Oktoberfest Besides the Oktoberfest, there are other public festivals that take place at the same location. In April/May it's the Munich "Frühlingsfest" (spring festival) and Tollwood Festival in December with 650,000 visitors. After the Oktoberfest the next largest public fairs in Germany are the "Cannstatter Volksfest" in Stuttgart with about 4.5 million visitors each year, the "Cranger Kirmes" in Herne (Wanne-Eickel) (the largest fair in Northrhine-Westphalia) with 4.4 million visitors, the Rheinkirmes in Düsseldorf (called largest fair on the Rhine), and the "Freimarkt" in Bremen (the biggest fair in northern Germany) with over 4 million visitors per year each. Also noteworthy
Munich S-Bahn route. On 28 May 1972, the Munich S-Bahn network was finally put into service with of tracks and 101 trains of the ET 420 series. Town names in the nearby Munich such as Dachau, Tutzing, Erding and Pasing came into the picture. It was the first time a S-Bahn network that size was put into service on a single date. The route S10 to Wolfratshausen (today S7) was operated with conventional push-pull trains from the southern wing of Munich Central Station. It was electrified later and connected to the core route after the construction of a tunnel crossing the large