Germany
The popular Father’s Day is celebrated in Germany on Christian Ascension Day holiday, the 40th Day after Easter. He is also known as Men’s Day or, especially in East Germany, called the Lord’s Day. Since 1936, Ascension Day public holiday in Germany (the GDR was the day only to 1966 and in 1990 a public holiday).
The current form of the Vatertagfeierns is the end of the 19th Century in Berlin and the surrounding area come up and is popular with men is still very popular. Key element here was the inauguration of the younger ones in the good and bad manners of masculinity.
The Father’s Day is marked mainly in northern and eastern Germany by the so-called Mr game. The participants (traditionally exclusively male – young and old) make this mostly a hike or a common exit, where is often much alcohol consumed (Father’s Day tour). This one has more points than traditional common goal or one tour of restaurant to restaurant. If walking is often carts, hand carts or wheelbarrows are carried, in order to carry the drinks better. For the trips are usually bikes (used in part with the trailer), horse and buggy cars (carriages) or older tractors with trailers. The vehicles or cars are here in part, used only on that day and rebuilt specifically for this, eg special bicycle tandems or bikes with more than a dozen seats. Often the companion with lilac and birch twigs are decorated.
Due to increased alcohol consumption, and the often carried out mass events (this may include social trips, such as barbecue trips, trip to the fishing pond) is when you look at the statistics, on Father’s Day a lot more fights than usual to other days. According to the Federal Statistical Office, the number of traffic accidents caused by alcohol in Christ’s ascension to three times the average of the other days and reached a highlight of the year.
Today is Father’s Day is often celebrated as a family to make some day trips around common, but also over the long weekend (with Friday as a bank holiday, to be released in many schools to take) a break.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatertag
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