After two cancellations in a row: city has big plans for world-famous Christmas market
Created: 01/29/2022 10:23 am
The Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt is one of the largest Christmas markets in Germany and one of the most famous in the world.
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After two years of cancellation, the Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt is to take place again in 2022.
If the city has its way, the starting shot should be fired earlier.
Nuremberg – For two years in a row, visitors, dealers and organizers of the Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt were left behind.
It was nothing with mulled wine, conviviality and good humor.
That should change in 2022.
The city has big plans, as reported by
Nordbayern.de
.
Those responsible are toying with the idea of opening the market two weeks earlier.
Business consultant Michael Fraas said to
Nordbayern.de
: "It's an option that we offer." The dealers are already in the starting blocks, because the application process is already underway and will last until the end of February.
By then, they are said to have given their opinion on whether the "possibly extended market duration" would be something for them or not.
Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt: Dealers should be able to make up for losses
As always, the original start is the first weekend in Advent (November 25, 2022).
If the dealers agree, it could start as early as November 14th.
In this way, the city of Nuremberg wants to offer the participants who have been hit by the corona pandemic the opportunity to at least partially recoup the losses they have suffered.
Because the problem, according to Fraas, is that the showmen “often fall through the cracks of the aid programs”: “They need adequate support.” It is particularly important to the economics officer that the Nuremberg Christmas market does not degenerate into a patchwork quilt: one booth is open, the other next to it is barricaded - that's not possible: "It should be as complete a market as possible, we want to have this special flair."
The city had hoped to the last that the traditional market could take place in 2021.
But after the Munich Christmas market had pulled the rip cord, Nuremberg also had to cancel.
