I am particularly fond of collecting market postcards and this season I have been lucky enough to receive several of German Christmas markets.
The one above is a gorgeous maxi-card showing the Dresden market known as the Striezelmarkt. The name derives from "Stollen", a traditional German fruit bread, but the Dresden version is richer and contains more fruit than the other recipes.
The Nuremberg market is called Christkindlesmarkt, and is held in front of the Frauenkiche. Every year, a young girl (strangely) acts as the Christ Child, and makes an opening speech from the church balcony.
Cologne, too has a Christmas market, in fact it has five of them! I think I would suffer from overload with all that going on.
Christmas and the markets are well and truly over, of course, but some postal delay meant that I'm still finding cards arriving.
Gosh I love these postcards and I would love to be there during the Christmas season especially at Nuremberg since that is supposed to be the oldest from what I was told. I thought she was the new angel..oh well:) My mom grew up in Wittenberg and each town has their own market like this. One day....
ReplyDeleteYou may be right about the new angel. I'm no expert :)
DeleteWhere would you find these postcards as I live in the United States?
ReplyDeleteYou'd have to get someone to send you them from Germany. Are you a member of Postcrossing, or one of the Facebook exchange groups. There are all sorts of ways.
DeleteHi Sheila,
ReplyDeleteI'm a member of Postcrossing but am unfamiliar with the Facebook exchange groups.
If you're a member of Postcrossing, I think possibly the easiest way would be to join the forum and post in the Requests, Trades and Offers thread.
DeleteRead through what's already there and see how it works. I notice today there is someone from Germany wanting US map or state cards, so maybe she can help, or post your own requests and offers, or both.
One of the Facebook groups is https://www.facebook.com/groups/2208955025/ but I know there are others - I just haven't found them.
Actually, as I looked up that Facebook link, I found a list of related links in the sidebar:
Deletehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/508776712533174/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/672575422800211
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1598792780408052
I hope these help
Beautiful cards. Dear friends from my youth did a Danube river cruise last year in early December and enjoyed an Austrian Christmas market. In spite of the cold, they really enjoyed that cruise and seeing all the cities decorated for Christmas.
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