Beer. Brats. Lederhosen. Every September, Munich hosts the largest folk festival in the world. Here’s how the tradition got started.
The original Oktoberfest was indeed held in October. But years of enduring Bavaria's rainy fall weather eventually prompted organizers to move up the start date to September.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.So why is Oktoberfest celebrated in September today? The answer is simple: weather.Meet Me in Munich
By the 1890s, however, city officials began to heed these demands by occasionally moving the date—and by 1905 it appears that the festival. Today, it almost always ends the first Sunday of October.
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