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Title: Holidays Around The World


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Holidays Around The World
  • Germany
  • By Katie and Jayson

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Christmas
  • St. Nicholas Eve happens on Dec, 6
  • all of the children leave one shoe out for St.
    Nicholas to either leave candy if they are good
    or twigs if they are bad

3
Traditions
  • On January 6 boys dress up to mark the visit of
    the three kings to Jesus.
  • Germans put candles on their tree branches.
  • Christmas tree was usually reserved for a special
    unveiling only on Christmas Eve
  • On the twelfth day of Christmas they eat king
    cake.
  • Go out Christmas caroling
  • The Germans call the time from December 1st to
    December 24th "Adventszeit", which means the
    time before Christmas Eve

4
Foods
  • A traditional Christmas dinner consists of a
    baked goose with potatoes and vegetables but
    different regions of Germany have developed their
    own specialties over the years.
  • Christmas pie and mincemeat pie And eggnog.
  • Dinner is served after presents have been
    unwrapped
  • The most traditional of the baked goods is
    Lebkuchen. Other wonderful tasty seasonal baked
    goods are Vanilla Scones or Vanille Kipferln,
    Christstollen, Linzer Sterne (by
    Schwarzwald-Tage.de), Marzipantorte, Rumkugeln,
    Dominosteine, Cinnamon Stars or Zimtsterne

5
Colors
  • Everything appears in red and dark green - the
    colors of "Weihnachten" in Germany.

6
Did you know
  • It is a widely held belief that Martin Luther,
    the sixteenth-century Protestant reformer, first
    added lighted candles to a tree. Walking toward
    his home one winter evening, composing a sermon,
    he was awed by the brilliance of stars twinkling
    among the evergreens. To recapture the scene for
    his family, he erected a tree in the main room
    and wired its branches with lighted candles
  • Shops are open much of the day and celebrations
    do not start before the afternoon.

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Did You Know
  • Pre-Christmas time begins with St. Martin's Day
    on November 11, then goes on to St. Andreas' on
    November 30, then forth to St. Barbara's and St.
    Nikolaus' on December 4-6, really approaching
    Christmas with St. Lucia's on December 13 and St.
    Thomas' on December 21, and finishing the holiday
    time with Three Kings and Epiphany on January 6th

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Resources
  • http//www.theholidayspot.com/christmas/worldxmas/
    germany.htm
  • http//www.germanculture.com.ua/library/weekly/aa1
    20100a.htm
  • http//www.germanculture.com.ua/library/weekly/aa1
    20298a.htm
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Germany

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  • www.santas.net/germanchristmas.htm
  • http//www.christmas-projects.com/html/christmas_i
    n_germany.html
  • Germany A portrait of the country through its
    festivals and traditions by Grolier
  • Christmas in Germany by World book
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