Events Germany
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1st January: New Year.
Beginning of January: Twelfth Night (Bade-Wurtemberg, Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt).
March-April: Easter.
1st May: Labour Day. Spring festival (most important manifestation of the ex-DRG). Festivities of the Rhine in flames (from Bonn to Linz).
May: Ascension. Dresden Musical Festival.
Mid-May: Cultural Carnival in Berlin (Kreuzberg).
End May: Corpus Christi (Bade-Wurtemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, Rhineland, Sarre).
From June to September: Bonner Sommer. Bonn Summer Festival. Jazz, Rock, Hip hop, classical music and reggae concerts in the market place.
June-July: ?Kissinger Sommer' Festival of Bad Kissingen.
Beginning July: Classic Open Air of Berlin. Classical music concerts in Gendarmenmarkt.
July: Munich Opera Festival.
July-August: Cologne Summer Festival. Musical concerts and shows performed by groups from various parts of the world.
July-August: Bayreuth Festival.
August: Cologne Ringfest. World music festivals in open air.
Beginning August: Berlin International Beer Festival.
15th August: Assumption (Bavaria and Sarre).
End of September: Oktoberfest. Beer Festival in Munich and Stuttgart. Berlin Marathon.
3 October: National Holiday.
31 October: Reform Day (Saxony only).
1st November: All Saints Day (Bade-Wurtemberg, Bavaria, Rhineland, Sarre).
11 November: Start of the carnival season in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Mainz, Bonn, Munich and the Black Forest (at 11:11 exactly).
From end November to end December: Christmas markets in all of the towns. The most popular markets are in Berlin, Dresden, Bremen, Hamburg, Lübeck and Göttingen.
25 and 26 December: Christmas.