Cold or emotion?
Yvonne Coulin has misty eyes when she evokes, by minus six degrees in the cobbled streets of her city, the reopening of the Christmas market, baptized here of the Child Jesus.
A native Bavarian with a French name inherited from her ex-husband, the Nuremberg tourism director describes the
“heart of her city beating again”
in winter.
Only interrupted in the past by the wars, the traditional Christkindlesmarkt, whose origin dates back to 1528, has seen its last two editions canceled due to Covid.
“The last cancellation, announced by the Land a week before the meeting, hurt a lot.
The tears flowed,”
comments Yvonne Coulin.
The oldest Christmas market in Germany after that of Dresden resumed its rights and the ritual formula was pronounced again, on the Friday of the first Advent, from the balcony of the Church of Our Lady:
"Gentlemen and ladies, you who were once children, be children again!”
Below his clock…
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