Thursday, October 05, 2006
Oktoberfest....
Now that you're all residents in Kitchener-Waterloo you ought to know a bit about the big bavarian festival that's starting up around these parts.
K-W was settled by Germans back in the day and originally held the name "Berlin". The city was renamed Kitchener after World War II... Because of this background our city has celebrated Oktoberfest for many years. Incidentally, we have one of the largest festivals in the world, second only to Munich!
Here's some facts about the german Oktoberfest as found on Wikipedia:
K-W was settled by Germans back in the day and originally held the name "Berlin". The city was renamed Kitchener after World War II... Because of this background our city has celebrated Oktoberfest for many years. Incidentally, we have one of the largest festivals in the world, second only to Munich!
Here's some facts about the german Oktoberfest as found on Wikipedia:
- The first "Oktoberfest" took place on October 12, 1810: For the commemoration of their marriage, Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen...
- 30% of the year's production of beer by Munich breweries will be consumed in the two weeks of Oktoberfest.
- 12,000 People are employed at the Oktoberfest. Of these, 1600 are waitresses.
- There is available seating for 100,000 people.
- Roasted oxen: 88
Sausages: 219,443 pairs
Roast chickens: 459,279
Here in K-W our Oktoberfest Mascot is "Onkel Hans"
He is a very happy man...
He has a female counterpart named Tente Gertrude...
I could not find a picture of her...
Anyhow there's lots of crazy stuff going on in the community this week so be sure to check some of it out...
More info can be found on the official website:
# posted by Chantal @ 6:40 PM 
