Tens of thousands of people in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Mainz celebrated the start of the Rhenish street carnival. The hustle and bustle began at exactly 11:11 a.m.
in the carnival strongholds. This time it was a very special women's carnival in Bonn-Beuel, where the 200th anniversary of the so-called washerwomen's uprising was celebrated. In Bonn, every year since 1958, the Beuel women have named a representative from their own ranks, the laundry princess.