Each country has its own festive traditions that happen during the station of the holiday of winter but few are absolutely as memorable as Christmas in Germany. The celebration of Christmas includes three days: the Christmas Eve (the 24 of December); the first day of Christmas, that is the birth of Jesus Christ (the 25) and the second day of Christmas (the 26).
In Germany the christmas history begun when a apostle that try to convince a tribe of Germanic Druids that the oak tree wasn't sacred, so he crushed every shrub in his path but a small fir sapling and people called it the tree of Christ child.
In Christmas children leave letters on their windowsills for Christkind, a winged figure dressed in white robes and a golden crown who distributes gifts. Sometimes the letters are decorated with glue and sprinkled with sugar to make them sparkle.
Germans make beautiful gingerbread houses and cookies. The German Christmas tree pastry, Christbaumgeback, is white dough that can be molded into shapes and baked for tree decorations.
To Germany the tradition of the Christmas tree is attributed to him to the initiated salary as it is known him in the present time, but its origin ancestral data of beliefs and customs. One adorns the house with Christmas reasons like trees, pyramids, and little angel
Guided visits: It does not have nothing else inspired in the Christmas eves that to visit Christkindeslmarkt, the market of Christmas. All the towns German have their own Christkindeslmarkt, a festive market where people meet to enjoy the Christmas spirit.
The cities in Germany are famous by the Christmas swap-meets during the Advent, that are the four weeks that precede to Christmas.
Every year, in the preceding weeks to the Christmas Eve, they cross the streets and side streets of the German cities the aroma of the toasted chestnuts, the hot wine with cinnamon and the rumors of the children and adults who take a walk by the streets decorated with lights. Each one knows that they are the days in which gifts are bought. The aroma to toasted chestnuts leads to the people to the seats where they are the Christmas swap-meets, and from the traveling positions the shouts of the salesmen are listened to: "Maronen, heiße Maronen! ", Brown, brown I warm up.
Also the market of Christmas of Augsburgo. Thousands of people visit the swap-meet of Christmas of Frankfurt and its merry-go-round. (of the 24 of November until the 24 of December) it has his origins in the market of last times. Before they called market of bread Lebkuchenmarkt the spice. The cakes navideñas are offered in all the variants.
On the other hand, until the 5 of January of 2006 the doors of the Gallery of K2h art in Regensburgo are opened. The idea of this house commercial is to make of the art a experience for all. A visit is worth the trouble not only for the connoisseur or collector but for the fan who looks for some gift to place underneath the Christmas tree.
A selection of some swap-meets of Christmas:
Múnich (25 November until the 24 of December): the Christkindlmarkt in the Marienplatz seat becomes celestial factory of manualidades daily, the call "Himmelswerkstatt"
Berlin (until the 24 of December): atmosphere pre navideña in the Alexanderplatz seat
Frankfurt (from the 23 of nobiembre to the 22 of December): in the Paulsplatz seat and the Mainkai
Hamburg (from the 23 of November to the 23 of December): the colorful swap-meet of Christmas throughout the street of Otten has settled throughout the time.
In Germany the christmas history begun when a apostle that try to convince a tribe of Germanic Druids that the oak tree wasn't sacred, so he crushed every shrub in his path but a small fir sapling and people called it the tree of Christ child.
In Christmas children leave letters on their windowsills for Christkind, a winged figure dressed in white robes and a golden crown who distributes gifts. Sometimes the letters are decorated with glue and sprinkled with sugar to make them sparkle.
Germans make beautiful gingerbread houses and cookies. The German Christmas tree pastry, Christbaumgeback, is white dough that can be molded into shapes and baked for tree decorations.
To Germany the tradition of the Christmas tree is attributed to him to the initiated salary as it is known him in the present time, but its origin ancestral data of beliefs and customs. One adorns the house with Christmas reasons like trees, pyramids, and little angel
Guided visits: It does not have nothing else inspired in the Christmas eves that to visit Christkindeslmarkt, the market of Christmas. All the towns German have their own Christkindeslmarkt, a festive market where people meet to enjoy the Christmas spirit.
The cities in Germany are famous by the Christmas swap-meets during the Advent, that are the four weeks that precede to Christmas.
Every year, in the preceding weeks to the Christmas Eve, they cross the streets and side streets of the German cities the aroma of the toasted chestnuts, the hot wine with cinnamon and the rumors of the children and adults who take a walk by the streets decorated with lights. Each one knows that they are the days in which gifts are bought. The aroma to toasted chestnuts leads to the people to the seats where they are the Christmas swap-meets, and from the traveling positions the shouts of the salesmen are listened to: "Maronen, heiße Maronen! ", Brown, brown I warm up.
Also the market of Christmas of Augsburgo. Thousands of people visit the swap-meet of Christmas of Frankfurt and its merry-go-round. (of the 24 of November until the 24 of December) it has his origins in the market of last times. Before they called market of bread Lebkuchenmarkt the spice. The cakes navideñas are offered in all the variants.
On the other hand, until the 5 of January of 2006 the doors of the Gallery of K2h art in Regensburgo are opened. The idea of this house commercial is to make of the art a experience for all. A visit is worth the trouble not only for the connoisseur or collector but for the fan who looks for some gift to place underneath the Christmas tree.
A selection of some swap-meets of Christmas:
Múnich (25 November until the 24 of December): the Christkindlmarkt in the Marienplatz seat becomes celestial factory of manualidades daily, the call "Himmelswerkstatt"
Berlin (until the 24 of December): atmosphere pre navideña in the Alexanderplatz seat
Frankfurt (from the 23 of nobiembre to the 22 of December): in the Paulsplatz seat and the Mainkai
Hamburg (from the 23 of November to the 23 of December): the colorful swap-meet of Christmas throughout the street of Otten has settled throughout the time.
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