Anticipation of the festival.
A stroll over the Christmas market belongs to most Germans at the Advent season. Mulled wine and sweet treats attract millions of visitors every year to festively lighted stands.
Previously it was meat and potatoes, which were offered as winter items at the late medieval sales shows at the beginning of the cold season. It is only since the first half of the 20th century that the markets in Germany have become a fixed element of pre-Christmas customs. Some of them have gained world renown, often due to regional specialties such as the Aachen Christmas market with the gingerbread-like prints or the dresdner striezelmarkt(ตลาดคริสมาสในเดรสเดน) with its christstollen.
The Nurnberg christkindlesmarkt(Christmas market, Where the Christ Child is at home) is also one of the best known markets in the world. It's no wonder, because the Christ Child is the person to be here. The Goldlockte angel is chosen since 1969 by the residents of Nurnberg and is allowed to open the market with a speech. The Frankfurt Christmas market was mentioned for the first time in 1393 and belongs to the oldest markets in Germany. For a number of years now, "Frankfurt Christmas Markets" have been attracting many supporters as German export ships in Great Britain. With Munich, Christmas fans usually link the big market on the Marienplatz. But the Bavarian state capital also offers a change to the usual Christmas glitter: since 1991 the Tollwood Winterfestival has been held as an alternative Christmas market with cultural programs, minting and bio-gastronomy.
By the way, most visitors to the Rhine can look forward to the Rhine metropolises of Kӧln: in front of Cologne cathedral, about five million guests warm themselves in five weeks of the shaking hands of punch and mulled wine. But it is not just superlatives that are in demand for festive market players. As the Fachhochschule(University of Applied Sciences) Südwestfalen found in a survey, cosiness was an important visitor criterion. The markets of Heidelberg, Karlsruhe and Garmisch-Partenkirchen are among the most cozy German Christmas markets. Visitors to the Christmas market in Wiesbaden, Kalsruhe and Mainz are especially keen on Christmas.