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German HolidaysVarious public & national holidays observed in Germany |
| sitesworld.comHoliday | Local Name | Date | BW | BY | BE | BB | HB | HH | HE | MV | NI | NW | RP | SL | SN | ST | SH | TH |
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| New Year's Day | Neujahrstag | 1 January | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Epiphany | Heilige Drei Könige | 6 January | • | • | • | |||||||||||||
| Good Friday | Karfreitag | Easter Sunday - 2d | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Easter Monday | Ostermontag | Easter Sunday + 1d | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| International Workers' Day | Tag der Arbeit | 1 May | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Ascension Day | Christi Himmelfahrt | Easter Sunday + 39d | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Whit Monday | Pfingstmontag | Easter Sunday + 50d | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Corpus Christi | Fronleichnam | Easter Sunday + 60d | • | • | • | • | • | • | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Peace Festival | Friedensfest | 8 August | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Assumption Day | Mariä Himmelfahrt | 15 August | 5 , 7 | • | ||||||||||||||
| German Unity Day 6 | Tag der Deutschen Einheit | 3 October | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Reformation Day | Reformationstag | 31 October | • | • | • | • | • | |||||||||||
| All Saints | Allerheiligen | 1 November | • | • | • | • | • | |||||||||||
| Day of Repentance and Prayer 4 | Buß- und Bettag | Wed. before 23 November | 7 | • | ||||||||||||||
| Christmas Day | Weihnachtstag | 25 December | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| St Stephen's Day / Boxing Day | Zweiter Weihnachtsfeiertag | 26 December | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Total 8 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 10sitesworld.com | ||
| sitesworld.com• | Public holiday within this state. |
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| 1 | Only in a few Sorbian communities. |
| 2 | Only in the Catholic district of Eichsfeld. |
| 3 | Only in the city of Augsburg. |
| 4 | Public holiday in all states until 1994. The holiday was dropped in exchange for the introduction of nursing care insurance. Saxony is the only state where employers do not have to pay for nursing care insurance, as it was all paid by the employees, so they could keep the holiday. |
| 5 | Only in the approx. 1700 communities with mostly Catholic inhabitants and in the cities of Augsburg and Munich. |
| 6 | National holiday since 1990, commemorating German reunification on that date. Formerly 17 June in West Germany, commemorating the Workers' Uprising of 1953 in East Germany, also known as the "Day of German Unity". East Germany's national day was 7 October, the founding of the state in 1949. |
| 7 | On these days, schools are closed all over the state. |
| 8 | For states where not all holidays are observed consistently, the most widespread combination is given. Bavaria: including Assumption Day, excluding Peace Festival; Saxony and Thuringia: excluding Corpus Christi. sitesworld.com |