2006-10-11 04:49:53 · 8 answers · asked by badboyg29 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
Oktoberfest is a two-week festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria, Germany during late September and early October. It is one of the most famous events in the city and the world's largest fair, with some six million people attending every year. Other cities across the world also hold fairs, modeled after the Munich event, also called Oktoberfest.
The event usually takes place during the 16 days up to and including the first Sunday in October, but if this day is the 1st or 2nd then the festival will go on until the October 3rd (German Unity Day). Thus, the festival is 17 days when the 1st Sunday is October 2nd and 18 days when it is October 1st. The festival is held on an area named the Theresienwiese, often called "d' Wiesn" for short. Beer plays a central role in the fair, with every festival beginning with a keg of beer tapped by the Mayor of Munich who declares "O'zapft is!" (Bavarian for "It's tapped!"). A special Oktoberfest beer is brewed for the occasion, which is slightly darker and stronger, in both taste and alcohol. It is served in a one-liter-tankard called Maß. The first "mass" is served to the Bavarian Minister-President. Only local Munich breweries are allowed to serve this beer in a Bierzelt (beer tent) which is large enough for thousands.
Visitors also consume large quantities of food, most of it traditional hearty fare such as sausage, hendl (chicken), käsespätzle (cheese noodles), and sauerkraut, along with such Bavarian delicacies as roast ox tails.
2006-10-11 05:10:34 · answer #1 · answered by Jim C 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because October weather sucks. We are expecting rain and snow this weekend. October 14th. I'd much rather go to a festival in September where it is still decent weather than stand around and freeze and get wet and have no fun.
2006-10-11 04:57:42 · answer #2 · answered by Zelda 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of the same reason they bring Christmas stuff out in September. To get a head start.
2006-10-11 05:33:11 · answer #3 · answered by Jessie P 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i bear in suggestions from my holiday to germany that it became somewhat drizzaly and riany the entire week, it became on the begining of sept nonetheless, it could have been in basic terms a definite case. attempt finding on google
2016-12-26 16:10:08 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'cause of the better weather in september
2006-10-11 04:53:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have wondered the same thing. Makes you go Hmmmmmmmm!
2006-10-11 04:51:49 · answer #6 · answered by Melissa C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not the month of Oct. that is celebrated, but Saint Oktober whose feast day is in the month of Sept.
2006-10-11 04:53:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
good question let us know what you find out
2006-10-11 04:53:14 · answer #8 · answered by rayleeburchell 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