Advent in the old town of Schongau: Kindergarten children decorate Christmas trees

Created: 11/28/2022, 12:00 p.m

By: Elke Robert

The children of the Mariae Himmelfahrt kindergarten decorating one of the 20 small Christmas trees.

Advent calendar on Instagram © Hans-Helmut Herold

Advent has begun.

Kindergarten children now decorated 20 Christmas trees in the old town of Schongau - which also play a role in the letter rally of the advertising association.

Schongau – The letter rally of the Schongau advertising community has apparently proven itself in recent years.

This year it will be expanded somewhat, as Maria Mader, spokeswoman for the advertising association Altstadt Schongau, reports.

Not only in the shop windows of the participating shops are hidden letters that later become a Christmas saying.

Whoever finds all the letters can of course also win something.

But this year it's going to be a bit more difficult: The advertising community is putting up 20 small Christmas trees, distributed in the pedestrian zone at Marienplatz and the adjacent streets.

In advance, 500 wooden discs had been distributed to the Schongau kindergartens with the request that they be painted, glued or decorated for Christmas.

Last week these trees were decorated by the kindergarten children.

Letters will then also be found in the branches of each individual tree - "So you really have to find every tree in the old town in order to collect all the letters," says Mader.

Johanna Hentschke (world shop) took charge of the tree decoration campaign.

(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Schongau newsletter.)

The fairy tale reading trip was always popular, especially with the younger children.

Lina Geiger organized this this year, the choice fell on the story of "Hansel and Gretel".

Distributed across the city, the individual parts of the fairy tale can be read in the shop windows.

Kornelia Funke, head of the Schongau library at the Münztor and the parish library in Schongau-West, is also involved.

Advent calendar of the advertising community on Instagram

The libraries could get a bigger influx this year, especially from small readers.

As a thank you, the kindergarten children who hang their self-designed Christmas decorations in the trees receive a membership card for free visits to the libraries for six months.

"We thought long and hard about what little thank you we could give the children," says Mader.

While a little Christmas candy is eaten right away, the voucher for the library is something you can use for a long time.

At the same time, it should be an incentive to read.

"And sometimes children come to the library with their parents who have never been there before," says Mader.

Last but not least, there is also an advent calendar from the advertising community, on Instagram.

Anyone who follows the advertising community under “altstadtschongau” can open a door every day in December and, with a bit of luck, win a prize.

You can find more current news from the region around Schongau at Merkur.de/Schongau.