MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE! I hope you enjoy this roundup of all my favourite Christmas markets in Germany and be sure to click here for a full list: happytowander.com/the-best-christmas-markets-in-germany/ Which one is your favourite?
Can't believe you left off Nurnburg? This is the place that starts the Christmas Season off after Thanksgiving with the Golden Rausch Angel ceremony. You have to see it to believe it. Should be on everyone bucket list.
I absolutely agree!!! Who makes a video about German Christmas Markets and does not know about the one in Nuremberg (Nürnberg) has obviously a lack of education or research ! That´s ridiculous !🙄🙄🙄
I was in Germany for 2weeks when i was in the Army i would have love to go back there for Christmas but i am fully disabled i am on oxygen 24/7 now but would love to try their Christmas chocolate and the Christmas cookies from there
Hey there I gotta ask you if you have a Aldi store in your area they have German Christmas items ( I can't get enough of the butter spekulazien cookies) 😋😋or you could possible order online .I am missing the German Christmas markets being a Germ myself, well Happy Holdidays stay safe
With only a few weeks left to December I can't help but miss the amazing Christmas times I had in Germany last year as an exchange student. The spirit really is something different from what we have at home in Sweden. For one, many of my German friends started thinking about Christmas in already in September :)
German Christmas is the best and it's even better when you have German friends or family to celebrate with. I was there more than 12 years and I think if I ever go back to Germany I will go in December.
Loved all your selections but we would have picked Nurenburg as #1. On the day after Thanksgiving, the opening ceremony for all German Christmas markets begins in Nurenburg with the Golden Raush Angel. Something not to be missed. We also loved Regensburg. Loved all your small town selections. We were planning on going on a Christmas River Cruise this year which would have included Colene which we had visited once before but would have been great to see it again during Christmas. Looks like we will have to wait until 2021. Stay Safe and Thanks for your list.
This list is strangely geared toward the west of western Germany. What about the north? Lübeck is stunning at Christmas. Wismar? Bremen? Hamburg? Berlin has some great markets (some of them only pop up for one weekend), Potsdam, too! Apart from Dresden, you forgot the East entirely. The Iron Ore mountain range region´s whole economy is based on Christmas and the traditional crafts from there.
WHY DO YOU RECOMMAND THESE TOWNS NOT PRESENTED IN THIS CLIP ? POURQUOI RECOMMANDEZ VOUS LES MARCHES DANS CES VILLES QUI N'ONT PAS ETE DECRITES DANS CE CLIP ? CES VILLES DU NORD SONT TRES CONNUES DE DIETER BOHLEN DU GROUPE MODERN TALKING, ALORS JE SUIS IMPATIENT DE SAVOIR CE QU'IL Y A DE PLUS QU'AILLEURS EN ALLEMAGNE. WHAT ELSE TO SEE IN THESE TOWNS ?
Thank you very much for producing this vid. While I will likely never get to actually visit these places in this lifetime, it was the next best thing to being there.
Glad to have come across your Christmas market videos... I love the whole European Christmas thing, I spent December 2009 in some cities in the Netherlands and Germany, Brussels and Paris on Christmas Day. Your videos make me miss those wonderful Christmas times...
Do it! Christmas in Germany is the best. I lived there from 2004 to 2017. Usually the bigger markets start in the last week or two of November and end 23 December. The smaller cities and towns usually have shorter markets, some as short as only one weekend. The Christmas markets I have been to include Wiesbaden (my favorite but I am biased since that was my home for 12+ years), Mainz, Frankfurt am Main, Rüdesheim am Rhein, Idstein (very cute but short), Wiesbaden-Naurod (Wiesbaden suburb where I actually lived- it only lasts one weekend)...I can't recall any others.
Loved your video but you missed some of the best from my point of view. If you loved Dresden you will also love Leipzig Christmas Market. From there you should check out "Quedlinburg's Advent in den Höfen", the Christmas Market in Chemnitz, and of course one at least in the Ore Mountains which is known as the Christmas Wonderland in Germany. A must-see is Seiffen where traditional handmade christmas decorations are made. In this area, you should visit Schwarzenberg or Annaberg-Buchholz where there is a traditional miners parade on the Advent Sundays take place. Also don't miss out the opportunity to take place in a traditional "Mettenschicht" - it is Ore Mountain christmas magic.
