Delaware’s German-American society, the Saengerbund, is throwing it’s annual Oktoberfest celebration. Beer will flow, home-made potato salad will be piled to the tent roofs, and oom-pah bands will fill the air with music.

If you’re wondering why it’s in September instead of October, well, that’s actually traditional. The original Oktoberfest took place in the Theresienwiese, an open space near the center of the German city of Munich, to celebrate the wedding of Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen and Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1810. Ludwig, as you’ll no doubt remember, was later an admirer of Lola Montez, and the grandfather of Mad King Ludwig.

The 1810 celebration led up to the wedding on the first Sunday in October, and all Oktoberfests up until 1994 have also taken place during the sixteen days up to, and including, the first Sunday in October. In 1994, the schedule was modified in response to German reunification so that if the first Sunday in October falls on the 1st or 2nd, then the festival would go on until October 3 (German Unity Day). Thus, the festival is now 17 days when the first Sunday is October 2 and 18 days when it is October 1. I totally cribbed the last two sentences from Wikipedia, of course.
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So Oktoberfest ushers in the month of October, and the name makes perfect sense. Except, of course, that nobody in Munich ever calls the festival Oktoberfest at all… they call it “die Wiesn” after the local nickname for the Theresienwiese. Only foreigners call it Oktoberfest.

I just go for the rollmops. A slab of pickled herring on a slice of rye bread, what’s not to like? This year I’ll probably only get to spend a few hours there, but I enjoy walking home afterwards – it’s almost exactly four miles according to Google, and a good way to burn off a lot of beer calories.