Oberammergau meaning

ōbər-ämər-gou
A town of southern Germany in the Bavarian Alps south-southwest of Munich. It is famed for its Passion plays, held every ten years since 1634 in thanksgiving for deliverance from the Black Death in 1633.
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(place) Village in S Germany, in the state of Bavaria: site of a Passion play performed usually every ten years.
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Oberammergau Sentence Examples

  • The original text and arrangements were probably made by the monks of Ettal, a monastery a little higher up the valley; but they were carefully remodelled by the parish priest at the beginning of the present century, when the Oberammergau play obtained exemption from the general suppression of such performances by the Bavarian government.

  • Edward Devrient (in 1850) was among the first to direct general attention to Oberammergau; and numerous accounts have since appeared.

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