Visit our healthy eating policy. Brooklyn Borough Hall Click HERE to read more about this historic building. Historic Place Added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1980. The building was renovated in the 1980s, replacing the flag on the cupola with a new figure of Lady Justice.
The day of German unity (Tag der deutschen Einheit) is a nationwide public holiday celebrated on 3 October. It marks the official reunification of Germany in 1990.
German Cuisine on the Day of German Unity. October 3 is the German national holiday, the Day of German Unity. But unlike the Fourth of July in the United States, there are no parades and no traditions, culinary or other, because the holiday only goes back to 1990. It was introduced to mark German Reunification that year and replaced June 17, the holiday that commemorated the East German uprising of 1953. Until the GDR began to visibly crumble in 1989, the fact that I was living in a divided country was totally abstract to me.