By Staff
Trend Magazine Online™
Re-published from a previous edition with updates!
Trend Magazine Online™
Re-published from a previous edition with updates!
It is that time of the year again when some of us reluctantly have to say goodbye to warm summer nights, trips to
the beach, family reunions, cook outs, and road trips. It is, however, time to begin to buckle down for what may or not be a long and frosty winter filled with ski trips, snow men, icy roads, and cancellations. Some, however, choose to head overseas to the olde country for the fall's most enduring and most popular festival - Oktoberfest - to usher in Jack Frost with a Bavarian keg, bratwurst, and lots of umm papa.
This annual German festival traditionally starts the third weekend in September and ends the first Sunday in October. Oktoberfest began with the royal wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig (Later King Ludwig) on October 12, 1810, to Princess Therese of Saxony- Hildburghausen. All citizens of Munich, Germany, were invited to attend the festivities surrounding the royal wedding on the fields in front of the city's gates. As a result, those fields were renamed Theresienwiese ("Theres'a Fields") in honor of the Crown Princess. Today the locals have shortened/abbreviated the same to "Wiesn". The traditional horse races to end the festival came about in its early years as the royal Bavarian family and town were treated to them to close the event. The first Agricultural Show took place the next year, in 1811, and was designed to boost the agricultural industry in Bavaria.
