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The passion play staged every ten years in the Bavarian town of Oberammergau holds a particular place among German-speaking passion plays. Tradition has it that in 1633, the inhabitants of Oberammergau vowed to stage a passion play every ten years if the plague epidemic raging at the time were to spread no further.
Oct 16, 2017 · It nestles into one of the most stunning, unspoilt regions in Germany: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria. The imposing Bavarian Alps towers over the adorable gabled houses of Oberammergau. 1. Amazing handicrafts. The amazing wood-carving skills of Oberammergau natives came to be recognized as early as 1520.
The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Oberammergau» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Oberammergau» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.
May 8, 2020 · The villagers — humble, smiling waiters, souvenir-carvers, Hausfrauen, and children — have produced something that can compete in quality with the greatest opera-houses. Their own passion for telling this story, as a way of living and proclaiming the gospel, means that there is not the slightest fault-line between the performance and life.
Jun 24, 2022 · The Passionsspiele, or Passion Play, is a 5-hour production depicting Jesus’s life, crucifixion and death. After a two-year pandemic delay, between mid-May and early October nearly half a million people are expected to descend on Oberammergau to sit before its massive open-air stage and take in the play.
Jun 28, 2022 · Oberammergau - A Village and its Passion 06/28/2022 June 28, 2022. Two thousand residents of a village in the Bavarian Alps are currently performing almost every day a pageant depicting the ...
Apr 1, 2018 · Public Passions: the Oberammergau Passion Play. The tradition of Easter Passion Plays, re-enacting the Biblical story of Jesus’s last days, crucifixion and resurrection, dates back to the Middle Ages, but the world’s most famous Passion Play, performed once every decade in the Bavarian village of Oberammergau, has its origins in the 17th ...
