Love Parade 1989 - 2010 Girls

In 2008, the festival took place in Dortmund on 19 July on the Bundesstraße 1 under the motto Highway of Love. The event was planned as a "Love Weekend", with parties throughout the region. For the first time the Turkish electronic scene was represented by its own float, called "Turkish Delights". The official estimate is that 1.6 million visitors attended, which make it the largest parade to date.
The 2009 event, planned for Bochum, was cancelled; a year later, the deaths of twenty attendees at the Duisburg venue prompted the parade's organiser Rainer Schaller to declare an end to the festival. "The Love Parade has always been a peaceful party, but it will forever be overshadowed by the accident, so out of respect for the victims the Love Parade will never take place again," Schaller said. Together with Mayday and Nature One, the parade is one of the oldest and largest festivals of electronic music.