Miscellaneous Wey parade delights 70,000 carnival fans in Lucerne
The crowds on Schweizerhofquai follow the Wey parade.
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The audience enjoys the many colorful subjects.
Image: Keystone
The crowds on Schweizerhofquai follow the Wey parade.
Image: Keystone
The audience enjoys the many colorful subjects.
Image: Keystone
The parade of the jubilant Wey guild on Güdismonday met with great interest from the carnival crowd. The Lucerne police estimated on Monday that 70,000 people watched the colorful procession through the city in bright sunshine.
03.03.2025, 14:13
03.03.2025, 17:47
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In Lucerne, the carnival started its second round at 6 a.m. on Güdismonday: around 5,000 people took part in the Wey guild's daily vigil, according to Lucerne police. At Kapellplatz, the carnival revellers listened to the Guuggen musicians marching past and tried to catch the oranges thrown into the crowd.
According to the police, around 100,000 carnival revellers were in the city in the afternoon during the Wey parade, 70,000 of whom followed the procession with its 45 official numbers, which made its way from the Luzernerhof across the Seebrücke to the Neustadt. Thanks to the sunny and dry weather, the parade attracted significantly more people than the largely identical Fritschi parade on Dirty Thursday, which was attended by 26,000 people in cloudy weather.
Artificial intelligence as a major theme
The parade kicked off with the frog, the heraldic animal of the Wey guild. This was followed by various floats, individual masks and many Guuggenmusigen with impressive, often gloomy "Grende".
The parade acts created a cheerful atmosphere and spontaneous applause at the roadside, such as the Hügü-Schränzer, who appeared in brightly colored costumes of Globi, Mickey Mouse and other comic and toy characters.
The Wey guild handed out sweet Coke frogs to the youngest members of the audience and gave them the carnival magazine "Knallfrosch". Compared to previous years, there were fewer political themes, but artificial intelligence was a topic for several groups. The Bueri-Chessler presented a robot laboratory on their float.
Güdismontag is the Wey guild's day of honor. The guild is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. It was founded in 1925 because the carnival tradition in the city was in danger of dying out. The business people from the Wey quarter managed to revive the Fifth Season.
Increased security measures
The foolish days have been going on in Lucerne since Dirty Thursday. On both "Komische Frytig" and "Rüüdige Samschtig", carnival revellers celebrated the tradition with great fervor. According to the police, there were up to 60,000 people in the city of Lucerne during the day on Saturday and up to 45,000 on Sunday night.
Thousands also followed the carnival parades in the Lucerne countryside and the surrounding area. The carnival events throughout the canton were "problem-free" and "peaceful", according to the police.
This year, security measures surrounding the carnival were stepped up. Among other things, 70 large sacks filled with earth were placed in the city. They serve as mobile roadblocks. In addition, the flow of people was controlled and monitored with measurements and cameras.
Fasnacht 2025 comes to an end in Lucerne on the night of Ash Wednesday. On Tuesday evening, the Guuggenmusigen will march through the city for the last time on the Monstercorso.
Next year's Lucerne Carnival begins a little earlier than this year, on February 12.
