Talk:Weihnachten

message: The article is very short, and the universal Christmas not all that different from the typically German one anyway, nicht wahr? Since there is no real difference between the two, it's the same date and tradition after all, this should be redirected and a section added to Christmas instead, Danke, (7 days)--FlammingoHey 12:44, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: I strongly disagree with merging, although this is a sub-article that could be better structured and better referenced from the main article.
The Christmas festival was introduced by early Christian missionaries in different countries, adapting traditional end-of-season festivals to the underlying belief the missionaries were propagating. It has little or no doctrinal importance, but is an important ritual in confirming belief.  
The local rituals in different countries have interest that predates the introduction of Christianity, and deserve their own articles.  I would much prefer to see the article expanded to give more information on pre-Christian origins of the rituals.  Aymatth2 (talk) 01:19, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Dont't Merge - Expand

message: "Adults also share gifts while the children are opening theirs, often immediately playing with their new toys."
The 'often immediately' seems a really unhelpful, and obvious, generalisation.
Also the whole article looks to be based on a somewhat specific idea of a German Christmas, just applying that to "many families". When I lived in Northern Germany not many people would bring Christkind into anything, favouring just the Weihnachtsmann. I don't know which idea is more prevalent, but perhaps some expansion and explanation of alternative Christmas traditions in Germany would be useful.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.128.204.253 (talk) 23:24, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Too general, and oddly described.

message: "in the past generated by real candles, though today generally replaced by electric lights"
this is not correct, in many German families real candles are still used! (Source: I'm German...)--93.220.86.228 (talk) 12:50, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Candles 

message: The first sentence of the article is incorrect: "Weihnachten" does not equal "Christmas Eve."  Weihnachten is the German word for Christmas, which takes place on the 25th of December; the eve of the celebration, when festivities begin, is Christmas Eve, the evening of the 24th.Ajrocke (talk) 20:36, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: That's exactly right. Maybe in English speaking countries the meanings are different. But in German language Weihnachten = Christmas and Heilig Abend = Christmas Eve. I write this as a native German reader. Please correct that wrong definition in first sentence. 87.179.21.62 (talk) 18:40, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Weihnachten = Christmas Eve?

message: Looks like in the first picture of St Nicholas, there are two guys in the background wearing Santa hats that appear to be crudely photoshopped on them. Can someone replace the picture?
Halberdo (talk) 19:28, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I saw that too. I tried to replace it with another commons image but couldn't find one with Santa Claus. Any ideas? I think a Christmas tree would be more appropriate anyhow. Walter Görlitz (talk) 21:11, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photoshopped picture?