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Thanks! I did mention it at the end briefly but the main reason for excluding it is I visited years ago before I started blogging so I have no good footage at all! It’s definitely a nice one though :)
@@HappytoWander You mentioned Frankfurt am Main and Mainz, both good ones for sure but missed my personal favorite right across the river from Mainz in Wiesbaden, the "Sternschnuppenmarkt." If you check it out try to make it to the opening night. It's amazing.
@@HappytoWander It`s a "Nice one though"??? ARE you kidding??? It´s the world`s most famous one and the most important in Germany, also historically. There, the German Christmas Market Season is opened every year with a stunning historical event, "the appearance of the Nuremberger Christkindl with her annual speech" (woman dressed up in a stunning angel`s costume) in the historical scenery of the town of Nürnberg. Also the world`s most famous(by far) Lebkuchen comes from there, German Christmas is not the same without them, they are send in the whole world for Christmas. It`s like making a video about the Skyscrapers in New York, but then not even showing the Chrysler Building for some seconds! "Nice one though"...huh ! That`s simply ridiculous!
I recommend you take a look at the old German Christmas market in Bad Wimpfen, it's a small town, but a very nice Christmas market. Thanks for your nice video.
How nostalgic I have become about pre-covid Christmas times where we all could go and visit Christmas markets anywhere around the globe without being afraid of getting infected or having the necessity to wearing protective masks😭 Missing Germany too. My last pre-covid time Christmas out of the country had been in London. Before that in Glasgow. Otherwise, in my country.
My favourite was heidelberg. This would be a nice vacation trip if someone could organize visiting each market by bus trip and hotels, including meals. I would sign up.
Thanks for sharing. Would love to see an updated version of this vlog with recommendations on the amount of time you would recommend for each city based on the size and type of markets in each place. (e.g. how big is the market in each city, are there multiple markets etc etc). It would also be great (if you do update) to possibly include a recommended train route.
Would to know where you can buy old fashion ginger bread Santa. With white icing paper sticker of him of him dressed in long coat. Remember the cookies as a kid growing up in a germen family.
My very favorite market was in the small village of Sankt Wendel, only half an hour from where we lived in the Kaiserslautern area. It had a regular market along with a medieval market. It was quaint, cozy, and had a great selection of all kinds of things. The only con is that it’s only open for one or two weekends, can’t remember for sure.
Try to visit Trier next year, like Aachen it's framed by a great cathedral and it's a lovely city with lots of (roman) history. It's one of the loveliest Christmas markets I've visited. And from there it's not too far to Bernkastel, a lovely oldy worldy (albeit small) town next to the river.
There are some very good Christmas markets (Weihnachtsmarkt) in Braunschweig, Wolfenbuettel, Goslar, Wernigerode, Hannover, Bremen and lots more. I love Germany at Christmas, they really have the Christmas Spirit.
Thank you so much for this video. I'm fortunate to live close to Aachen, Cologne and Monschau, so a visit to these three christmas markets is a must every year. Sadly this year all of them are cancled due to the pandemic.
I LOVE CHRISTMAS MARKET... for me it is a MUST. ! but you could also do a video about the Jewish Hanukah which is most of them time around that time and it is also amusing for to acknowledge like in Golders Green in London UK or the Jewish new year which is in the autumn. Lovely lively time of the year for both and so ENJOYABLE.
Good job producing and narrating, but I’ve traveled all over the world for Christmas markets, and Nuremberg is rightly considered the best in the world. And another that often makes the list is Rothenburg. Big oversight to not have either in the top 10.
