Children's Costume Parade of the Fairy Tale Prince — Tulip Sunday (Öcher Kengerzoch)

In 2025, the Kengerzoch still paraded on its own route, slightly shorter than the Rose Monday parade route, through the Aachen city center. With the route change in 2026, the organizing committee is responding to years of demands to equate the children's parade with the adult version.

Carnival as UNESCO cultural heritage (listed in Germany since 2014) has its own variant in Aachen with the Öcher Fastelovvend; the Kengerzoch is a central, identity-forming component of this — and an important moment for transmitting carnival tradition to the next generation.