Christmas in Germany
The season of Advent is something very special in Germany, a time when people look forward to Christmas Eve on 24 December, when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus. The festive atmosphere, the decorated Christmas trees, the presents carefully arranged underneath and many other traditional customs are part and parcel of German culture.
A white-and-golden robe, long blond curls and a golden crown: the Nuremberg Christmas Angel looks back on a rich six-hundred-year-old tradition and is the symbolic figure at Nuremberg’s Christkindlesmarkt. On the Friday before Advent (27 November) Nuremberg’s Christmas Angel opens Germany’s most famous Christmas Market with a solemn prologue which she recites from the gallery of the Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche).
Christmas
Christmas is a time for quiet reflection during which traditional Christmas carols are sung and poems recited in many homes. Listen to these classical German Christmas poems.
German Christmas poems
As many Americans spend this season huddled inside, likely in shopping malls, preparing for Christmas under artificial lights and celebrating the joy by swiping their credit cards, it’s fun to see how Germans go full-stop during the holidays and offer a storybook scene that most people only get to see, well…in storybooks.
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