Fasnacht: Basel's "three most beautiful days"
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Fasnacht: Basel's "three most beautiful days"
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#3It's fascinating to see how deeply embedded Fasnacht is in the local culture, especially when you live in the heart of it. My kids are always talking about it all year round, eager to play the drum themselves. You can hear the music of drums and pipes weekly in the evening as people practice, preparing for those three days. It’s truly a life-long commitment for many and absolutely beautiful when it starts out of nothing at 4‘o clock in the night and vanishes as fast three days later.
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#4I think some of these traditions also persist in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Dutch serve a doughnut called a fastnacht on Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras/the day before Ash Wednesday, and Basel's Fasnacht and the Philadelphia mummers parade almost certainly share some cultural DNA.
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#5I highly recommend the Morgenstreich. It's really an amazing experience and it's awesome to think you are sharing the same experience as people continued to do for hundreds of years.
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#6another strange but fascinating thing.. burning the nubbel
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#7I think some of these traditions also persist in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Dutch serve a doughnut called a fastnacht on Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras/the day before Ash Wednesday, and Basel's Fasnacht and the Philadelphia mummers parade almost certainly share some cultural DNA.
>The Pennsylvania Dutch serve a doughnut called a fastnacht
In Swabia it's called a Fasnetsküchle. Maybe the Küchle part got dropped (little cake).
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#8I lived in Switzerland for a few years as a kid and used to love Schaffhausen's Fasnacht. I'd actually totally forgotten about it until seeing this post!
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#9another strange but fascinating thing.. burning the nubbel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnPbquIyfjg
And don't forget the Chienbäse, which happens in nearby Liestal: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chienb%C3%A4se. This is truly nuts to see in-person.
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#10https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Basel
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