2011-05-07

Gengenbach, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Gengenbach is a town in Baden-Wurttemberg and a popular tourist destination on the western edge of the Black Forest with about 11,000 inhabitants. Gengenbach is well known for its traditional Swabian-Alemanic "fasnacht", ("Fasend"), a kind of historically influenced celebration of carnival, where tradition is followed, from wearing costumes with carved wooden masks to clapping with a "Ratsche" (a traditional-classic wooden "sound-producing" toy). Gengenbach also boasts a picturesque, traditional, medieval town centre ("Altstadt").
Source: Wikipedia-08.05.2011
A card from Petra.

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