german traditions?

Answer 1

I enjoy watching the Bride and Groom use a push and pull saw to cut a log in half. This was to show that for a relationship to work you both had to give and take in a relationship.

Answer 2

Two weeks ago, a co-worker celebrated his 30th birthday. Now in many cities in Northern Germany we have the following tradition: When a man reaches his 30th birthday and is still unmarried, he has to dress up with several items like fancy hat or suit, take a broom, and wipe the stairs of the city hall until a virgin appears and sets him free with a kiss. Of course these events are opportunities for many cheers and laughs, sometimes even announced in the newspaper, with many folk standing around, drinking, and throwing some more trash on the stairs so he has more work to do ... It was big fun and afterwards we went to a big pub and had a nice celebration.
By the way, for women, the rules are a bit different: a woman does not need to sweep the stairs, she has to polish doorknobs instead. Sometimes special doors are prepared for this with extra doorknobs and slimy substances on them :)

Don't know if this sort of fun is known elsewhere.
Cheers!

Answer 3

Before the wedding they have a Polterabend, where the guest throw glasses and china at their front door and the bride and the groom have to sweep it up, its supposed to scare all the bad spirits away. After the wedding the bride and groom have to saw a log in half to get used to working together and also get bread and salt to eat to signify always have money and something to eat.
Christmas eve is gift giving time not Christmas morning. In the village they still have a Maybaum (May tree) where the girls and boys dance around, The Lederhosen and the Beer and um papa is mainly in the southern part.
The 4 Sundays before Christmas is Advent, the have an Advent Wreath with 4 Candles and each Sunday before they light a Candle, first one, then two etc.
On the first day of school the children get from their parent a
Zuckertute, which is pointed like a dunce head and it has beautiful decorations on them and is filled with candy and chocolates.
On December 6. is St. Nikolaus day, where the kids leave their clean shoes in the window sill and in the morning St. Nicholaus left chocolates and candy in them, if they were bad, one shoe might have coal and a switch.
Easter they colour eggs and have them for breakfast, for the small children they hide the eggs and chocolate eggs etc, either in the house or outside depending on the weather.
St. Lucia Day is in Sweden not Germany.

Answer 4

I wouldn't be too proud of NaturalBornKieler's, although his name is pretty cool (if you don't speak German, a Kieler is like a New Yorker or San Franciscan - someone from the lovely city of Kiel).

My cousin had to go through that. Shortly thereafter - presumably because of the shame - he proposed to a girl he barely knew, had a couple of kids with her, and was divorced again inside of 5 years. Some traditions are just dumb.

Answer 5

I heard a nice one whilst studying German. In the run up to Xmas (can't remember the day, soz...) kids leave their shoes on the window sill before going to bed. If they have been good,their shoes would be filled with sweets and goodies when they wake up. If, however, they have been bad, they would be beaten with a big stick.

Answer 6

Christmas time: Lucia's Day, lighten candles, eating lots of chocolates and sweets. Street Christmas markets.
October: Oktoberfest (drinking beer)
Eastern: painting eastern eggs and eating eastern chocolate eggs. The Eastern bunny.

Answer 7

Beerfests
Lederhosen
Invading Poland

Answer 8

being bum holes