Public holidays in Germany in 2006
TARGET holidays (applies to all TARGET countries)
1 January New Year's Day
14 April Good Friday
17 April Easter Monday
1 May Labour Day
25 December Christmas Day
26 December Boxing Day
Public holidays throughout the Federal Republic of Germany
1 January New Year's Day
14 April Good Friday
17 April Easter Monday
1 May Labour Day
25 May Ascension Day
5 June Whit Monday
3 October Day of German Unity
25 December Christmas Day
26 December Boxing Day
Public holidays in individual German federal states
6 January Epiphany (Baden-Wrttemberg, Bavaria, Saxony-Anhalt)
15 June Corpus Christi (Baden-Wrttemberg, Bavaria, hesse, North Rhine- Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, some local authorities in Thuringia and Saxony)
15 August Assumption Day (Saarland and some local authorities in Bavaria)
31 October Reformation Day (Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and some local authorities in Thuringia)
1 November All Saints' Day (Bavaria, Baden-Wrttemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland)
16 November Day of Prayer and Repentance (Saxony)
Non-business days of the Deutsche Bundesbank
24 December Christmas Eve
31 December New Year's Eve
At weekends, both TARGET and the Bundesbank's branches are closed.
Source: Bank of Germany http://www.bundesbank.de/