As a professional Christmas Market organiser, I enjoyed your video. Like you, I travel all over Europe visiting Christmas markets every year. There is nothing better to revive the thrill of Christmas just like when you were a child. You have shown lots of gorgeous photos of the markets you have been to, and it’s true most of them are adorably pretty. But can I urge your followers to also consider the quality and ethics of what is being sold in some of these chalets. For example, in Bavaria they have a century old tradition of making exquisitely beautiful, wooden Christmas tree decorations from Erzgebirge region, but sadly many Christmas markets are now full of cheap copies of these old crafts imported from China putting the real craftspeople out of business. Another issue is that in some towns, it’s a handful of business people who monopolise all the chalets. Nuremberg, for example has lots of its chalets run by the same person.... pushing out all the smaller independent businesses. Also, the more Christmas markets you visit in Germany the more you realise 80% of them are all selling the same mass produced stuff. It’s sometimes the smallest, more rural ones that sell the nicest, the most unique, the most German and the most genuinely artisan things. Other Christmas markets I have visited are Bamberg, Wurzburg, Hannover, Hamburg and Nuremberg all of which I wouldn’t return to. Rothenberg-an-der Tauber on the Medieval Romantic Route is chocolate box pretty as a town at Christmas and worth a visit though the Christmas Market isn’t that special. Of the big towns Munich so far is my favourite and the one I’d recommend first. There are more than just 3 markets there if you count the Crib Market and the airport market too! You can also go from there by train or Flixbus to Innsbruck or Salzburg in just over 2 hours, where there are Austrian Christmas markets to visit too. ( I don’t rate Innsbruck CM that greatly though). If you want to see the tiniest Christmas Market ever, go to Fulpmes, the last stop on a tram ride up into the mountains beyond Innsbruck. There you will find a teeny weeny but very charming Christmas market if 10 lovingly constructed and decorated chalets where all the locals congregate every evening. Just delightful. I hope this might help some of your followers.
Well stated, I travelled to Copenhagen last year for Christmas and while I loved Copenhagen and all their Christmas Markets' decor, the gifts were for the most part , I would say 90%, made in china and the same gifts at each market. This for me was very disappointing as I was hoping to find some handmade Christmas gifts by local artists. I was lucky to find a vendor from Russia that sold small wooden Christmas trees, that were wonderful. I agree. I believe there should be strict rules on what the vendors can sell. At least the majority of their markets crafts should be stuff sold by locals, to support the local communities, and keep traditional crafts alive.
Can you tell me what might be good ones to visit between Christmas and New Years? We plan to visit Europe for a few weeks this Christmas and want to make sure we are somewhere that still has stuff going on (we did Prague last time and New Years there and it was terrific!)
@@luvnailz Hello Jessica, I think that due to Covid, no Christmas Markets are certain at present, be it in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic or even England. Normally they would have been announced months ago, but they seem to all be put on hold for now. In normal times, the dates would have been announced months ago. Regrettably nothing is certain this year, yet again. If you want to ask again nearer November, I'll try to help advize.
@stephaniea-s3750 Thank you for your honest coment, it helped me alot. What´s your opinion on Cologne city during Christmas time? Im very tempted to go there this year.
If You visit Aachen a must is also the Christmas market in Valkenburg (NL) it is insite the "Municipal Marl Caves" Just under 30 minutes by train ore car from Aachen.
I lived in Augsburg and they had a wonderful Christmas market...why does everyone not knoe about it??? Happy for you that Munich is your home...must be nice.
Oof😢 Mein Bruder zieht nächsten Monat nach Dresden und hoffentlich kann ich ihn in der Weihnachtszeit oft besuchen, um dort hingehen zu können. Ich liebe diesen Weihnachtsmarkt einfach
Merry Christmas ♨️ To German from chaotic Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🐭 Just watching this scenery makes me feel at home . May an unexpected good event come to German at Christmas 😃
I am a german and i Love our Christmas markets around the country, but the best i've ever seen is " le petit France "" in Strassbourg in France near by the german border ,defenetly a" must see". 🎅🤶
My wife and I are new to your channel and absolutely love your content. You were asking for recommendations in your video. Have you been to Regensburg, specifically the Christmas market at the Thurn and Taxis palace? It should definitely be on everyone's list. Thank you for the great travel videos.
Is there a Christmas market itinerary , which cities to visit ( in order) that you could share ? I've always wanted to visit Germany & this would be a great trip to get me in the holiday spirit in 2021 :) .
