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“Discover Germany – An Amazing Journey of Discovery”
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As we approach Christmas, all over Germany you can smell roasted almonds, gingerbread and mulled wine. Every town has its own Christmas market. One of the most famous is the Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt, and it will be opened by the Christ child himself, confirmed the city councilor Dr. Michael Fraas.
O-TON Dr. Michael Fraas, Nuremberg/Bavaria
Man: It’s Friday of the first week of Advent, so it’s dark in the big market. All lights will be turned off, including in buildings near booths. A dark place. Then a large lamp lights up, directed to the balcony of the Frauenkirche and suddenly the Christ child stands there wearing his golden robe with a crown and says: “The Christ child invites you to his market and everyone should be welcomed.”
However the oldest Christmas market in Germany is the Striezelmarkt in Dresden from 1434. Like Nuremberg with gingerbread, the Christmas market in Dresden is also associated with the famous pastry, reports Veronika Hiebl of the Tourismus Marketing Gesellschaft Sachsen.
O-TON Veronika Hiebl, Dresden/Saxony
Woman: Dresden Striezelmarkt and Dresden Christmas Stollen have a similar history, and this continues to this day, because Dresden Striezelmarkt is named after a traditional pastry originally called Striezel.
Christian Tänzler of Visit Berlin clearly sees the German capital as the capital of Christmas markets, with more than 50 markets, from imperial to urban.
O-TON Christian Tänzler, Visit Berlin
Man: We have a Christmas market for dog lovers, for example. Of course we also have great things like a children’s Christmas market, a winter camp for the LGBTIQ community, we have an old train, magic and atmosphere in an old train station. And, what is most important in Berlin is stability. We have a natural market in Kollwitz-Platz. Therefore, everyone will get what they want.
The 17 Christmas markets in “Holy Hamburg” also start with the crazy “Santa Pauli” and the trivial Reeperbahn to maritime Christmas ideas, explains Guido Neumann from Hamburg Tourism.
O-TON Guido Neumann, Hamburg tourism
Mann: We have a Christmas market in the Hafencity right on the water, with a view of the harbor, a Christmas market around the Binnenalster or there are two Christmas markets in Fleeten, on the canals. There are also many things happening on board: Christmas stories on the Alster steamers, boxing and Christmas theme tours on the Elbe through the bright harbor.
Grog instead of mulled wine, fish rolls instead of the usual bratwurst. But cookies, cookies, Santa Claus, Christmas carols and Advent calendars are also part of the pre-Christmas season. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the largest Advent calendar house in the world is in the Black Forest, according to Gengenbach city spokesman Oliver Gerhard.
O-TON Oliver Gelhardt, Gengenbach Advent Calendar/Ba-Wü
Man: The town hall has 24 windows, and this town hall is lit up and becomes a big Advent calendar, and every evening at 6 pm the window opens. What is unique about the Gengenbach Advent calendar is that great artists are always featured. We already had paintings by Chagall, by Tomi Ungerer… There is always beautiful art around these windows.
If you want to see the best Christmas-decorated cities in Germany from your window, you can book cruises to the winter destinations of the Rhine, Danube or Elbe. From November to March, so-called winter cruises are also offered in the Spreewald, says Patrick Kastner of Reiseland Brandenburg.
O-TON Patrick Kastner Spreewald/Brandenburg
Man: These are the special winter moments you can enjoy snuggling up in a warm woolen blanket with a mulled wine in your hand. You can listen to dreamy stories from the boatmen, who stand at the end and steer the boat, almost like a gondola in Venice.
Anyone who goes to the north of Germany can find Christmas trees in Freest and on the island of Rügen decorated with apples, potatoes and rose hips instead of balls, angels and tinsel, because Lüttenweihnacht is celebrated there, the festival Christmas animal based on it. book by Hans Fallada, explains Kathrin Hackbarth from the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Tourism Association.
O-TON Kathrin Hackbarth, Meck-Pomm: Lüttenchristmas
Woman: Animals also have a need – sometimes there is snow on the shores of the Baltic Sea – to find suitable food there. So we had an idea to make edibles. These can be tit rings, carrots, clay pots filled with fat and seeds or fruits, which are then given to the animals.
A little joy for forest animals in the snow. And the snow makes skiers happy, especially in the Bavarian Alps and the Black Forest. But there are also windows at Wasserkuppe in Hesse, Fichtelberg in Saxony and Erbeskopf in the Palatinate. And Andreas Lehmberg of the Harz Tourism Association recommends winter holidays in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.
O-TON Andreas Lehmberg, Harz ski resorts
Man: There are great ski areas for alpine skiing in Braunlage and Wurmberg or Matthias-Schmidt-Berg in Sankt Andreasberg, and in the Bocksberg ski area in Hahnenklee. These are the big ones. In addition to cross-country skiing, skiing is great in the Harz; In addition, the Harz is very important when it comes to tobogganing because we are the first deep mountain range from the north where you can toboggan for longer. That’s why we have a dense network of prepared hiking trails.
If you want to play a lot in winter, you will find a lot of important sports information at the Oberhof Olympic center in the Thuringian Forest, reveals Thuringian sports journalist Katja Bauroth.
O-TON Katja Bauroth, Oberhof/Thuringia
Woman: There is ski jumping there. Running up and down the steps is a workout for your leg muscles. International athletes can meet on the biathlon field in Grenzadler. While there, it is possible for tourists to shoot on their own. The national ski hall allows cross-country skiing all year round, and you can find the creme de la creme of international Nordic skiing there.
So, enjoy the German winter!
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