The large-scale palace park is a popular destination for Berliners at any time of the year. Built for the Prussian Queen Sophie Charlotte, the palace is one of the most famous sights in Berlin.
At Christmas time, the palace complex is transformed into a romantic winter village with its wooden huts, white pagoda tents and large wooden pavilion with Christmas pyramid. Charlottenburg Palace and the park are bathed in colorful light.
to eat and drink
Typical Christmas specialties such as gingerbread, mulled wine, wood-fired bread and mushroom pans can be eaten at the market stalls. It's cozy in the heated pagodas, where you can drink coffee or enjoy Austrian specialties in the pagoda restaurant Der Vierte Mann.
The Stuttgarter Weihnachtsmarkt was first mentioned in city records in 1692 when it was described as a 'traditional Stuttgart event'. The modern Christmas Market encompasses around 200 stands and is visited by around 3.6 million people every year, making it one of the largest of its kind in Germany. In terms of area, Stuttgart Christmas Market is claimed by organisers to the one in Europe with most tradition.
The market stretches from the west and northern edge of Stuttgart's central square (Schlossplatz, where there is a children's 'fairytale land' alongside a miniature railway and ice rink) to the old squares and alleyways of Stuttgart, including Schillerplatz, Karlsplatz (featuring a Finnish Christmas Market and a Christmas collectors' fair) and Marktplatz.
The Christmas market opens every year on the last Thursday in November in the Renaissance inner quadrangle of Stuttgart Old Castle. It is open Monday to Saturday from 10am to 9pm and on Sundays from 11am to 9pm. The market finishes on Christmas Eve.
This traditional market, with roots dating back to the 14th century, is considered the original among Munich's Christmas markets. Against the romantic backdrop of the neo-Gothic town hall on Marienplatz, the village of stalls enchants with its old Bavarian charm and seduces all the senses. This is not only the home of living customs and old crafts but also of what is probably Germany's largest Nativity scene market.
Here you can find everything needed for a real Nativity scene – from the lantern for the stable to the gifts of the Magi. The first independent Nativity market was held in Munich as early as 1757, and this year the Christkindlmarkt at Marienplatz is scheduled to take place from 21 November to 24 December 2022.
The scene of the Christmas market is the Domplatz with the illuminated ensemble of Erfurt Cathedral and Severikirche in the background. Offshoots of the Christmas market can also be found in the rest of the city center of Erfurt and extend over the Fischmarkt , the Schlösserbrücke, the Anger to the Willy-Brandt-Platz . All in all, culinary specialties, handicrafts and Christmas accessories are offered in over 200 wooden houses. Thuringian specialties such as the Thuringian Bratwurst and the Erfurter Schittchen are particularly popular. The Erfurter Schittchen was first mentioned in 1329, making it one of the oldest Christmas stollen in Germany.
In the middle of the Christmas market, a 25 meter tall fir tree towers. Since 2005 there has been an eight meter high Christmas pyramid at the entrance to the Christmas market , which depicts people from Erfurt's history and Christmas scenes on five floors. Another attraction is the nativity scene with 14 almost life-size, hand-carved figures and the fairytale forest. The 170th Erfurt Christmas Market has been canceled for 2020.
When confronted with the truth about what their country was doing to the Jewish people (as well as travelers, people of color, and homosexuals) many of them couldn’t fathom the depths of evil they’d spent their careers serving.
German POWs were made to watch films of the concentration camps, forever scarring them with the knowledge that they were a cog in a truly disgusting machine.
Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg, nicknamed the Peaceful (3 May 1479 – 6 February 1552), was the reigning Duke of Mecklenburg in the region Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the son of Duke Magnus II and Sophie of Pomerania-Stettin.
Henry ruled jointly with his brothers Eric II and Albert VII and his uncle Balthasar from 27 December 1503. Balthasar died on 16 March 1507 and Eric on 22 December 1508, both without an heir, thus Henry and Albert came into possession of the whole country. They ruled jointly at first. Albert repeatedly advocated the division of the territories of Mecklenburg, and this was agreed to in the House Treaty of Neubrandenburg, sealed on 7 May 1520. The treaty stipulated that Henry rule in Schwerin and Albert in Güstrow, without a de facto division of the country.
It was during the reign of the brothers Henry and Albert that Martin Luther launched the Reformation, which quickly found supporters in Mecklenburg. Lutheran doctrine was preached there more or less openly as early as 1523 and perhaps even earlier. Duke Henry supported the new doctrine from the beginning, at first in a very cautious manner, and but more openly after the Diet of Augsburg in 1530. He corresponded with Luther beginning in 1524, and Luther sent him teachers and preachers.
Henry joined the League of Torgau on 12 June 1526, and in 1532 he finally came out publicly as a supporter of Luther. Naturally, his position led him to give the new doctrine a firm external and internal organization, so he asked Superintendent Johann Riebling, whom Luther had recommended to him in 1537, to draft a Church Order, a Catechism and an Agenda. For the remainder of his reign, he was occupied with the organization of the Lutheran church.
After Luther's death, a religious war erupted in Germany. Henry, however, did not participate; although he was a Protestant prince, he was not a member of the Schmalkaldic League. He resisted the introduction of the Augsburg Interim by Emperor Charles V in 1548. Henry approved the decision of the Mecklenburg estates of July 1549 that formally recognized by the Lutheran doctrine. Soon after, on 6 February 1552, he died with the reputation of a pious and peaceable prince.
