The island's mayor, Jürgen Akkermann, said that the violence had developed from “a tradition of a kind of chastisement” of people who ... his back on the Borkum island in Germany, Thursday ...

Instead, it went on a six-month voyage across the English Channel and North Sea, eventually settling on the shores of Borkum ... 450 miles away in a beach side house in Germany,” Worthing ...

is set to be outlawed on the German island of Borkum this year. Here's what you need to know about the controversial custom. Germany is known for its charming and sometimes outlandish Christmas ...

A centuries-old tradition in Germany's Borkum in which young men hit women on the buttocks with a cow horn during the Klaasohm festival will be discontinued. Most people in Germany associate the ...