Kiel Christmas Market
The Kiel Christmas market traditionally takes place during Advent in downtown Kiel . At Holstenplatz ⊙ and Asmus Bremer-Platz ⊙ , various delicacies as well as Christmas handicrafts and decorative items are on offer.
history
The Kiel Christmas market took place for the first time in 1973. The year before, the sailing competitions of the 1972 Summer Olympics were held in Kiel , which gave the city's infrastructure a strong boost, which can still be felt today.
Christmas market 2019
The Christmas market takes place from November 25th to December 23rd, 2019.
The Kiel Christmas mugs
Various hot drinks such as punch (with or without alcohol) are served at several stalls. Since simple cardboard or plastic cups are not well suited for such drinks, ceramic cups were purchased by the Kiel city council on a trial basis in 1991.
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For this purpose, a mobile dishwasher was set up, with the help of which the cups could be cleaned under hygienic conditions. These cups, which were initially made available in small numbers, quickly achieved cult status among visitors to the Christmas market, so that in the following years the cups were given out for a deposit . Since then, customers have received a deposit token when they buy a hot drink, so that they can be reimbursed the deposit amount (as of 2017: two euros) when they return the empty cup.
Cup motifs
The motifs printed on the rim of the mug varied until 2017. A “ running gag ” could be described as the fact that every year the Kiel town hall with the typical town hall tower is part of the motif. Sometimes the motifs are alienated in the application of artistic freedom ; so are z. B. the sales booths on the town hall square never existed in the form shown.
Since 1995, the cup motif has been supplemented by other components, some of which are also understandable to non-Kielers through appropriate labeling.
Another, recurring motif was used from 2009 to 2016: a sailing ship "pulled" by a team of reindeer.
List of Christmas mugs
| year | labeling | description | image |
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| 1991 | Kiel Christmas Market | Town hall (always shown with some "sales booths") |
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| 1992 | Kiel Christmas Market 1992 | town hall |
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| 1993 | Kiel Christmas Market 1993 | town hall |
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| 1994 | Kiel Christmas Market 1994 | town hall |
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| 1995 | Kiel Christmas Market 1995 | Town hall, HDW - portal cranes , museum harbor |
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| 1996 |
Kiel Christmas Market 1996 St. Nicolaikirche |
Nikolaikirche , museum harbor, town hall |
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| 1997 |
Kiel Christmas Market 1997 St. Nicholas Church at |
St. Nicholas Church , Town Hall |
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| 1998 |
Kiel Christmas Market 1998 University Church Westring |
University Church , Town Hall |
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| 1999 |
Kiel Christmas Market 1999 for the year 2000 |
Kiel monastery , town hall |
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| 2000 |
Kiel Christmas Market 2000 50 years of the |
Vicelin Church , Town Hall |
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| 2001 |
Kiel Christmas Market 2001 St. Heinrich Church |
St. Heinrich Church , town hall |
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| 2002 |
Kiel Christmas Market 2002 Paulus Church |
Pauluskirche , town hall |
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| 2003 |
Kiel Christmas Market 2003 100 years of Ansgar Church |
Ansgar Church , Town Hall |
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| 2004 |
Kiel Christmas Market 2004 Jakobikirche |
Jakobikirche , town hall |
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| 2005 |
Kiel Christmas Market 2005 Old Town Hall around 1845 |
City Hall, Historic City Hall (destroyed in 1943) |
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| 2006 |
Kiel Christmas Market 2006 Old University in the castle garden |
City Hall, Old University (destroyed in 1944) |
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| 2007 |
35th Kiel Christmas Market 2007 100 years of Petrus Church |
Town hall, Petruskirche |
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| 2008 |
36th Kiel Christmas Market 2008 Bethlehem Church |
Town Hall, Bethlehem Church |
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| 2009 |
37th Kiel Christmas Market 2009 Bethlehem Church |
Town Hall, Bethlehem Church, sailing ship |
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| 2010 |
38th Kiel Christmas Market 2010 Paul-Gerhardt Church |
Town hall, Paul Gerhardt Church , sailing ship |
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| 2011 |
Kiel Christmas Market 2011 100 Years of the Good Shepherd |
Town hall, church “To the good shepherd” , sailing ship |
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| 2012 |
40th Kiel Christmas Market 2012 100 years of the Luther Church |
Town hall, Luther Church , sailing ship |
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| 2013 |
41st Kiel Christmas Market 2013 St. Gabriel |
Town hall, Church of St. Gabriel , sailing ship |
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| 2014 |
42nd Kiel Christmas Market 2014 Andreas Church |
Town hall, St. Andreas Church (Kiel-Wellingdorf), sailing ship |
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| 2015 |
43rd Kiel Christmas Market 2015 Uni Kiel - at the top for 350 years! |
Town hall, official seal of the Christian-Albrechts-University , sailing ship |
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| 2016 |
44th Kiel Christmas Market 2016 150 years of Maria Magdalenen Church |
Town hall, Maria Magdalenen Church , sailing ship |
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| 2017 |
Kiel Christmas Market The original since 1973 |
Laboer Memorial , Maritime Museum , Nikolaikirche, telecommunications tower , opera house , water tower , town hall, gantry crane, Holtenau lighthouse , Gorch Fock |
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Kiel Christmas Village
Since the Advent season of 2016, another sales area has been added with the Kiel Christmas Village. This year, for the first time, newly constructed wooden huts and two bar houses were built on the town hall square on an area of around 3000 m².
As a special highlight , the motif of the above-mentioned sailing ship is taken up: three times a day a sailing cog with a team of reindeer and Christmas elves is pulled up to the roof of the town hall .
Picture gallery
Entrance gate
Bar
Christmas tree sale
The "Santa's sailing ship"
Christmas village mug
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b kieler-weihnachtsmaerkte.de: Information on the Kiel Christmas markets . Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
- ^ “Traces of 1972: The Olympic Games Shaped the City” on shz.de, accessed on November 13, 2015
- ↑ Responsible for the Christmas market is the civil and regulatory office in Kiel, subject area market affairs . (Information on kiel.de, accessed on November 13, 2015)
- ↑ website of the Christmas village ; accessed on November 30, 2017
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