It's a pity that you didn't visit the christmas markets of northern Germany. Bremen, Lüneburg and Lübeck have wonderful christmas markets. An don't forget Hamburg. You will find a great veriaty of christmas market there: The White Market at the Alster, the handcraft Market at the Rathaus or Santa Pauli on Reeperbahn etc. The Northern Christmas Markets are worth visiting.
Hi Christina, I love your videos on Christmas Markets in Germany. I am looking forward to going there when the travel bubble opens. Are there any snow in the places that you have shown in your videos?
MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE! I hope you enjoy this roundup of all my favourite Christmas markets in Germany and be sure to click here for a full list: happytowander.com/the-best-christmas-markets-in-germany/
Which one is your favourite?
Monschau is 👌seriously
Looking like so calming 🙂
It really is such a magical place! I’d highly recommend it 🥰 thanks for watching!
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We lived in Germany for 5 years. Really miss their Christmas markets. Never got to Berlin. Thank you for sharing these . God Bless you.
Salt burg Christmas tams market
You should visit the Christmas market in Lübeck. An incomparable medieval atmosphere close to the Baltic Sea!
You should visit the Christmas market
Can't believe you left off Nurnburg? This is the place that starts the Christmas Season off after Thanksgiving with the Golden Rausch Angel ceremony. You have to see it to believe it. Should be on everyone bucket list.
I absolutely agree!!! Who makes a video about German Christmas Markets and does not know about the one in Nuremberg (Nürnberg) has obviously a lack of education or research ! That´s ridiculous !🙄🙄🙄
I was in Germany for 2weeks when i was in the Army i would have love to go back there for Christmas but i am fully disabled i am on oxygen 24/7 now but would love to try their Christmas chocolate and the Christmas cookies from there
I wish US Army would close in Germany, we don't need that
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@@YujiroHanmaaaa Who is we? Are you speaking for my Country Germany? 🍁
US out of EU
Hey there I gotta ask you if you have a Aldi store in your area they have German Christmas items ( I can't get enough of the butter spekulazien cookies) 😋😋or you could possible order online .I am missing the German Christmas markets being a Germ myself, well Happy Holdidays stay safe
you forgot Erfurt 😫 the Weihnachtsmarkt here never fails to impress and gets everyone in the mood for christmas😻😻🎄
With only a few weeks left to December I can't help but miss the amazing Christmas times I had in Germany last year as an exchange student. The spirit really is something different from what we have at home in Sweden. For one, many of my German friends started thinking about Christmas in already in September :)
German Christmas is the best and it's even better when you have German friends or family to celebrate with. I was there more than 12 years and I think if I ever go back to Germany I will go in December.
Looks like I need to start learning German.
I love Heidelberg at Christmas.
Loved all your selections but we would have picked Nurenburg as #1. On the day after Thanksgiving, the opening ceremony for all German Christmas markets begins in Nurenburg with the Golden Raush Angel. Something not to be missed. We also loved Regensburg. Loved all your small town selections. We were planning on going on a Christmas River Cruise this year which would have included Colene which we had visited once before but would have been great to see it again during Christmas. Looks like we will have to wait until 2021. Stay Safe and Thanks for your list.
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This list is strangely geared toward the west of western Germany. What about the north? Lübeck is stunning at Christmas. Wismar? Bremen? Hamburg? Berlin has some great markets (some of them only pop up for one weekend), Potsdam, too! Apart from Dresden, you forgot the East entirely. The Iron Ore mountain range region´s whole economy is based on Christmas and the traditional crafts from there.
I enjoyed the Christmas Markets in Hamburg, Bremen, Luebeck and Hanover 🥳🎄🎉🎁🎄❄ Recommend!
WHY DO YOU RECOMMAND THESE TOWNS NOT PRESENTED IN THIS CLIP ? POURQUOI RECOMMANDEZ VOUS LES MARCHES DANS CES VILLES QUI N'ONT PAS ETE DECRITES DANS CE CLIP ? CES VILLES DU NORD SONT TRES CONNUES DE DIETER BOHLEN DU GROUPE MODERN TALKING, ALORS JE SUIS IMPATIENT DE SAVOIR CE QU'IL Y A DE PLUS QU'AILLEURS EN ALLEMAGNE. WHAT ELSE TO SEE IN THESE TOWNS ?
