One of the stubborn stereotypes that Germans hold is not just that they are the only nation that separates its garbage.
According to the legend, only the Germans brake at zebra crossings.
That's nonsense, but in some countries you can actually only make it across the street as a pedestrian if you throw yourself almost face down on the hood of the approaching vehicles.
Zebra crossing performance
German preschool children, on the other hand, are taught in the traffic kindergarten to hold out their hands and look vehicle drivers in the eyes before they start running. Which leads to very cute pantomimes in traffic - until the youngest notices that nobody but them is organizing them, and unfortunately they let it go again.
Yet, as the Beatles showed in August 1969 for “Abbey Road” on what is probably the most famous zebra crossing, hardly anything is as artistically valuable as a zebra crossing performance. In Kassel, Doris Gutermuth has been collecting signs on pedestrian crossings for decades and designs fairy tale motifs in a zebra crossing design. The zebra crossing, which is said to be the abbreviation for “a sign of a particularly considerate driver” in Germany, deserves a public holiday. “The day of the zebra crossing” is celebrated every year on September 1 to commemorate its legal anchoring in 1953, by the German Society for Road Markings. In view of the current desire for marking in German inner cities, we are already looking forward to the day of the solid line and the red cycle path.