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Bask in the flavor of Christmas this year with 123Christians offering information on Christmas in Germany. Christmas preparations often commence on the eve of December 6th. People often save particular evenings for baking spiced cakes and cookies, and making gifts and decorations. Little dolls of fruit are traditional Christmas toys. Children leave letters on their windowsills for Christkind, a winged form 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 striking gingerbread houses and cookies. The German Christmas tree pastry, Christbaumgeback, is white dough that can be cast into shapes and baked for tree decorations. People believe that the Christ Child sends an envoy in Christmas Eve in the form of an angel, bearing gifts. There is also a Christmas Eve figure called Weihnachtsmann or Christmas Man, like Santa Claus and also brings gifts. Several homes have some Christmas trees, and they glow in all towns across Germany. They hang up advent wreaths of holly with four red candles in the center, lighting one candle each Sunday and last on Christmas Eve.
In some homes a room remains locked up before Christmas. On Christmas Eve, children go to bed but are woken up at midnight by their parents and taken down to the locked room. The door is opened and they see the tree all lit up, with piles of parcels on little tables. For all the interesting trivia relating to a Christmas in Germany, surf
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