Thank you very much for producing this vid. While I will likely never get to actually visit these places in this lifetime, it was the next best thing to being there.
Glad to have come across your Christmas market videos... I love the whole European Christmas thing, I spent December 2009 in some cities in the Netherlands and Germany, Brussels and Paris on Christmas Day. Your videos make me miss those wonderful Christmas times...
This was fabulous! I want to explore Christmas in Europe (as soon as Covid is over!).
Do it! Christmas in Germany is the best. I lived there from 2004 to 2017. Usually the bigger markets start in the last week or two of November and end 23 December. The smaller cities and towns usually have shorter markets, some as short as only one weekend. The Christmas markets I have been to include Wiesbaden (my favorite but I am biased since that was my home for 12+ years), Mainz, Frankfurt am Main, Rüdesheim am Rhein, Idstein (very cute but short), Wiesbaden-Naurod (Wiesbaden suburb where I actually lived- it only lasts one weekend)...I can't recall any others.
Loved your video but you missed some of the best from my point of view. If you loved Dresden you will also love Leipzig Christmas Market. From there you should check out "Quedlinburg's Advent in den Höfen", the Christmas Market in Chemnitz, and of course one at least in the Ore Mountains which is known as the Christmas Wonderland in Germany. A must-see is Seiffen where traditional handmade christmas decorations are made. In this area, you should visit Schwarzenberg or Annaberg-Buchholz where there is a traditional miners parade on the Advent Sundays take place. Also don't miss out the opportunity to take place in a traditional "Mettenschicht" - it is Ore Mountain christmas magic.
Hi! Really enjoyed the video.
One of my favorite Christmas markets is in Regensburg. The market inside the courtyard of Thurn und Taxis is wonderful.
They were dearly missed this past year 😔. Thank you for the upload ❤
The Christmas market of the lovely city of Baden-Baden (Black forest), is also worth seeing 😍🌲
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Ah yay! So happy you like them. Safe travels 🫶🫶🫶
How could you miss Nuremberg? An in readable market, one of the best.
I think you've missed Nurembergs Christkindlesmarkt. Maybe instead of Berlin? Otherwise great list!
Thanks! I did mention it at the end briefly but the main reason for excluding it is I visited years ago before I started blogging so I have no good footage at all! It’s definitely a nice one though :)
Nuremberg is WAY to crowded and touristy. It’s the Oktoberfest of Christmas Markets.
@@HappytoWander You mentioned Frankfurt am Main and Mainz, both good ones for sure but missed my personal favorite right across the river from Mainz in Wiesbaden, the "Sternschnuppenmarkt." If you check it out try to make it to the opening night. It's amazing.
@@HappytoWander It`s a "Nice one though"??? ARE you kidding???
It´s the world`s most famous one and the most important in Germany, also historically. There, the German Christmas Market Season is opened every year with a stunning historical event, "the appearance of the Nuremberger Christkindl with her annual speech" (woman dressed up in a stunning angel`s costume) in the historical scenery of the town of Nürnberg. Also the world`s most famous(by far) Lebkuchen comes from there, German Christmas is not the same without them, they are send in the whole world for Christmas.
It`s like making a video about the Skyscrapers in New York, but then not even showing the Chrysler Building for some seconds! "Nice one though"...huh !
That`s simply ridiculous!
I miss those days ! 😟 greetings from Transylvania 🌈
I recommend you take a look at the old German Christmas market in Bad Wimpfen, it's a small town, but a very nice Christmas market. Thanks for your nice video.
Nice! BUT der Nürnberger Weihnachtsmarkt must certainly be included as one of the top Christmas Markets in Germany!
Agreed
Absolutely.
100% 👍
How nostalgic I have become about pre-covid Christmas times where we all could go and visit Christmas markets anywhere around the globe without being afraid of getting infected or having the necessity to wearing protective masks😭
Missing Germany too. My last pre-covid time Christmas out of the country had been in London. Before that in Glasgow. Otherwise, in my country.
there are some wonderful Christmas markets in the north of Germany, too. Lübeck, Stade, Lüneburg, Bremen just to mention a few.
