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BILD presents the best Oktoberfest facts
Drinkers set to splash out €1bn at beer festival
Oktoberfest may be about drinking beer and wearing funny clothes, but nowadays it's big business - with nearly €1 billion set to be spent at this year's festival.
And that's not the only amazing fact about the legendary Munich beer festival.
Oktoberfest was first held in 1810 when Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, who was later crowned King Ludwig I, wanted his people to share in the celebration of his marriage to Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen on October 12.
Anniversary celebrations continued each year, usually starting in late September and ending in the first week of October.
BILD has collected some of the best Oktoberfest facts:Approximately €955 million are spent during the 16 days of Oktoberfest.
About 12,000 people are employed, 1,600 of whom are waitresses
There are about 100,000 seats in the festival halls.
Lost property at last year's Oktoberfest totalled about 4,000 items, including 260 pairs of glasses, 200 mobile phones, a wedding ring and two crutches...
At the 2007 event, 69,406 hectorlitres of beer, 521,872 roasted chickens and 142,253 pairs of pork sausages were consumed.
Find more Oktoberfest facts and statistics at Muenchen.de
