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
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