Cooks’ Ball in Munich

Once a year, around six o’ clock in the morning, the citizens of Munich gather around the Chinese Tower in Munich’s Englischer Garten Park to participate at the traditional Kocherlball (“Cooks’ Ball”).

In the 19th century the city’s servants, cooks, nannies and other minions would get up early to meet and dance around the tower from about 5am to 8am, the only time they could get out of work because their masters were sleeping.

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