My favourite was heidelberg. This would be a nice vacation trip if someone could organize visiting each market by bus trip and hotels, including meals. I would sign up.
Germany - The place to be around the year. Great informative video. Love your sugary voiceover 😀
Christmas Markets in Europe is my Bucket List
Thanks for sharing. Would love to see an updated version of this vlog with recommendations on the amount of time you would recommend for each city based on the size and type of markets in each place. (e.g. how big is the market in each city, are there multiple markets etc etc). It would also be great (if you do update) to possibly include a recommended train route.
My personal favorite Christmas Market or "Weihnachtsmarkt" is the "Sternschnuppenmarkt" in Wiesbaden.
I’ll be there God willing next week to visit the Munich, Nuremberg , Switzerland and Vienna. Can’t wait.
These look like incredible choices and I really hope to visit any one of this when I visit Germany in Christmas! 🎄
Would to know where you can buy old fashion ginger bread Santa. With white icing paper sticker of him of him dressed in long coat. Remember the cookies as a kid growing up in a germen family.
In Nuremberg, you can get those sorts of Lebkuchen, besides a lot more !
You have done a great job putting this all together. Dresden is my hometown. I live overseas and miss it a lot :-)
It's beautiful 😍
Greetings from Dresden :-)
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Love you for Dresden #1 and mentioning the "Stallhof"
Thank you for the video on German Christmas Markets. Merry Christmas.🌎
LOVE ❤️ from the PHILIPPINES 🇵🇭
My very favorite market was in the small village of Sankt Wendel, only half an hour from where we lived in the Kaiserslautern area. It had a regular market along with a medieval market. It was quaint, cozy, and had a great selection of all kinds of things. The only con is that it’s only open for one or two weekends, can’t remember for sure.
A lovely atmospheric walk as always from you. It’s always a pleasure to walk along with you and experience new place’s especially at Christmas
Try to visit Trier next year, like Aachen it's framed by a great cathedral and it's a lovely city with lots of (roman) history. It's one of the loveliest Christmas markets I've visited. And from there it's not too far to Bernkastel, a lovely oldy worldy (albeit small) town next to the river.
There are some very good Christmas markets (Weihnachtsmarkt) in Braunschweig, Wolfenbuettel, Goslar, Wernigerode, Hannover, Bremen and lots more. I love Germany at Christmas, they really have the Christmas Spirit.
Don't forget the one in Rammelsberge 😊
Thank you so much for this video. I'm fortunate to live close to Aachen, Cologne and Monschau, so a visit to these three christmas markets is a must every year. Sadly this year all of them are cancled due to the pandemic.
I LOVE CHRISTMAS MARKET... for me it is a MUST. ! but you could also do a video about the Jewish Hanukah which is most of them time around that time and it is also amusing for to acknowledge like in Golders Green in London UK or the Jewish new year which is in the autumn. Lovely lively time of the year for both and so ENJOYABLE.
My favourite city and with best Christmas markets is köln ❤ visit every year my beautiful köln the city that stole my heart ❤️
I am going for my birthday next year and I am doing my research thanks so much!
Please also come to Austria! The Christmasmarkets in Vienna are soooooooo nice!!! 🎄⛄❄️🎁
You missed Lübeck! It's one of the most beautiful traditional markets. It's way up north in Schleswig-Holstein and has a maritime feeling to it.
Good job producing and narrating, but I’ve traveled all over the world for Christmas markets, and Nuremberg is rightly considered the best in the world. And another that often makes the list is Rothenburg. Big oversight to not have either in the top 10.
Yes, Rhotenburg is all year round the Santa's village!
As a professional Christmas Market organiser, I enjoyed your video. Like you, I travel all over Europe visiting Christmas markets every year. There is nothing better to revive the thrill of Christmas just like when you were a child.
