The Oktoberfest in Munich.

Munich and the Oktoberfest.

The traditional Oktoberfest, where people party like crazy, takes place in Munich every autumn.

Due to the often cool weather in October, the Oktoberfest has always started on the Saturday after 15 September since 1872 and traditionally ends on the 1st Sunday in October.

Your stay at the Freisinger Hof.

The location close to the Oktoberfest.

The Freisinger Hof is the perfect accommodation for your Oktoberfest trip to Munich. Located not far from the Theresienwiese in the greenery of the English Garden, the festival mile can be reached by car in about 25 minutes, by one of the free bicycles in about half an hour, the same time it takes by public transport:

Tram 37 Max-Weber-Platz:

From St. Emmeram
To Arabellapark/Klinikum Bogenhausen

U-Bahn U4 Theresienwiese:

From Arabellapark
Theresienwiese

Around six million visitors come to the Wiesn every year.
The history of the Oktoberfest is over 200 years old.
At the 1st Oktoberfest, King Ludwig of Bavaria married the Princess of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

How it all began in Munich with the Oktoberfest.

Where does the Oktoberfest in Munich originate?

The history of the Oktoberfest is over 200 years old. On October 17, 1810, the first Oktoberfest was celebrated on today's Theresienwiese, albeit on a royal occasion. King Ludwig of Bavaria had married Princess of Saxe-Hildburghausen and this had to be celebrated. After the wedding, the meadow was renamed Theresienwiese in honor of the bride Therese. As the festival was a complete success, it was decided to hold it annually. From 1819 onwards, the city lords of Munich took over the organization of the festival - and it grew in popularity and size from year to year. Finally, in 1881, the first chicken roastery was opened and the "Wiesnhendl" was born.

In 1910, the largest tent at the time, the Bräurosl with 12,000 seats, was ceremoniously opened on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.

In 1950, the Oktoberfest was opened for the first time with the ceremonial tapping of a beer barrel by the then Lord Mayor Thomas Wimmer. Since then, the legendary slogan "O'zapft is" has been the opening slogan of the annual Munich Oktoberfest.

If you travel to Munich from mid-September, you will experience the lifestyle metropolis in full party fever: it's Wies'n time.

Munich Oktoberfest in figures. Data & facts about the Munich Oktoberfest.

Around six million visitors come to the Wiesn every year, with a record number of 7.1 million people attending in 1985.
The largest Wiesn tent has seating for almost 10,000 people, including the beer garden. All tents together hold around 120,000 seats
7.8 million liters of beer were tapped in 2019. There were also 435,000 roast chickens, 125 oxen and 30 calves. Plus 42.5 tons of roasted almonds.
Attentive stewards took almost 97,000 beer mugs from souvenir hunters in the tents and at the exits of the festival grounds.
With up to 9,000 participants and a length of seven kilometers, the march on the first Sunday of Oktoberfest is one of the largest in the world.

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