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
Average class size: more than 24
number of instructional hours per year in lower secondary education: 752
Usually no school on Saturday
No uniform required
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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
Easter holiday (beginning)
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Friday March 31, 2023
School holidays :
Good Friday
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Friday April 7, 2023
Catholic or protestant : The First Council of Nicaea (a gathering of bishops in the early days of Christianity) wanted to find a day to commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.
This commemoration had to be linked to Jewish holiday traditions, since the last supper of Christ was believed to be a Jewish Passover meal. But the Jewish calendar is based on lunar and solar cycles, so the Easter celebration had to follow the same calendar.
Easter
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Sunday April 9, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday
Easter Monday
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Monday April 10, 2023
Catholic or protestant : In the year 325, the Council of Nicée determined a date fo Easter. Full Moon would fall the 14th day of a moon month (1). Easter would be marked by the dominical letter(2)and the epactus(3). With the establishment of the equinox ne variatur on March 21, algorithms where elaborated to attribuate a date for Easter whatever the year.
Time between two consecutive new moons: 20 days 12 hours 44 minutes 2.8 - Gives a letter code for the year's calendar Age of the moon on January 1st, minus one unity, 0 being the new moon's age.
Easter holiday (end)
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Monday April 17, 2023
School holidays :
Bonn Marathon
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Sunday April 23, 2023
Sports events : Www.deutschepost-marathonbonn.de/ 2023 edition confirmed
Düsseldorf Marathon
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Sunday April 23, 2023
Sports events : Https://www.metro-marathon.de/ 2023 edition confirmed
Labor Day/May Day
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Monday May 1, 2023
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 .
Interpack
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Thursday May 4, 2023
Tradeshows : Http://www.interpack.com/ lasts 1 week -- in Dûsseldorf 2023 edition confirmed
Ascension holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday May 17, 2023
School holidays :
Ascension
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Thursday May 18, 2023
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.
Ascension holiday (end)
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Monday May 22, 2023
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Pentecost (beginning)
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Friday May 26, 2023
School holidays :
Whit Monday
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Monday May 29, 2023
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.
Pentecost (end)
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Wednesday May 31, 2023
School holidays :
Corpus Christi
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Thursday June 8, 2023
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.
Duisburg Marathon
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Sunday June 11, 2023
Sports events : Www.rhein-ruhr-marathon.de/ 2023 edition confirmed
Essen Ruhr Marathon
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Sunday June 11, 2023
Sports events : Https://www.rhein-ruhr-marathon.de/ 2023 edition confirmed
Spoga Cologne
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Sunday June 18, 2023
Tradeshows : Lasts 3 days
www.spoga-cologne.com/ 2023 edition confirmed
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday June 21, 2023
School holidays :