as an oversized folly.
After a thorough exterior renovation, the otherwise rather unsightly gate shines in new splendor again.
The foolish goal setting was designed in 1995 by the late Dorfen artist Annemarie Werhazy together with the late KG honorary president Reinhold Kuliga and Anton Mittermaier.
It is thanks to the trio that the lower gate gets a jester's face every year before the Hemadlenz parade.
Alois Freudlsperger and Hans Fischer had built the foolish decoration back then.
For the first time on February 9, 1996, the city gate got the masquerade.
The tower windows hide behind the eyes of the face.
At the Hemadlenz, the lower gate is one of the most important stations, because that's where the sea of white-robed Lenzn stops and, traditionally, the KG princely couple then descends through a gate window via a ladder.
So far, things have “gone very well” in the Dorfen carnival, said KG President Martin Pommer to our newspaper when setting up the gate masquerade.
The most important thing, however, is that after the cancellations of the move in 2021 and 2022, the Hemadlenzen parade on Nonsense Thursday, February 16th, can finally take place again this year.