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In Germany, Christmas really glitters! In fact many of the traditions we associate with the festive season in Britain, the US and around the world come to us via Germany. The Christmas Tree, Santa Claus, Advent Calendars, nutcrackers, toys, Christmas Markets and a cornucopia of Christmas confections had roots in Deutschland. Much of this cultural exchange comes from the tight familial bonds between the British and German royal families. So curl up by the Tannenbaum with a plate of Weihnachtsplätzchen (Christmas cookies), and a mug of Glühwein or Kinderpunsch (mulled wine with or without the alcohol). And together let’s explore the history of German Christmas traditions and visit the royal neues palais on December 24th, 1907 for a spectacularly festive meal with Kaiser Wilhelm and his family.
Queen Victoria’s Christmas Feast: https://youtu.be/pQW9eZXApzg
Christmas trees, Tannenbaum, Christmas ornaments
Santa Clause, Saint Nicholas, Christkind
Nutcrackers, wooden toys
Christmas Markets
Christmas food and drink (cookies)
Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Christmas Eve Menu, 1907
I make mini documentaries about women’s history and royal history:
Queens of the World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lxDVWL1aN4&list=PLsiuz33wEZhj6CFEHrw47ulNyvyHO57J8
A History of… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A8yKzJN-C0&list=PLsiuz33wEZhii9xcG1p2FmkfzWf2Axv8b
Royal History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnisWy9P9u0&list=PLsiuz33wEZhjKGD6PxxG-xkT_ZTTchMFV
LGBT Royals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUW1AqFIY94&list=PLsiuz33wEZhgGKCsUDY6R-5YcLrEFLc2i
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org
https://www.britannica.com
http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk
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Im a german girl and live in germany. Learning that all the iconic christmas traditions come from germany made me really happy! i also really enjoyed your appreciation and efforts to name all the things in german. Thank you for this amazing video. Love from germany 💕
Well I guess Germany in 1907 must have been an unskilled laborers Paradise! Working a 5 day 40 hour week (oh!, sorry, 6 days at 12-14 hours) afforded a man more than enough money to rent or buy a two bedroom apartment, heated all winter, with three meals on the table, meat every night
I don't think that the Bible says it was an apple. I think it just said fruit.
So interesting
Cite one source that the 8 reindeer derive from the 8 legs.
The deer originate in the American poem.
If only Germany were allowed to be Germany.
Well it was all well and good for the 5%! All the starving people just got by living on Pease porridge 5 days old. 95% of Germans were in freezing so-called cottages, starving half to death, whilst the rich would celebrate with a ridiculous amount of wasted food. Oh, yes! The starving families stood, with no coats, looking throttle windows BEGGING for leftovers!
Sadly, that excess food went to the half-starved servants.
That is reality folks.
Watching the 5% living it up isn’t appealing to me. Sugar coating history is insanity
Lethargical year?
Quite charming. Although, it does remind me that we live in remarkable times. When the narrator doesn't even know how to read or pronounce the word liturgical.
Everything just crazy and we love Christmas because to us it represents a savior is born his name is Emmanuel which means God with us
Edward VII was the Kaiser‘s Uncle, not cousin…FYI
In my family, ever since I was a child, we have celebrated with feasting foods for three days!
On Christmas Eve after a long day of ice skating, for late night dinner, we have a first course of fish pie, followed by roast pork and mushrooms, with a lemon Bavarian cream for dessert. White wines. Hot chocolate.
On Christmas morning there is always a warm bread pudding, with apples, raisins, and custard. Christmas Day dinner at dusk is always, first a clear soup with cheese straws, followed by roast turkey, with an oyster and walnut stuffing, accompanied by mandatory sides of corn pudding, potatoes in some form, at least two often three vegetable dishes, cranberry relish, and more. Then a sorbet and a long pause for opening presents, followed by coffee and dessert, which is a variety of pies, but always pumpkin (everyone's first choice!) and mince as two, and usually apple and blueberry as two more of the several choices. Red wines and finally whiskies.
