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For planning purposes, the following is a list of 2016 German holidays:
• Jan. 1: New Year’s
• Jan. 6: Three Kings’ Day — official holiday only in the states of Bavaria, Sachsen and Baden-Wuerttemberg
• Feb. 8: Rose Monday — not a legal holiday
• Feb. 9: Shrove Tuesday — Fasching, not a legal holiday
• Feb. 10: Ash Wednesday — not a legal holiday
• March 25: Good Friday
• March 27 and 28: Easter
• May 1: Labor Day
• May 5: Ascension Day
• May 15 and 16: Pentecost
• May 26: Corpus Christi Day — official holiday only in the states of Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Hessen, Nordrhein-Westfalen and Sachsen
• Aug. 15: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin — official holiday only in the states of Bavaria and Saarland
• Oct. 3: Unification Day
• Nov. 1: All Saints Day
• Dec. 25 and 26: Christmas
