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Oberammergau

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Oberammergau

Village in Bavaria, Germany, 72 km/45 mi southwest of Munich; population (1994) 5,300. A Christian passion play has been performed here every ten years since 1634 (except during the world wars) to commemorate the ending of the Black Death plague.


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On the Continent of Europe, indeed, they still survive, after a fashion, in a single somewhat modernized form, the celebrated Passion Play of Oberammergau.
 
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