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The Best German Christmas Traditions – Christmas in Germany
In this video, I would like to share with you the best German Christmas traditions that we follow. If you would like to know how we spend Christmas in Germany, all meaningful Christmas in traditions, like German Christmas markets, German Christmas cookies, German Lebkuchen, German Christmas tree, advent calendar, or st. Nicholas.
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What is your favorite Christmas tradition?
There is a common fallacy that Yule Logs are a Scandanavian Pre-Christian pagan tradition – but infact the earliest reference to the burning of a log during the Christmas period is from Christian Germany in the late 12th century.
The Germans should reclaim it back.
I love hearing about your Christmas! Thank you!
I first tried Lebkuchen at the Christmas market in Rothenburg. I love Lebkuchen!
I love teaching my daughter about kindness and generosity.
Hey wait–I want to go to the baking party with the ladies! 😉
Hello just thought I’d let you know that at 5:09 there is a picture of blackface which is very racist and offensive to a lot of people. Maybe you weren’t aware of it so I thought I’d let you know. That aside, Very informative video thanks!
In Paraguay we usually put fruit in the manger … and eat the traditional food that is SOPA PARAGUAYA or CHIPA GUAZÚ… it so delicious
OMG, I really want to live that Christmas experience
Happy Christmas 🎄❤️🎁🇬🇧
Very informative. Gonna be a fun first Christmas
so lucky you don't have the restrictions like masks..and life seems so joyous there ..here its sadness and despair…🇨🇦😪
I just love that I found your videos. My father's family is from Germany but didn't teach any traditions once they came to America I'm enjoying your channel very much 💖💖💯💯
Oh how wonderful! I'm glad that the celebrations there seem less materialistic. Friends and family and food. That's the good stuff.
My mom grew up in post WWII Dornbusch, Frankfurt am Main. Santa used to come see her in early December. He’d open up his big book, look her up, and tell her some of the good and bad things she had done that year. She said it scared her into being an angel for the rest of the year!
Something British? How about roast prime rib of beef with Yorkshire Pudding for the main course?
There is no other Christmas market like in Germany. I’ve been to the Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Hanau, and Stuttgart ones. Some places in the US try to recreate them, but it’s just not the same. As a Catholic, advent candles and calendars are normal. I hope you have a nice Christmas.
That time of the year Christmas time. 🎄
Just posted Christmas Market in Vancouver 2021! What do you think? Is it like in Germany?
RED CABBAGE!!!
I enjoyed that! My family’s traditions are a cross between the English and German. My Dad met my Mum when he was working in London and we were raised in England but my Dad taught my Mum to cook!
Klaus
How GREAT it all sounds !!!!! Thank you dear for sharing. Have a BEAUTIFUL Christmas be safe God bless ✌
Love this 🥰 one line of my family is from the Black Forest so we always try to incorporate a German meal into our holiday traditions. Ty for the wonderful ideas
Gosh, I thought I had miscalculated when I lit the first candle last Sunday! Enjoy with all your family! Gluehwein and Broetchen in the Weihnachtmarkt in Bremen is truly magical.
So many traditions I grew up with mirror the ones you mention. It is my goal to visit Germany during the holidays someday and visit Horrheim, which is the earliest location we can trace my family to.
such a beautiful woman- lovely smile
Awesome channel idea. 👏 I'm just starting a new channel with a similar concept. I make traditional baked goods and desserts from different European countries. Looking forward to following and learning from you. 😀
The cookies all look delicious. Could you do a video with a tutorial making a few types?
My mother was German…many of our traditions are the same as yours …I still follow them….including the advent calendar which I bought in Germany the last time I was there at the Kathe Wohlfahrt store in Rothenburg ( i bought 6 and only have 1 left) This year we are having a kriskindlmarkt here in Buffalo New York… I can’t wait to go. My Stollen I buy at Aldi’s it’s not as good as my mother’s, but I am the only one who likes it …so it has to do! 😂 Thank you for sharing your traditions Frohe Weihnachten und ein gluckliches Neues Jahr.