And finally on the evening of the 26th, we start with a cold buffet featuring smoked salmon and other seafood and deviled eggs with caviar, followed by roast beef (often Beef Wellington,) finishing with a salad of bitter greens and radishes, and for dessert that day, an EXTRA special ice cream, fruit and nut dessert molded and frozen into festive shapes such as Christmas trees or stars. Champagne.
For us kids, this ice cream treat on the third day, hand-made by our grandfather, then my father, now by me, is THE most important, absolutely non-negotiable food for the holidays!
The eclectic mix of food traditions comes from being from a typically American culturally mixed family. My Franco-Swedish grandmother (fish) and German grandfather (pork) on my mother's side of the family (Christmas Eve). This was our "comfort food" holiday meal signalling the real official start of the Christmas and the midnight vigil of waiting for Santa.
My New England English grandmother on my father's side, who was big on colonial American traditions, was responsible for the holiday's centerpiece formal turkey dinner with all the trimmings (Christmas day).
My wealthy over- indulgent German-Russian grandfather on my father's side orchestrated our final feast of smoked salmon, roast beef, and ice cream (December 26.)
Sounds like a delicious dinner!
In Sami Lapp tradition red and white dried hallucinogenic mushrooms were/are distributed by shamans at the midwinter festival.
I’m German and 75 years old. When I was a child we didn’t have the Weinachtsmann, we had the Kris kind, or baby Jesus on Christmas Eve.
It was so nice to hear all the amazing things that occurred in Germany during the festive season, that l was not aware of. Thanks so much for showing us. We've never had a perfect world but it is heartwarming to know that we hold our traditions close no matter what.
We left Germany when l was six. We had lived in a tiny village named Opferdingen and l remember our last Weinachten there. My mother put me outside in the afternoon of Christmas Eve. I played with another Christmas outcast. Finally Lore went home to her house and l was brought in, to a room that was magically transformed. Tree Lights flickered, and pink, shiny packages of candies glowed. There was kuchen on the table, and presents too.
Lá voz de esa Senora da dolor de cabeza solo de escuchar lá 😢
This video was disappointing because of its cursory research and political correctness. In a video about a major Christmas holiday, use of "CE" as opposed to "AD" shows either lack of insight, lack of respect, or an overabundance of brainwashing. To speak of Charlemagne "imposing" Christianity "at the point of a sword" ignores the earlier missionary efforts of St. Boniface and the nuances of the struggle with the Saxons. To speak of the Holy Roman Empire "controlling" area instead of "covering" it is Marxist language. To call St. Nicholas a bishop in "Turkey" is a geographical anachronism, since Turkey did not exist until the 20th century; people interested in history want the facts. Next, saints are not "worshipped," they are "venerated". Words matter. Finally one makes videos about royalty should know that King Edward VII was the Kaiser's uncle, not his cousin.
Edward V11 was the Kaisers uncle. Not cousin!
King Edward VII was Kaiser Wilhelm's Uncle, not Cousin.
Carp? And you think lutefisk is aweful
I was taught this poem as a young child: Kristkindle Komm in unser Haus. Lehr Dei goldenes sackele auss, Stell dei Esele under de Disch, das er Heu and Hafer frisst. Hei and Hafer frisst er nich.. und Zuckerbrotle griecht er nit.
I love history, and Christmas.
Bertie, later King Edward VII, was Kaiser Wilhelm's uncle, not cousin.
Love watching history Christmas other countries
Tradition especially 18 century ❤
Kept their faith
And culture
And values ❤
Beautiful video ❤
Great knowledge and made my Christmas
Mine was 1950 /60
UK
North Newcastle
Proper winter land
Proper England
Proper coal fire
Beautiful faith
Tradition Christmas has to be winter ❤
My memories ❤
Hmm, maybe all men should have a bag to put their nuts and gingerbread in……..😁
It sounded like you said “lethargical” – did you mean “liturgical”?
my family did a traditional german christmas dinner a few years back and let me tell you- the stollen was the worst thing to make haha
A couple years ago I was at the Great Dickens Christmas Faire in San Francisco and spotted the most epic Krampus (? Somebody help me with spelling) cosplay I’ve ever seen, complete with cloven hoofed shoes
the narrator's voice is not good
For generations in my family, plum pudding w/ hard sauce is THEE taste of Christmas. Prime rib is right up there too.
