Germany (Bavaria) : complete schedule of public and bank holidays, closure of banks and stock exchanges, school vacations, trade fairs, cultural and sporting events, festivals, carnivals, election during the next 3 months
Labor Day/May Day
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Sunday May 1, 2022
Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
Ascension holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday May 25, 2022
School holidays :
Ascension
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Thursday May 26, 2022
Catholic or protestant : Forty days after Easter, always on a Thursday. After his resurrection, Jesus appeared before his disciples and gathered them to tell them to baptize and spread the good word. He then ascended to heaven on a cloud.
Regensburg Marathon
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Saturday May 28, 2022
Sports events : Www.regensburg-marathon.de/ 2022 edition confirmed
Wurzburg Marathon
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Sunday May 29, 2022
Sports events : Www.wuerzburg-marathon.de/ 2022 edition confirmed
Ascension holiday (end)
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Monday May 30, 2022
School holidays :
IFAT
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Monday May 30, 2022
Tradeshows : Lasts 5 days - in Munich Environment, Waste Water and Waste Disposal 2022 edition CONFIRMED (provided the Covid epidemics is stopped)
Pentecost holiday (beginning)
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Friday June 3, 2022
School holidays :
Whit Monday
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Monday June 6, 2022
Catholic or protestant : Seven weeks after Easter Monday -Marking the day the Holy Spirit entered the disciples left behind and the beginning of their ministry.
Corpus Christi
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Thursday June 16, 2022
Catholic : For six hundred years that feast was observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, but in 1970 the new Roman Missal, while retaining that day for some countries, provided that in others the feast be observed on the Sunday after Trinity.
Commemorates the Last supper. Pope Urban IV ordered the observance of such a feast in 1264, and in the following century it became universal in the Western Church.
Pentecost holiday (end)
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Monday June 20, 2022
School holidays :
Bayreuther Festspiele
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Saturday July 23, 2022
Culture : Www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/ Opera - Lasts 4 weeks 2022 edition NOT confirmed
Nuremberg BIOFACH
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Tuesday July 26, 2022
Tradeshows : Lasts 4 days - www.biofach.de/en/
organic food 2023 edition confirmed
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday July 29, 2022
School holidays :
Assumption
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Monday August 15, 2022
Catholic : The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is the dogma so far defined by the Church. The definition was made by Pope Pius XII on 1st November 1950. The Pope proclaimed: We pronounce, declare and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory. Bavaria and Saarland only
IAA Mobility
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Tuesday September 6, 2022
Tradeshows : Https://www.iaa.de/en/mobility lasts 5 days -- in Munich
EXPO REAL
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Monday September 12, 2022
Tradeshows : Lasts 3 days -
www.exporeal.net/
International Commercial Property Exposition in Munich 2022 edition CONFIRMED
Drinktec
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Monday September 12, 2022
Tradeshows : Https://www.drinktec.com/en/ lasts 6 days - in Munich
2022 edition CONFIRMED
Summer holiday (end)
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Tuesday September 13, 2022
School holidays :
Munich Oktoberfest (beginning) - not a bank holiday
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Saturday September 17, 2022
Culture : Www.oktoberfest.de
IAA Mobility
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Tuesday September 20, 2022
Tradeshows : Https://www.iaa.de lasts 4 days - in Munich 2022 edition confirmed
Munich Oktoberfest (end) - not a bank holiday
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Sunday October 2, 2022
Culture :
National Day
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Monday October 3, 2022
Secular holiday : Tag der Einheit (Day of Unity)
Munich Marathon
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Sunday October 9, 2022
Sports events : Www.muenchenmarathon.de/ 2022 edition confirmed
All Saints - (beginning)
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Friday October 28, 2022
School holidays :
All Saints' Day
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Tuesday November 1, 2022
Catholic : The day now honors all saints of the church, even those not known by name. The first All Saints' Day occurred on May 13, 609 (C.E.) when Pope Boniface IV accepted the Pantheon as a gift from the Emperor Phocas. Boniface dedicated it as the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda in honor of the Blessed Virgin and all martyrs. During Pope Gregory III's reign (731-741), the festival was expanded to include all saints and a chapel in St. Peter's church was dedicated accordingly. Pope Gregory IV officially designated the day in 837. Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Nordrhein-Westfahlen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland only
All Saints (end)
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Monday November 7, 2022
School holidays :
Electronica
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Tuesday November 8, 2022
Tradeshows : Lasts 4 day -
http://www.messe-muenchen.de
world's largest electronic fair in Munich 2022 edition CONFIRMED (provided the Covid epidemics is stopped)
Repentance Day
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Wednesday November 16, 2022
School holidays :