As of: February 11, 2024, 6:20 p.m
By: Franziska Seliger
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According to the police, around 4,000 onlookers watched the carnival procession yesterday, Sunday, which moved from the Campendonk Museum across the train station and up Bahnhofstrasse to the town square.
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This major carnival event attracted many onlookers this Sunday (February 11th): the Gaudiwurm in Penzberg.
Visitors were offered a colorful mix of topics.
Penzberg
– The tense financial situation of Penzberg and suggestions as to how the misery in the “city of 1001 construction sites” could be brought under control.
Tank busters who give money to the city.
Skilled labor shortages and artificial intelligence: These were some of the topics at Gaudiwurm this Sunday.
According to the police, around 4,000 spectators watched the parade - significantly more than last year.
Admittedly, the weather could have been better.
But who cares about gray clouds and drizzle when there is so much color, imagination and good humor as was shown on the streets of the city center at the Penzberger Gaudiwurm.
Over 300 parade participants
Last year there were nine cars and six foot groups that took part in the parade from the Campendonk Museum down Philippstrasse and across the train station and up Bahnhofstrasse to the town square. This year, according to Benedikt Brennauer, vice-chairman of the Organizing Committee (OK), it was Penzberger Carnival, ten carnival floats and seven foot groups and therefore more than 300 active parade participants.
The 17 topics they presented often had a connection to Penzberg, but were also sometimes just colorful and funny.
This year, too, the CSU-Penzberg stood out thanks to its creativity, which used its float to promote the “Pexit” – Penzberg’s exit from the district.
Why?
Because then everything would be better financially.
As an independent city you could afford a lot more: champagne nozzles for the donkey fountain, a limousine service for the city councilors or a snow-making system for the Berghalde.
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The city's tense budgetary situation was also the topic of the "Penzberg Miteinander" foot group: dressed as a tank cracker, she handed out huge banknotes from her last bank robbery to onlookers - "because Penzberg is bankrupt," as a tank cracker lady explained - or to those who were interested spin a self-made “household wheel of fortune” in order to get the city’s finances under control.
The young knights' chariots and costumes on the topic of artificial intelligence and the shortage of skilled workers were also impressive in their creativity.
The fact that there could also be a certain seriousness behind all the fun was shown, for example, by the fire department's car, which wanted to draw attention to the urgently needed new building for its troops.
The motif of the water rescue service was similarly serious: its members took part in the parade in an inflatable paddling pool, which had to serve as a “training center” for the Penzberg rescue organization due to the lack of an alternative.
There were quite a few fabulous creatures to marvel at at the Penzberg Gaudiwurm.
But giant unicorns and mega dinosaurs were all completely harmless.
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Many participants in the parade were based on this year's carnival motto “A Thousand and One Nights”.
For example, the wrestlers who designed their car as an oriental castle.
Or the ESV, whose members traveled through the city on the Orient Express.
Also striking was the car of the former carnival princes and princesses, who tried to find a new operator for the town hall restaurant with the show “Penzberg sucht den Superwirt”.
There was a lot for the adult spectators to look at during the parade, while the children were able to pick up lots of candies that were thrown from the floats.
According to the police, around 4,000 spectators watched the Gaudiwurm this year;
significantly more than in 2023, when there were around 2,500 onlookers.
According to the police, there were no incidents.