Christmas Market Strasbourg E-Book

Cristina Berna

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Seitenzahl: 42

Beschreibung

Christkindelsmärik is the Alsatian dialect name of the Christmas market in Strasbourg, held annually on the square in front of the Strasbourg Cathedral since 1570. Considered one of the most famous Christmas markets throughout Europe. The city benefits of a 16 million Euros profit from this 38 day long tradition. It is famous for its fragrance of mulled wine (French: vin chaud; German: Glühwein). Christkindelsmärik is the Alsatian dialect name of the Christmas market in Strasbourg, held annually on the square in front of the Strasbourg Cathedral since 1570. The citys pride is the grand Gothic cathedral. With 142 metres (466 feet), Strasbourg cathedral was the world's tallest building from 1647 to 1874 (227 years), when it was surpassed by St. Nikolai's Church, Hamburg. Today it is the sixth-tallest church in the world and the highest extant structure built entirely in the Middle Ages.

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About the authors

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: Christmas Market at the Place de la Cathedrale, Strasbourg

Inside: Vin chaud – mulled wine, Strasbourg Christmas Market

Below the view of the Ponts Couverts, the covered bridges and the Strasbourg cathedral behind. Built in the 13th century and no longer covered.

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Contents

Introduction

Short history

Strasbourg

Christmas Market

Nativity

Christmas tree

Ornaments

Food and Drink

City decoration

Terror Attack

Strasbourg cathedral with Christmas Market - the cathedral is one of the finest High Gothic churches ©Berna.

Introduction

The Christmas Market appears to have started in the late Middle Ages in Germany. The Middle Ages is a long historic period in Europe starting abt 500 AD with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and lasting to abt 1500 AD when the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery took over.

It started as 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 is a fair connected with the seasonal period and infused with our religion, which very much organized everybody’s lives back then.

In Medieval times, rights to hold fairs were often granted by the feudal lords to convents and bishoprics both as income generation for the religious work and as a city development tool. Many towns trace their prosperity to the market rights. The close association between the local cathedral and the Christmas market is still evident although the taxes now go elsewhere.

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: Stebunik

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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.