Mantle Sunday
The jacket Sunday is an unofficial holiday, which is celebrated in many cities in Germany and Luxembourg.
Germany
Nowadays, Mantle Sunday is still celebrated in numerous, predominantly Catholic cities as a shopping Sunday in October, for example in
- Ahaus
- Aschaffenburg
- Bad Brueckenau
- Bad Kissingen
- Bad Kreuznach
- Bad Neustadt an der Saale
- Beckum
- Bingen
- Bark
- Idar-Oberstein
- Lahr
- Limburg on the Lahn
- Lohr am Main
- Mainz
- Miltenberg
- Neumarkt-Sankt Veit
- Neunkirchen (Saar)
- Oberkirch
- Osterhofen
- Passau
- Prüm
- Püttlingen
- Rosenheim
- Saarlouis
- Schleswig
- Schwandorf
- Schweighausen
- Schweinfurt
- Speyer
- trier
- Worms
- Wurzburg
Criticisms on Mantle Sunday come in particular from the churches , which see it as a violation of the Sunday rest and the Sabbath commandment or the Sunday commandment . In Bad Kreuznach it was banned a few days beforehand following a complaint by the Verdi union.
Luxembourg
In Luxembourg , numerous shops are open on "Mantelsunday" ( luxemb .: Mantelsonndeg) . In earlier times in Luxembourg, too, this was the last opportunity for rural residents to buy a coat for a visit to the cemetery on All Saints' Day . Nowadays it is just another way to go shopping in Luxembourg.
Individual evidence
- ^ "Mantle Sunday": Please go shopping! , Luxemburger Wort online, October 22, 2016.