Peace Festival in Augsburg, Germany
Peace Festival in Augsburg, Germany is held on August 8. This event in the first decade of the month August is annual. 
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The Peace Festival in Augsburg on August 8 has been Germany’s only municipal public holiday since 1950. Also known as the “Augsburg High Peace Festival,” this annual festival is only celebrated in Augsburg, a city with Roman Catholic roots that once forbid its citizens the right to practice the Christian faith as Protestants.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Memorial Day on July 20, 1944 in Germany on July 20 (this was one of the most important attempts of resistance during the period of National Socialism by the nobility and the administration);
Sons and Daughters Day in Germany on August 11 (The Der Tag der Söhne und Töchter a family holiday and a good time to spend time together);
Memorial Day on the tragedy of the Berlin Wall in Germany on August 13 (its construction was completed in 1961);
Feast day of the Assumption of Mary on August 15 (Christian feast day, one of the Catholic holy days of obligation a public holiday in Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malta, Mauritius, Monaco, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu);
World Peace Day in Germany on September 1 (since 1966);
Day of the Homeland in Germany on September 1 (Tag der Heimat);
National Coffee Day in Germany on September 7 (Celebrated on the first Saturday in September)
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