Peoria Oktoberfest
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Fri, Sep 15 – Sun, Sep 17, 2023
Peoria Riverfront , Peoria, IL 61602
Oktoberfest is the world’s longest-running wedding celebration. It began with the Royal Wedding on 12 October 1810.
Crown Prince Ludwig, later to become King Ludwig I, was married to Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen on 12 October 1810. The citizens of Munich were invited to attend the festivities held on the fields in front of the city gates to celebrate the happy royal event. The fields were renamed Theresienwiese (“Theres’a Fields”) to honor the Crown Princess, although the locals have since abbreviated the name simply to “Wiesn”. The closing ceremony at the Theresienwiese included a horse race and a veritable feast for the whole of Bavaria; the following year the decision to repeat the horse races gave rise to the origin of the Oktoberfest tradition. It is here that the history of the Oktoberfest tradition begins, an annual celebration that since then, punctuates the life of Munich and Germany, as a permanent and punctual fixture, except on 24 occasions when it was cancelled due to wars or epidemics.
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