German here, grown up in Hessen and still living there, but our roots are from Niedersachsen. So there were a few things to navigate for my parents 😂
Today still the Nikolaus boot is usually placed outside the bedroom door in all households. No matter catholic or lutheran. And in a lot of families the kids fill their parents' boots with small gifts as well pretty early on already 🎉
St. Nikolaus is not a division 😅 it is who brings the presents on Christmas eve Christkind or Weihnachtsmann. Totally different discussion here 😊
The first Advent calendar was actually a wreath with white candles for every day and different colored bigger ones for the respective Sundays. All put on an old wheel wrapped with greenery. A lutheran idea that is still living in a few nursery/Kindergartens run by a church.
Feels like home with my parents.
CE????
Im going for the poppy seed dessert, because in addition to all the little bits of German ancestry I have, Im also quite a bit Bohemian. Mmmm ♡ poppy seed.
The worldfamous Silent Holy Night 🎶song is from Austrian, not german, composer Gruber and from Austrian lyricist Mohr. The song was 'born' i.e. first performed December 24th 1818 in the (still existing) beautiful 'Holy Night Chapel' located in the state of Salzburg, Austria 🇦🇹
Although Austria🇦🇹Switzerland🇨🇭and Germany🇩🇪 and parts of Belgium🇧🇪 share German as a language, the landscape, mentality and food is different from Germany-
or as the two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz put it
'the difference between Austria and Germany is thelike between a sailing yacht and a war vessel'
My family(my mom)always did the Nutcracker ballet 🩰 before the Holidays started.I don’t see this ballet 🩰 anymore,because,it’s hard to get downtown.So,now,I watch Christmas 🎅 singing on channel eleven.It’s better to stay home,and out of the cold 🥶 on this Holiday Season!Because,ice and snow ⛄️ is always an issue,now!This is nice 👍 to hear about Germany,or I mean….German Christmas 🎅 traditions!This is a lovely 🥰 film,here!
https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2023/01/christmas-gnome-internet-institute.html
This is so interesting! I Basler Läckerli are swiss 😀
We call st.Nicolaus Samichlaus and Krampus for Schmutzli. If you’ve been bad he will put you in his bag and whip you in the forest.
However, I did not know about krampus Nacht! My birthday is on the 5th, so this is big news to me! Thank you for sharing ❤
It's my dream to celebrate Christmas in Germany
American of German descent. We always had the tree. Mom made stolen, plum pudding, ginger cookies & a handmade ginger bread house( all decorated with candy, frosting & trimmings).
Some Americans put up their tree in October? Nahhhh, I think you’re confusing that with ppl who never take down their tree.
German from Hamburg speaking 😅 my father is from Potsdam though, he buys his Christmas tree which we call Weihnachtsbaum every year in the December n its put up on the 23rd December and then we all have to vacate the living room for him to decorate it … I am 40 meanwhile n my son turns 4 shortly after Christmas this year but I have not had my own tree ever because I love the one of my father too much… Its looking almost identical each year with one odd new piece of decoration every other year which just blends in perfectly AND my parents have always used real candles on it for longer than I live which actually gives our Normann Tanne it's special touch …when I was in early labour with my son, I asked hospital staff if I was allowed to spend Christmas eve with my parents under the tree nonetheless because nothing was actually moving forward as hoped n they told me go ahead as you are in close vicinity to the hospital maybe a Glühwein will help the kick start.. 😅 but no it didn't maybe because I hadn't had one but my son is totally in love with the 3 tenors Christmas concert ever since…
"Topham" is pronounced "Topam", not "Top ham".
My Belgian daughter in law does the shoe thing. Here in the UK the advent calendar is very popular.
The wealth and “class” disparities as well as the conspicuous “royal” consumption is just sick!! EAT THE RICH!!
I'm already feeling the pre thanksgiving hunger pains while watching this video! 🤤
Will you do one of these this year for Christmas or thanksgiving or something w food so cool
🎉👩🦳