You have shown lots of gorgeous photos of the markets you have been to, and it’s true most of them are adorably pretty. But can I urge your followers to also consider the quality and ethics of what is being sold in some of these chalets. For example, in Bavaria they have a century old tradition of making exquisitely beautiful, wooden Christmas tree decorations from Erzgebirge region, but sadly many Christmas markets are now full of cheap copies of these old crafts imported from China putting the real craftspeople out of business. Another issue is that in some towns, it’s a handful of business people who monopolise all the chalets. Nuremberg, for example has lots of its chalets run by the same person.... pushing out all the smaller independent businesses. Also, the more Christmas markets you visit in Germany the more you realise 80% of them are all selling the same mass produced stuff. It’s sometimes the smallest, more rural ones that sell the nicest, the most unique, the most German and the most genuinely artisan things.
Other Christmas markets I have visited are Bamberg, Wurzburg, Hannover, Hamburg and Nuremberg all of which I wouldn’t return to. Rothenberg-an-der Tauber on the Medieval Romantic Route is chocolate box pretty as a town at Christmas and worth a visit though the Christmas Market isn’t that special. Of the big towns Munich so far is my favourite and the one I’d recommend first. There are more than just 3 markets there if you count the Crib Market and the airport market too! You can also go from there by train or Flixbus to Innsbruck or Salzburg in just over 2 hours, where there are Austrian Christmas markets to visit too. ( I don’t rate Innsbruck CM that greatly though). If you want to see the tiniest Christmas Market ever, go to Fulpmes, the last stop on a tram ride up into the mountains beyond Innsbruck. There you will find a teeny weeny but very charming Christmas market if 10 lovingly constructed and decorated chalets where all the locals congregate every evening. Just delightful.
I hope this might help some of your followers.
Well stated, I travelled to Copenhagen last year for Christmas and while I loved Copenhagen and all their Christmas Markets' decor, the gifts were for the most part , I would say 90%, made in china and the same gifts at each market. This for me was very disappointing as I was hoping to find some handmade Christmas gifts by local artists. I was lucky to find a vendor from Russia that sold small wooden Christmas trees, that were wonderful. I agree. I believe there should be strict rules on what the vendors can sell. At least the majority of their markets crafts should be stuff sold by locals, to support the local communities, and keep traditional crafts alive.
Can you tell me what might be good ones to visit between Christmas and New Years? We plan to visit Europe for a few weeks this Christmas and want to make sure we are somewhere that still has stuff going on (we did Prague last time and New Years there and it was terrific!)
@@luvnailz Hello Jessica, I think that due to Covid, no Christmas Markets are certain at present, be it in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic or even England. Normally they would have been announced months ago, but they seem to all be put on hold for now. In normal times, the dates would have been announced months ago. Regrettably nothing is certain this year, yet again. If you want to ask again nearer November, I'll try to help advize.
Hi Stephanie which smaller markets are your top three?
@stephaniea-s3750 Thank you for your honest coment, it helped me alot. What´s your opinion on Cologne city during Christmas time? Im very tempted to go there this year.
So so love ur videos... bring back lots of childhood memories. Keep up 👍 with all these amazing video 🥰
Thank you so much for watching! 💝
If You visit Aachen a must is also the Christmas market in Valkenburg (NL) it is insite the "Municipal Marl Caves"
Just under 30 minutes by train ore car from Aachen.
But where is Hamburg?!?!? 😅 great video nevertheless 😘
I lived in Augsburg and they had a wonderful Christmas market...why does everyone not knoe about it??? Happy for you that Munich is your home...must be nice.
I live in Dresden, never would move anywhere else :)
Oof😢 Mein Bruder zieht nächsten Monat nach Dresden und hoffentlich kann ich ihn in der Weihnachtszeit oft besuchen, um dort hingehen zu können. Ich liebe diesen Weihnachtsmarkt einfach
Grüße aus der Wilsdrufer Vorstadt ! :-)
Merry Christmas ♨️
To German from chaotic Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🐭
Just watching this scenery makes me feel at home .
May an unexpected good event come to German at Christmas 😃
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Thank you so much to your wonderful footage
Good luck
Go for it
Someday please
come to Japan on Christmas
Love you videos it brings back so many memories, many thanks for all! 💗🎄🎅❄ Though Hamburg is missing :( otherwise marvelous! :)
A must visit to a Christmas market in Germany!
Christkindle Market is a Holiday favorite in Chicago
Nuremberg! It is Awesome in Nuremberg at Christmas. Leibkuchen!
