“People are starving”: stand operators at the Tölz Christmas market draw a positive interim balance
Created: 12/13/2022, 7:00 p.m
By: Elena Royer
Although it's cold, the atmosphere is still good, Lisa Lösel sums up.
You can buy all sorts of self-sewn things from her.
From headbands to pillow cases, pencil cases and phone cases, there is something for everyone.
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Satisfied faces: A good two weeks after the starting signal, the stall operators at the Tölz Christmas market draw a positive interim balance.
Bad Tölz – It smells like roasted almonds and mulled wine, Christmas music sounds through the market street, and the snow glitters on the roofs of the small sales huts.
After the pandemic break, the Christmas market is finally back in town.
A good two weeks after the starting signal, the stand operators draw up an interim balance – it could hardly be more positive.
Interim balance at the Tölz Christmas market: "People are starving"
"It's very well attended," says Katharina Schwingshackl.
She has had a stand at the Christmas market since 2016.
You can buy duck with red cabbage or in a crusty roll, pumpkin soup, South Tyrolean bacon and smoked sausages.
Schwingshackl doesn't notice that people are spending less money.
"People are starving after a two-year break."
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Cold but great atmosphere
Lisa Lösel is similarly satisfied.
"It's very cold, but the mood is great," she says.
She didn't notice the turnover from the more than 20,000 visitors on the first weekend (we reported), "but you never make a fortune as a craftsman," she explains.
Lösel sells window decorations, headbands, mobile phone cases and skirts - all sewn in-house.
There was a construction site in front of her shop on Badstrasse for weeks.
That's why she uses the market as an opportunity to show her presence again.
"I'm happy to be here," she says.
"I have the feeling that people missed the market too," she observes and praises the good organization by the city.
“You can tell that people missed the Christmas markets”
Michael Büttner can only agree with that.
"We are very satisfied with the cooperation with the city".
Together with his mother Franziska Büttner he sells mulled wine and all kinds of delicacies.
Business couldn't be better either: "It's very good, far better than before Corona," reports Michael Büttner.
“You can tell that people have missed the Christmas markets and that there is a need to catch up.” What works best?
"Actually everything, especially grater datchi and apple fritters."
Visitors no more frugal than before
Heidi Kaiser from the “Tölzer Zuckerl” stand also has a real hit in her range.
"The roasted almonds," she says.
But chocolate fruits are also selling like hot cakes.
"At first we thought that people would definitely be more economical this year, but it's relatively normal.
Everyone is excited and having fun,” she observes.
Kaiser has also been missing something in the past two years.
"It was depressing that nothing could happen.
You're just used to it."
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Christiane Bürkle is at the Tölz Christmas market for the first time this year.
"I usually have a stand in Munich at the Chinese Tower," she says.
Because this Christmas market is not taking place this year, she dares an "experiment" in Tölz.
"I tend to stay here," says Bürkle, who offers Indian jewelery and decorations in addition to singing bowls.
"It's just more comfortable and less stressful." Although she can't offer her range to the usual extent - in Munich her stand was six meters long, here it's 2.50 meters - she can't complain about too little sales.
"It is going very well."
Prices not increased at the mulled wine stand - "Ensures good business"
At the stand of the Tölz town twinning association, where there is mulled wine and hot chestnuts, you only hear positive words: "The people are all in a good mood and we are also satisfied," report Gisela Oefele and Eric Bardet.
"We haven't increased our prices, which means that business is good." Business is even better at the weekend, but there's still a small group at the bar tables early on Monday afternoon, with steaming cups in front of them.
"We come from the Dachau region," explains Josef Renkl, who likes to visit various Christmas markets with friends during Advent.
"We are glad that markets are taking place again," he says.
"We've already missed something."
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