Visiting one of these markets isn’t just a holiday outing; it’s stepping into a tradition that has evolved over centuries while keeping its essence intact. Photo by Dar1930 German Christmas ...

However, a German Panorama-style documentary has ... Alongside Klaasohm, some of Europe’s other rowdy Christmas traditions are being re-evaluated. In Tirol in Austria, a masked Krampus monster ...

And this is because every year the royals exchange gifts a day earlier, on Christmas Eve, which is a festive tradition from parts of mainland Europe including Germany. Royal commentator Richard ...

At the time in Germany, decorating Christmas trees with candles, fruits, etc. was already a tradition that has settled in. The Victorians, however, produced the idea of hanging up non-natural ...

on Christmas Eve. As Prince Harry explained in his memoir, Spare, it is “a German tradition that survived the anglicizing of the family surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.” In Germany, ...

and the name Windsor was adopted after the Castle of the same name.” Despite the change in name, German Christmas traditions have endured.