{"id":2433,"date":"2025-12-07T00:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weihnachtszeiten.de\/aktuell\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2025-12-07T00:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:33:07","slug":"die-deutsche-tradition-die-keiner-kennt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.weihnachtszeiten.de\/aktuell\/die-deutsche-tradition-die-keiner-kennt\/","title":{"rendered":"Die deutsche Tradition, die keiner kennt…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Weihnachtsgurke\"<\/a><\/p>\n

To start a tradition that surely will last.
\nHere’s a short story about the pickle of glass.<\/p>\n

The night before Christmas it’s hung on the tree.
\nWhile everyone’s sleeping it’s done secretly.<\/p>\n

And on Christmas morning when you arise.
\nThe first one to find it will get a surprise.<\/p>\n

Gibt es noch weitere \u201curtypische\u201d Weihnachtstraditionen, von denen ich nichts weiß und die im Laufe der Zeit in Vergessenheit geraten sind? Gibt es vielleicht auch Weihnachts-tomaten? Die möchte ich natürlich dann auch kennenlernen und hier bekannt machen – so wie diese traditionell deutsche Weihnachtsgurke.
\nVermutlich ist die Weihnachtsgurke nur ein marketingtechnischer Schachzug, um den Amis mit Hilfe einer netten Geschichte ein paar Dollar aus der Tasche zu ziehen. Möglicherweise ist Woolworth schuld:<\/p>\n

I loved knowing about this and participating in this tradition. Since I am still attending classes at the University of Google, I was able to research more about it’s origin. My research left me feeling a little cheated […].
\nThe fact that the legend was written in English should have been my first clue. There are a few more things wrong with the story. First, the Germans open their presents on Christmas Eve and not on Christmas morning. Secondly, St. Nicholas arrives on Dec.6th and the third and most important flaw in the legend is that the Germans have never heard of it.<\/p>\n

In 1800 F.W. Woolworth made a trip to Germany where he fell in love with the glass blown ornaments. He began importing them to the States to sell in his stores.
\nProduction of the glass pickle began in 1890 and it is believed to have been sent directly to the U.S. along with it’s „German tradition“.
\nYou should have seen the look on my neighbor’s face when I showed her my “ Traditional German Pickle“ hanging in my Christmas tree.<\/p>\n

Quelle: Torngren Blog – Die Weihnachtsgurke<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To start a tradition that surely will last. Here’s a short story about the pickle of glass. The night before Christmas it’s hung on the tree. While everyone’s sleeping it’s done secretly. And on Christmas morning when you arise. The first one to find it will get a surprise. Gibt es noch weitere \u201curtypische\u201d Weihnachtstraditionen, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,432],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dies-und-das","tag-tradition","tag-weihnachtsgurke"],"views":209,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weihnachtszeiten.de\/aktuell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weihnachtszeiten.de\/aktuell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weihnachtszeiten.de\/aktuell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weihnachtszeiten.de\/aktuell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weihnachtszeiten.de\/aktuell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.weihnachtszeiten.de\/aktuell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weihnachtszeiten.de\/aktuell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weihnachtszeiten.de\/aktuell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weihnachtszeiten.de\/aktuell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}