I did not have Dresden on my Christmas market radar. I do now!
You are lucky, it has been my lifelong dream to travel globally. Nice video. Happy holidays.
I’ll be hitting some of these this December. I’m so excited since I don’t really have anything like this in Ohio.
Every Market is more charming than the other. But my favourite is still Cologne.
LOVE your style, the info . Isn't Nurembrg the oldest? Love this, thanks.
Nuremberg is the oldest and historically also the most important by far in Germany!
It´s worlwide known and beloved.
I haven't seen others, but I can say that Esslingen is wonderful.
I am a german and i Love our Christmas markets around the country, but the best i've ever seen is " le petit France "" in Strassbourg in France near by the german border ,defenetly a" must see". 🎅🤶
Very nice, have a merry christmas n a happy new year!
Best Christmas market we have seen! Nice job and thanks for sharing!
what about Rothenburg, in the summer they have a xmas store
This wonderful footage leads me into the marvelous and fantastic beautiful Christmas world
Happy 2020 Christina !!🎉 for many many more video and success!!!
Thank you so much, Natalie! Happy new year!
My wife and I are new to your channel and absolutely love your content. You were asking for recommendations in your video. Have you been to Regensburg, specifically the Christmas market at the Thurn and Taxis palace? It should definitely be on everyone's list. Thank you for the great travel videos.
One more vote for Lübeck, the international crafters' market at Heiligengeist is the most anticipated event of the year!
Thank you for the video 😄
Great videography 👍
Thank you for sharing the Christmas markets in Germany ♥️♥️♥️
Looks so festive and beautiful. I want to go there with you lol! 🎄👏❤️
You forgot Nürnberg.. Rothenburg and Schwarzenberg but the yours are Great, too
I'm charmed out of my stockings 🔥🎅
Not see Nuremberg? It is 1965 at Munich to Nuremberg and to Munich. It is 1-1-all see me.
Come to Leipzig. Its lovely. 😉
Rothenburg please, have been to most of the above, Cologne and Dresden are wonderful ❤️
beautiful video!
Great videos, really enjoy them. Appreciate that you don't just stick to the big, famous markets!
Dresden Xmas market - number One 🎄🥳🎉🎁🎄
Have you done a similar video for Austria? We did love Vienna during Christmas. I think they have 7 or 8 Christmas Markets around town.
What about Gelsenkirchen ? But it`s a great Video. Well Done.
What, No Nuremberg or Wuerzburg... Thanks for the Franken Mention at The End!
I hope we all can travel and experience those again very soon! Great video!
10 Aachen
9 dortmund
8 Düsseldorf
7 Stuttgart
Nearby city baroque’s market : Ludwigsburg, karlsruhe
6 Esslingen medieval market
5 Monschau
4 Berlin has 60 Xmas markets
3 Munich
2 cologne
1 Dresden
In addition: Frankfurt , Mainz , Nuremberg , Kempten, Obertsforf
humburg where my hushband stay. too.cold too.
April 2022 - and i just stumbled across this video.
Now i'm very hungry and wish it was Christmas and wish i was in Germany ;-)
Great round up, Merry Christmas
Thanks for watching!! Merry Christmas to you too :)
Great video! Really well written too! Keep up the good work as I just subscribed :) Cheers!!
Is there a Christmas market itinerary , which cities to visit ( in order) that you could share ? I've always wanted to visit Germany & this would be a great trip to get me in the holiday spirit in 2021 :) .
LOVED this! We have been talking about doing Christmas Markets just this week (as you do in August!). Great Vlog xx
It's a pity that you didn't visit the christmas markets of northern Germany. Bremen, Lüneburg and Lübeck have wonderful christmas markets. An don't forget Hamburg. You will find a great veriaty of christmas market there: The White Market at the Alster, the handcraft Market at the Rathaus or Santa Pauli on Reeperbahn etc.
The Northern Christmas Markets are worth visiting.
Absolutely stunning
Yes indeed a wonderful wonder where escape into a fariy tale world.
Hi Christina, I love your videos on Christmas Markets in Germany. I am looking forward to going there when the travel bubble opens. Are there any snow in the places that you have shown in your videos?
This was awesome! lol