The German tradition of oranges, peanuts and candy survived the trip to America with a little change. The children get a bag of oranges, peanuts and candy when they leave church on Christmas Eve. I'm looking forward to attending a German Christmas market in Concordia, Missouri sponsored by St. Paul's Lutheran High School the second weekend of December, the last Christmas market I attended was in Nuremberg.
Man that brings back so many memories of my childhood. I have passed some of these traditions with my family. Our traditional Christmas eve dinner consisted of mainly cold items like smoked eel, smoked salmon, shromp salad and herring to name a few. Chritmas day was left overs and Boxing day was Roast Goose with Red Cabbage. Love your channel!
Love these traditions, the lights look beautiful at the Christmas market! 🌲🙂💕
Wonderful video, really nice explained. Perfect for everyone to start the season ☃️🎄🎀
Schönen 1. Advent 🕯️
My Brothers and Sisters, just curious, did Humanity Started in German?
Christmas 🎄 in Germany 🇩🇪, is very very cool 😎, my Brothers and Sisters 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
I love this. My German ancestors came to America in the 1880s, so we are pretty far removed from them. However, they were my grandma’s grandparents, so she gave us traditions and stories. There’s always lots of cookie baking (which I am bad at.) I remember Grandma making strudel. We always had an advent calendar and advent wreath. When my kids were just a little older then yours, I made an advent calendar where I wrapped a Christmas children’s book for each day. Did that for several years. My kids are 11 and 8, and have outgrown half the books I had.
Mo and Dad always knew of someone who wasn't having much of a Christmas, so they made sure the family or elderly person had the makings of a good meal and some little something from 'Santa'.
My Italian American friends always make spaghetti and meatballs, baked ziti or lasagna for the holidays. I'm in the US, we went non traditional for Thanksgiving. We did Greek, Irish and German.
Very nice video Marta to set the holiday spirit in motion, the cookies you chose looked to be the best. I still remember a few advent calendars which were magical for me as a child, no candy inside them back then just nice pictures of Christmas.
Awww thanks for sharing your Christmas tradition and meals. I hope Max will enjoy St Nicolas on the 6th 😊. I was fortunate to have spent Christmas in Hamburg before the pandemic happened and it was one of the best Christmases I have ever experienced 😊😍 Germans do it right 😉
sounds wonderful! We have a Christmas Market in Buffalo, NY USA for the first time this year – can't wait to go 🙂
Growing up in Canada in a German family, we did most of what you mentioned, now as I'm old, none of this really matters any more to me.
We have a nice roast beef dinner on the 25th. Merry Christmas Marta! Baby’s first!
Ah, this was a fun video. We always drive up to my dad's house for Christmas Eve, have a nice dinner and give Christmas presents. Christmas day is nice and quiet at home.
nice! i grew up german lutheran and for many years i didn't put up a christmas tree, i made an advent wreath. i'm 60 now, and don't bother with either anymore.
Our families favorite Christmas tradition is to hike up into the mountains and eat a nice meal then we pick a wild tree and decorate it we dont cut them down only decorate them it is a special time for my family and I am looking forward to it again this year thank you for asking us and thank you for your channel and videos we are northern german and love to see everything you show us it fills our hearts with joy thank you again so very much and I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas!!!
I’m a German-American born citizen. My Mother was a Naturalized American Citizen from Munich. She was very Americanized and did a lot of the similar traditions you shared during the month of December leading up to Christmas, but she never told us that what she was doing. Thanks for the memories 😁
That Apple dessert looks stunning x
Growing up Chistmas Eve was quiet at our house. However, you mention Polish, and I believe in some parts of Geremany it is a big event. I once knew a Jewish man who grew up in a mostly Polish neighborhood in Chicago. His neighbors would all go to Midnight Mass. When they came home there developed a big, neighborhood party, with all kinds of food. He said he never had so much fun as on Christmas Eve!
How could one not give you a 👍vote, du bist immer so froehlich, aber besonders in diesem video! 😊👏