Parade

The term motorcade ( from Italian corso = run, running track, main road, this in turn from the Latin cursus = run, ride), although derived from horse racing, but says today usually a slow drive several vehicles in a city.

History

Parade called earlier before the 18th century a race rider -less horses as they mainly in Italy took place on streets and squares (see Palio ).

Later the term was a city in decorated carriages and equipages, applied to the slow driving through the main streets mainly at the carnival. This custom, which even Goethe in his Italian travels extensively describes were, in almost all major cities in Italy the main street of the same name. Best known is the parade in Rome. In Goethe puts it: ... drive the carriages gradually in the parade in, in the same order as we have described above, as was the talk of the Sunday and festival day ride, only with the difference that currently the carts which shut down by the Venetian palace on the left side, there where the road the parade stops, turn and once on the other side go up again ...

Parade in the 19th century

In Germany and Austria the 19th century, so-called spring parades in public parks of the capital cities, organized by name in the Vienna Prater and in the Berlin Tiergarten, which showed especially the nobility and the upper classes and was a rule that no ordinary rental car allowed to travel. As in 1856 in Charlottenburg, a reformatory for fallen women was to be built, this prevented an appeal by the Chief of Police, the " Charlottenburg not as much visited amusement suburb of Berlin in the age of parade festivities as the right place for a reformatory " looked.

Flower Parade

Today we denote by motorcade especially those removals in spring with flowers decorated car.

• The bataille des fleurs on the Nice Carnival has been held since 1876 and is the floral floats with the longest tradition
• Situated on the Rose Parade in Pasadena on January 1, held annually since 1890 Tournament of Roses is visited by about 700,000 spectators and broadcast live to several million television viewers in over 50 countries
• The largest flower parade in Europe is held every year on the first Sunday in September in Zundert, Netherlands. Each year, six to eight million dahlias used, the tradition is to be 1936.
• In Legden the first flower parade was held on 3 October 1926 was known as the DahlKiBluko. Since 1960 it takes place every three years, there are about 1.5 million dahlias used.
• The flower parade in Bad Ems has existed since 1964. With over 30 cars and processed more than 1.5 million flowers he is considered the largest rolling flower show in Germany.
• The only cross-border flower parade takes place in Vreden. Since 100 years the Rekkener Blumenkorso club pulls the end of August on the German - Dutch border in the Vredener Kirchdorf Oldenkott.
• In the East Westphalian Levern in the community Stemwede every five years in mid-August a flower parade. The 20 floats are thereby mostly decorated with dahlias flowers.
• Also, the bi -annual flower parade in the North Hessian town of Bad Wildungen attracts one of the largest festivals in the spa town of up to 20,000 visitors.
• In Bad Aussee Styria since 1960 the Daffodil Festival with flower parade takes place.
• The flower parade in Seefeld in Tirol has been around since 1969.
• In the Belgian North Sea resort of Blankenberge and Loenhout, in Eastbelgian Hergenrath there are also flower parades.
• In the Netherlands, except in Zundert about 30 flower parades known, including in Vollenhove St Jansklooster, Lichtenvoorde, Valkenswaard and in Noordwijk, which runs along the Keukenhof.

Motorcade

The motorcade refers to the practice, one behind the other with several cars honking to drive through mostly inner-city streets. Originally, this custom was a southern form of spontaneous celebration and Jubilierens, for example, after a victory of a sports team or a wedding reception. In particular, in national and international competitions motorcades come about often. They were introduced in Germany and other Central European countries of so-called "guest workers" from Greece, Italy, Spain, Turkey and Kosovo / Albania and are increasingly popular amongst local fans.

In order to generate attention, honk, passenger types often from car windows and cheer passersby. At weddings are on the car in which the couple is sitting, usually attached tin cans. In sporting victories are national flags or emblems club swung out of the windows. Although such a parade is considered as a demonstration that regulatory measures such registration is subject, etc., this is usually tolerated by the authorities. The legal situation is unclear, however, still is 30 prohibited in the use of vehicles unnecessary noise and useless back and forth Traffic Regulations, §.

Further, there are also parades with other vehicles, eg with bicycles, roller skates or boats and ships on the water.

Vehicle motorcades also be used as a form of demonstration. In this case, it is often also authorized events. So protested in July 2005 in Frankfurt / Main, the taxi driver with a parade through the streets of the city to draw attention to a court case against a raid fatal to a colleague. In April 2007, several thousand demonstrated vintage and classic drivers in various German cities with motorcades against threatened by the fine regulation bans for their vehicles.