Oberammergau Passion Play 2022
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The most old and unique Theater Performance in the world
The very unique event Oberammergau Passion Play has been taking place since 1634 in a small town in Germany once for 10 years. Only residents of the town are eligible to take part in the play. Upon the history in 1632, a man named Kaspar Schisler brought the plague into the village. Faced with the great distress that the terrible illness inflicted upon the population, the leaders of the community came together and pledged to hold a passion tragedy once every ten years. From this day forward, not a single person perished, even though a great number of them still showed signs of the plague. At Whitsun in 1634, they fulfilled their promise for the first time. By the middle of the 18th century, spectators from all over Germany came to Oberammergau attracted by the great power and atmosphere of the play.