Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) : 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
Date | Name | Kind | More |
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Friday September 30, 2022 | Fall holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Monday October 17, 2022 | Fall holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Tuesday October 18, 2022 | Anuga | Tradeshows | |
Tuesday October 18, 2022 | INTERGEO | Tradeshows | |
Thursday December 22, 2022 | Christmas holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Sunday December 25, 2022 | Christmas Day | Catholic or protestant | |
Monday December 26, 2022 | 2nd Christmas Day | Secular holiday | |
Sunday January 1, 2023 | New Year's Day | Secular holiday | |
Monday January 9, 2023 | Christmas holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Monday January 16, 2023 | IMM Cologne | Tradeshows | |
Thursday February 16, 2023 | Carnival (during 5 days from this date on) | Events, celebrations... | |
Sunday February 19, 2023 | Shrove Monday | Events, celebrations... | |
Monday February 20, 2023 | Carnival | Events, celebrations... | |
Sunday February 26, 2023 | Euroshop | Tradeshows | |
Fall holiday (beginning)
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Friday September 30, 2022
School holidays :
Fall holiday (end)
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Monday October 17, 2022
School holidays :
Anuga
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Tuesday October 18, 2022
Tradeshows : Lasts 4 days,
www.anuga.com/ in Cologne 2022 edition CONFIRMED
INTERGEO
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Tuesday October 18, 2022
Tradeshows : Lasts 3 days -
Geoinformation
www.intergeo.de/ in Essen 2022 edition CONFIRMED
Christmas holiday (beginning)
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Thursday December 22, 2022
School holidays :
Christmas Day
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Sunday December 25, 2022
Catholic or protestant : Since pre-historic times in Europe, festivities (bonfires, offrerings) were marking the beginning of longer hours of daylight with fires and ritual. The Roman festival of Saturnalia lasted several days in December (gambling and offerings). Germanic tribes also celebrated mid-winter (drinking and rituals). The Bulgarian (with Koleduvane) and the Polish (with Gwiazdka) perpetuate this tradition. Jesus of Nazareth was probably born in springtime (Reformists favour autumn). But in the 4th century, December 25th was chosen for the celebration of his birth by Pope Julius I (Bishop Liberus is also mentioned in 354 A.D.). Thus, a Christian element was introduced in the long-established mid-winter festivals. Before 1582, the Papal States and other Italian city states celebrated New Years Day on Christmas Day.
2nd Christmas Day
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Monday December 26, 2022
Secular holiday :
New Year's Day
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Sunday January 1, 2023
Secular holiday : The world's most widely celebrated holiday, New Years was set on January 1 by Julius Caesar because that was the date the Roman consuls took over their duties. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Christmas holiday (end)
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Monday January 9, 2023
School holidays : Www.ferien-in-nrw.de
calendar gazetted by the Ministry of Education
all study programs are aligned with the requirements of the Bologna Process
PISA ranking (average 493): 509 (among the 15 best WW)
school day duration: 5:30 hours
Schooling is mandatory till age 16
number of instructional hours per year in lower secondary education: 752
Usually no school on Saturday
No uniform required
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Dates confirmed till May 2024
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IMM Cologne
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Monday January 16, 2023
Tradeshows : Www.imm-cologne.com/ lasts one week - 2023 edition confirmed
Carnival (during 5 days from this date on)
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Thursday February 16, 2023
Culture : In Cologne, Crazy Days have been prepared since November. People wear costumes. Girls try to cut men's neckties.
A second carnival is dedicated to ghosts and ends with the burning of Nubbel , a straw figure. In Cologne only
Shrove Monday
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Sunday February 19, 2023
Culture : 'Rosenmontag' is celebrated in the carnival strongholds of Germany (Hochburgen), East Belgium, but also Austria and some cantons of Switzerland,
Carnival
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Monday February 20, 2023
Culture : During one week (starting with the date indicated), there are carnivals in several towns and regions in Germany (Catholic regions). For business, avoid the Thursday (in Cologne, Dusseldorf, Bavaria and Baden-Württenberg). and the Monday (in Bonn, Cologne and Dusseldorf. The days of Carnival (the week, which ends with Ash Wednesday) are not offical holidays. Only Carnival Monday and Shrove Tuesday are de-facto -holidays in the "strongholds" of Carnival (Cologne, Düsseldorf, Mainz and Aachen - but also in several townships in the "western" states), because of the traditional Carnival-Processions.
Euroshop
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Sunday February 26, 2023
Tradeshows : Https://www.euroshop-tradefair.com/ lasts 5 days in Düsseldorf 2023 edition confirmed