Source:Berliner Morgenpost (Berlin)
Posted: Thursday, October 8, 2015
Most recent follow-up news item: March 1, 2019
The Home Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies (Innenausschuss des Abgeordnetenhauses) of Germany's state (Land) of Berlin, with the votes of the governing SPD/CDU coalition, as well as those of the Greens opposition, approved the bill that would declare October 31, 2017, as a one-off public holiday (gesetzlichen Feiertag) to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther posting his ninety-five theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg.
Early this year (2015-01-22), the SPD and CDU coalition partners of Germany's state of Berlin, had announced that they would jointly introduce a bill that would declare October 31, 2017, as a one-off public holiday (gesetzlichen Feiertag) to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther posting his ninety-five theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg, the German State of Berlin.
According to our running tally of the various regional announcements of the past 3 years, the only German Land which has not announced its intention of declaring October 31, 2017, as a one-off public holiday (gesetzlichen Feiertag) to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther posting his ninety-five theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg, is Niedersachsen.
Links and References
Below are links to the news stories referred to in the above "Berlin 2017 Reformation Public Holiday" news story, as well as links to subsequents news stories which refer to the present news story.
