9 February 2027
Germany
Shrove Tuesday. Veilchendienstag, the last day of the carnival. The Nubbel is burned in Cologne at midnight and the season is over. Carnival is regional: it is strongest in the Rhineland (Cologne, Dusseldorf, Mainz), in Swabian-Alemannic form in the south-west, and as Fasching in Bavaria and Franconia. Much of northern and eastern Germany barely marks it.
Karneval, Fastnacht & Fasching calendar