Talk:Public holidays in Germany

Chistmas day / Weihnachtstag

December 24 is not a public holiday. Instead December 25 is. --212.66.157.114 (talk) 11:01, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

“Buß- und Bettag” (in November)

Both the EU [1] and the U.S. government [2] translate "Buß- und Bettag" as "Repentance Day", so I've changed the translation to that. —Angr 14:27, 21 November 2006 (UTC)--Schwab7000 (talk) 15:10, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

december 26

december 26 is not Nikolaustag

St. Nikolaus is on December 6th and it's not a public holiday!!! Revision as of 09:50, 28 September 2008 (edit) (undo) 84.164.195.221 (talk) --Schwab7000 (talk) 15:17, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

zweiter weihnachtstfeiertag

december 26 is St.Stephans-Tag, but it's not often called that in Germany. It's usually refered to as Zweiter Weihnachtsfeiertag = Second day of Christmas! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.164.195.221 (talk) 09:50, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

can someone link up Zweiter Weihnachtsfeiertag = Second day of Christmas, St Stephans Day with Boxing Day?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day

References

Perhaps someone can add this reference: The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany: http://www.kmk.org/fileadmin/pdf/Ferienkalender/feiertage.pdf —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.168.65.84 (talk) 12:13, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Notes 4 and 7

There is a note #7 on the chart, but no matching note 7 below. And below there is a note #4 that does not appear in the Chart. Vettrock (talk) 21:25, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

‘silence holidays’

It says:

Good Friday and Holy Saturday are silence holidays by law.

Holy Saturday (Karsamstag) is not a holiday, shops are open. There are two Sundays in late autumn that are ‘silence holidays by law’, too. It is Volkstrauertag (national day of mourning) and Totensonntag (Sunday of the Dead).
see:“Tanzverbot” on “Stille_Tage” which means that any (public) event with dancing is prohibited on these days (discos, clubs etc.).--Schwab7000 (talk) 15:32, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Hope it's clear now. Actually the concepts of a public holiday and a silent day are distinct ones, even though people actually do speak of holidays in either case...--131.159.0.47 (talk) 19:33, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

split article?

should 'Public holidays in the former German Democratic Republic' be a seperate article ? there is a seperate article for holidays in the nazi era — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.172.96.95 (talk) 09:20, 19 October 2014 (UTC)