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We have combined this once in a lifetime event where your can witness the magic, with 5 spectacular tours.
The performers come only from Obermmergau and its surrounding villages, maintaing the tradition of the villagers' solemn vow. Read more
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Imagine a small Bavarian village nestling in the shadows of the Alps in 1633. The Great Plague descended and many lives were lost to this mysterious illness. The villagers made a solemn vow that, if the lives of the villagers were spared the whole village would enact a play depicting the story of Christ’s suffering, dying and resurrection.
Miraculously the Plague did not claim any more lives and so true to their vows, the villagers of Oberammergau enacted their first play in 1634. They have continued to do so every decade since in spite of wars and other problems.
2010 sees the continuation of the tradition in the 21st century.