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Just how German are "German Christmas Markets"? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world to c/askuk@feddit.uk

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All the staff are bloody English! How am I meant to practice German if none of them bloody speak it?!

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[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are these actually a German thing, or just one of those things that is attributed to Germany that doesn't happen there?

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They are a German thing that does happen in Germany in pretty much most inner cities. At least for the bigger ones.

Christmas markets date to the Late Middle Ages in the German-speaking part of Europe and in many parts of the former Holy Roman Empire that included many eastern regions of France.[2] They became a popular Advent custom during the Reformation era.[1] Dresden's Striezelmarkt was first held in 1434 and one of the first true Christmas markets;[5] earlier markets of the season were "December markets".[5][6] Early mentions of these "December markets" can be found in Vienna (1298),[7] Munich (1310),[5] Bautzen (1384),[8] and Frankfurt (1393).[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_market

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks! That would be fun to go to one day.

[–] snaprails@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago

I went to one in Bonn but as it was so long ago that Bonn was still the capital of West Germany I don't remember it will enough to say how it compares to Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh etc. Also went to Cologne cathedral and there was some b*****d in a kilt standing outside playing the bagpipes