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At the Heidelberg Christmas market you can stroll past the wooden huts to the smell of mulled wine, Christmas cookies and almonds. There are handicrafts, Christmas decorations, Christmas tree decorations and maybe one or the other Christmas present for the family.
Easter fountains are popular destinations in Franconia in spring. Especially in Franconia and the Upper Palatinate you can see Easter fountains on the village squares of many rural communities in the weeks before Easter.
Ostrich eggs in all colors whirl through the air on the bike. Eggs dangle in the wind on the forsythia. Easter bunnies peek out from between the flower beds in the Stipsits family's front yard. It's Easter time in Stinatz. For Erika Stipsits, this means that she now hardly does anything other than decorate eggs.
When Krampus and Perchten are around at Christmas in Salzburg, all hell breaks loose in the Gnigl district. The rough fellows accompany Saint Nicholas on his way through the Salzburg foothills of the Alps before December 6th.
You can admire them until the beginning of February, the landscape cribs in the private houses in Ebensee in the Salzkammergut. Then private individuals open their houses to visitors at the Kripperlroas in Ebensee in Upper Austria.
Every year at the Gengenbach Christmas market in the Black Forest there is the Advent calendar Gengenbach in Baden-Württemberg with its changing motifs. The scent of roasted almonds and mulled wine then fills the air in Gengenbach in the Black Forest.
At Christmas in Salzburg A strange vehicle is on the way. Christmas time in Salzburg in the Salzburger Land. A tractor decorated with fir branches pulls an extraordinary car behind it. A wooden hut is set up on the loading area. Similar to the tractor, it is densely decorated with green fir trees and the front side is emblazoned with the large inscription “Krampusse auf Tour”. Krampuses [...]
