Bavaria: World's Largest Folk Festival and Munich Terminal

After a two-year pandemic break, the Oktoberfest starts. The fest attracts thousands and thousands of people in Munich from September 17 to October 3, 2022.

Around six millions of visitors from all over the world flock to the festival in the city center every September to polish off beer from steins, roast chicken and other. In any case, it is the largest public festival in the world and definitely a gigantic battle of materials that is meticulously measured statistically. Here's what you need to know about the Oktoberfest.

Since 1810, there has been an annual celebration at Theresienwiese in Munich. The first occasion for the Oktoberfest was the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria and Princess Therese. As part of the festivities, a horse race was held on the meadow at Sendlinger Berg (today: Theresienwiese and Theresienhöhe), where the ordinary people were also allowed to attend. Beer and wine were served to the guests on the grandstand - the origin of the Oktoberfest was born.

The last two years have not been easy for fans of the Oktoberfest: For two years in a row, the festival was cancelled due to Covid-19. That the Oktoberfest does not take place is rather the exception: Only because of the largest folk festival in the world has been canceled so far, a total of 26 times until 2021.

A couple of important facts：

• The record of female waiter can carry up to 19 beer mugs at once – that's 45kg!

• 7,100,000 visitors attended the festival in the record year of 1985.

• 448,000,000 euros of total revenue was generated at the festival in 2019. The hotel overnight stays, train tickets and cab rides are not counted there.

• 7,850,000 liters were served at the past Oktoberfest 2019. With that much beer, roughly speaking, you could possibly get 600,000 elephants drunk.

Munich is also famous in the logistics and forwarding industry because of its terminal.

In September 1992, the Munich East Terminal was put into operation as a double-module facility. Due to its geographical location, Munich has always had a significant strategic importance on the north-south axis as a gateway terminal. 

Loading units from all over Germany and the neighboring states run toward Munich in feeder trains, are sorted here and reloaded onto existing connections to Italy and vice versa. The share of these shipments here accounts for about 25% of total rail inbound and outbound shipments.

Furthermore, Munich is interesting for seaport-hinterland traffic. The terminal has a direct rail link to the main line in all directions.