Christmas Market Nuremberg E-Book

Cristina Berna

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Seitenzahl: 42

Beschreibung

The Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt is one of the oldest Christmas markets in Germany. The pre-Christmas fair on Nurembergs main market square can be traced back to the middle of the 16th century. Martin Luther promoted the Christ Child or Christkindl as a gift bringer and the date of giving gifts changed from December 6 to Christmas Eve. But now she has strong competition from Santa Claus as gift bringer. You men and women who were once children too, be children again, says the Christkind, as she greets her guests on Nurembergs Main Market Square to open the Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt.

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Cristina Berna loves photographing and writing. She also creates designs and advice on fashion and styling.

Eric Thomsen has published in science, economics and law, created exhibitions and arranged concerts.

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Cover picture: Christkindlesmarkt 2018 Nürnberg 6 Dex 2018https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christkindlesmarkt_2018_N%C3%BCrnberg_134.jpg?uselang=de

Inside Rebekka Volland as Nürnberger Christkind, 14 Dec 2008https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nuernberger_Christkind_Rebekka_Volland.jpg?uselang=de

Below: Nuremberg Castle, really consisting of three castleshttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Frauenkirche_Munich_-_View_from_Peterskirche_Tower2.jpg

Next page: Fleischbrücke, 1496 (Renaiseance), clear span 27 m, width 13 m https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N%C3%BCrnberg_Fleischbr%C3%BCcke.jpg

Contents

Introduction

Short history

Nuremberg

Christmas Market

Nativity

Ornaments

Food and Drink

Entertainment

Christkindlesmarkt 2018 Nuremberg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christkindlesmarkt_2018_N%C3%BCrnberg_064.jpg?uselang=de

Introduction

The first evidence of a Christmas market in Nuremberg is a wooden box with an inscription from 1628. The box in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg. This is some 300 years later than the Munich Christmas market.

The Welcoming of Christ the Child – “Christ Kind” in German – at the beginning of the four Sundays of Advent that ends with Christmas Day, which is the 25 December.

The Christmas market in Nuremberg is one of the largest in Germany with abt 2 mio visitors and one of the most famous in the World.

The Nuremberg Kristkindlmarkt is different from some of the other markets we have shown, as Nuremberg became a Protestant city with the Reformation. You see this in the tradition of electing a Kristkind – a local girl which opens the market festivities. This Protestant tradition moves the focus from the original idea of Francis of Assisi, from the Nativity, which is now found here again.

Nativity: The Christ child in the manger, lying in a basket. The Three Holy Kings appearing to pay homage and offer rich gifts of treasure and essence. We will return to the Nativity later. ©Berna.

The Christmas market tradition has been revived and has now become a major holiday event. It has become a source of entertainment and enjoyment not only for the city and its local lands but for visitors from many other countries. Christmas markets have especially developed lightning to spread merriment in the dark Winter months and they vie with each other to be the best.

Short history

The Roman Empire was divided in two by Diocleatian in 284 AD. He believed the empire was too large to rule for one man and created the tetrarchy – a four man rule – with two rulers in the west (Maximian and Constantius the Pale) and two in the east (himself and Galerius).

Convinced of his own success he abdicated and soon the tetrarchy collapsed.

Constantine eventually restored order and became emperor in 305 AD and was the first Roman emperor who converted to Christianity.

In Europe the border between the Western and Eastern Roman empires was made up by the Sava river and parts of the Drini river that flows into the Sava river, today part of the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.

Emperor Constantine who ruled until 337 AD is known as Constantine I or Constantine the Great. He re-founded Byzans as “New Rome” until it became Constantinople.

First council of Nicaea in 325 AD, fresco in the Capella Sistina in the Vatican 1590, image: Stebunikhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cesare_Nebbia_Concile_de_Nic%C3%A9e_(1560)_-_crop_(1).jpg

Constantine promoted Christendom heavily and is often called the first Christian emperor. He called the first council of Nicaea in 325 AD which produced the Nicene Creed. The Nicene Creed affirms the doctrine of the holiness of the Son together with that of the Farther, the co-holiness of Jesus together with God.

The Eastern Roman empire created 11 May 330 AD, continued until 1453 AD, when it fell to the Ottoman Turks. The Byzantine empire was the most powerful economic, cultural and military power in Europe for the most of the thousand years it survived the fall and disintegration of the Western Roman empire.