School vacation and holidays

Public holidays 2022

Saxony		Czech Republic
01.01.	New Year	01.01.	New Year
02.04.	Good Friday	02.04.	Good Friday
05.04.	Easter Monday	05.04.	Easter Monday
01.05.	Labour Day	01.05.	Labour Day
		08.05.	Victory Day (over the German occupation 1945)
13.05.	Ascension Day
24.05.	Whit Monday
		05.07.	Cyril and Method (arrival of the Slavic apostles in Greater Moravia 862)
		06.07.	Jan Hus Day (burning at the stake in Konstanz 1415)
		28.09.	Day of Czech Statehood (anniversary of the death of St. Wenceslas in 929 or 935)
03.10.	German Unification Day (re-unification of Germany 1990)
		28.10.	Independence Day (national holiday) (foundation of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918)
31.10.	Reformation Day
		17.11.	Day of the fight for freedom and democracy (demonstration in the National Road in 1989, decisive for the Velvet Revolution)
17.11.	Day of penance and prayer (only in Saxony)
		24.12.	Christmas Eve
25.12.	1st Christmas Day	25.12.	1st Christmas Day
26.12.	2nd Christmas Day	26.12.	2nd Christmas Day