For planning purposes, the following is a list of this year’s German holidays:
March 7 — Rose Monday (not a legal holiday)
March 8 — Shrove Tuesday (Fasching — not a legal holiday)
March 9 — Ash Wednesday (not a legal holiday)
April 22 — Good Friday
April 24 and 25 — Easter
May 1 — Labor Day
June 2 —Ascension Day
June 12 and 13 — Pentecost
June 23 — Corpus Christi Day (only an official holiday in the states of Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Hessen, Nordrhein-Westfalen and Sachsen)
Aug. 15 — Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (only in Bavaria and Saarland)
Oct. 3 — Unification Day
Nov. 1 — All Saints Day
Dec. 25 and 26 — Christmas