Live view from the Marienplatz webcam

[Schotte 1,401]

What's happening on Marienplatz right now?

 

 

Link: Munich webcams

[Schotte 1,401]

... and they've all gone again.

[Lupo 42]

You´re not imagining things. I was passing through Marienplatz last night and saw the group as well. Looked like a student group (but all dressed up in some kind of traditional garb), they played good music. I saw their "leader" make a speech with a champagne glass in his hand...was in a hurry so don´t know what it was all about either.

[Schotte 1,401]

is there always something going on there!?

 

[eurovol 110]

Short answer: pretty much, yes.

[Schotte 1,401]

its the same sort of formation as the previous picture. baffling.

[quarblotz 1]

well, that last picture was definitely the schäfflertanz -- i was there. but there wasn't one scheduled on MP at the time that first shot was taken...

[Schotte 1,401]

what is the dance? i have never heard of it. doesnt seem to be happening for long when it does happen though.

[quarblotz 1]

the coopers dance every seven years to keep away the plague, as memorialized in the bottom half of the glockenspiel on marienplatz. there's a thread from earlier linking to the schedule:

 

Schäfflertanz thread

[Schotte 1,401]

poor webcam!

 

[Lupo 42]

Now that´s how I always imagined Winter in Germany would be like.

[Schotte 1,401]

I can't believe how many people are in Marienplatz right now, anyone been down today?

 

[Darkknight 2,341]

Don't Know, Whay don't you do down there and report back with what you find :D

[eurovol 110]

I'll bet ya that there all wearing costumes and made up faces. Hint hint ;)

[Schotte 1,401]

oh come on i know why they are there!!! just saying there must be thousands and they don't look to be doing much apart from standing there!

[roots 56]

People usually don't walk around in still pictures :P

[Showem 862]

I'll tell you what they were doing:

Standing around,

drinking prosecco, beer and schnaps,

listening to music,

singing to music,

struggling through the crowds to find their friends,

wondering where they could go to take a pee.

[Schotte 1,401]

and whats happening now? is this the line for Schuster?!?!?!?!?

 

or just because its nice and sunny out?

 

[roots 56]

Just go there and find out schotte. Its a nice day. Go out and enjoy :)

[Schotte 1,401]

work to do.

 

edit: actually fcuk that. im out. :)