Copper Sunday
In retail in Germany from the beginning to the middle of the 20th century, the third-last Sunday before Christmas was known as Copper Sunday .
This was especially true for department stores after the Golden and Silver Sundays as one of the sales days with the highest turnover of the year. Until 1957, the year the “ Law on Shop Closing ” was passed, a dispute arose for several years in a row over the number of Sundays open for sale each year. In 1955 a “Prohibition Act against Copper Sunday” was even passed in the German Bundestag , which was not approved by the Bundesrat .
With the nationwide shop closing law, the inconsistent municipal and state regulations were uniformly regulated in favor of the abolition of Copper Sunday.