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Epiphany,
6 January (legal holiday in Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg
and Saxony-Anhalt)
Green
Monday,
Shrovetide
Ash Wednesday
End of the carnival period and
Beginning of Lent until Easter, variable (not public holidays,
but in many communities-working)
Good
Friday, the Friday before Easter (legal holiday in Germany)
Easter
(Easter Sunday and Monday), Easter Sunday is the first Sunday
after the full moon following the vernal equinox (March
21). Therefore, there is no fixed calendar days for the
Passover (public holidays in Germany).
Walpurgisnacht,
the night before 1 May, the day of the Holy Walpurga. According
to ancient beliefs riding on this night the witches on brooms,
and meet the devil worship and dance on the block on the
Brocken in the Harz mountains.
May
Day, 1 May from the Second International based on its founding
congress in 1889 as a "day of struggle of the work"
(public holiday in Germany).
Ascension,
on the 40th Day after Easter (legal holiday in Germany)
Pentecost
(Whit Sunday and Monday), 50 days after Easter (excluding
public holidays in Germany)
Corpus
Christi, the feast of the Catholic Church for the worship
of the Eucharist on the 2nd Thursday after Pentecost. In
2006 it was the 15th June. The celebration was on 15 June
of the year 1279 the first celebration. The old custom to
find a solemn processions (legal holiday in Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg,
Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland
and Thuringia, in some Catholic communities).
Assumption,
15 August (public holiday in the Saarland and in the communities
with predominantly Catholic Bavaria)
Day
of German Unity, 3 October (legal holiday in Germany)
Reformation,
31 October (legal holiday in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western
Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia)
All
Saints Day, 1 November (public holiday in Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg,
North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland)
St.
Martin, 11 November, usually combined with evening lantern
parades by children. St. Martin of Tours, who lived from
316 to 397th
Repentance
Day in November, no fixed date (in Saxony, a legal "unpaid"
holiday)
Christmas
Eve, 24 December, the birth of Christ (legal holiday in
Germany)
1. and
2 Christmas Day, 25 and 26 December
New
Year's Eve, 31 December
New
Year's Day, 1 January (legal holiday in Germany)
Thu
01 January New Year
Tues 06th January Heilige Drei Könige
(only in BW, BY, and ST)
CHF 10 April Good Friday
Mo. 13 April Easter Monday
Fri 01 May May Day
Thu 21st May Ascension
Mon 01 May Whit Monday
Thu 11th Jun Corpus Christi
(only in BW, BY, HE, NRW, RP, SL, and in parts of SN and
TH)
Sat 08th August Peace Festival (in Augsburg)
Sat 15th August Assumption
(only in parts of SL and BY)
Sat 03 October Day of German Unity
Sat 31st October Reformation Day
(only in BB, MV, SN, ST and TH)
Sun 01 November All Saints Day
(only in BW, BY, NRW, RP and SL)
Wed 18th November Prayer Day
(SN only)
25 Francs December 1 Christmas
Sat 26th December 2nd Christmas
Here
you can experience the holidays in the next few years.
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