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
Pentecost (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.
Pentecost (end)
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Tuesday June 7, 2022
School holidays :
Duisburg Marathon
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Sunday June 12, 2022
Sports events : Www.rhein-ruhr-marathon.de/ 2022 edition confirmed
Essen Ruhr Marathon
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Sunday June 12, 2022
Sports events : Https://www.rhein-ruhr-marathon.de/ 2022 edition confirmed
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.
Spoga Cologne
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Sunday June 19, 2022
Tradeshows : Lasts 3 days
www.spoga-cologne.com/ 2022 edition confirmed
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday June 24, 2022
School holidays :
Summer holiday (end)
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Wednesday August 10, 2022
School holidays :
P-Weg-Marathon
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Saturday September 3, 2022
Sports events : Www.p-weg.de/ 2022 edition confirmed
Münster Marathon
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Saturday September 10, 2022
Sports events : Www.volksbank-muenster-marathon.de 2022 edition confirmed
Bonn Marathon
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Sunday September 11, 2022
Sports events : Www.deutschepost-marathonbonn.de/ 2022 edition confirmed
Fall holiday (beginning)
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Friday September 30, 2022
School holidays :
Cologne Marathon
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Sunday October 2, 2022
Sports events : Www.koeln-marathon.de/ 2022 edition confirmed
National Day
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Monday October 3, 2022
Secular holiday : Tag der Einheit (Day of Unity)
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
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
ComPaMED
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Monday November 14, 2022
Tradeshows : Lasts 4 days -
www.compamed.de in Düsseldorf 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 :