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Winter 2014 | The Christmas magazine for the Free State of Saxony Saxony Where Christmas comes to life Jens Weissflog Ring tuRneR stollen 2.0 A sausage on a bus instead of presents: Back to the future: Science and the web: A blogger from The legendary ski jumper talks about How a maverick brought the Ore Mountains takes Christmas Advent season in professional sport. an old craft back to life. baking to a whole new level. 2 Baking stuDio DresDen In Pulsnitz children are nostalgia tracking down the secret Chock-full of treats and of German “pepper mementos from yes- cake”. Page 10 DresDen teryear: “Advent on the kreuzchor Neumarkt” next to the paraDe moDe 11-year-old Karl sings for o come all ye Frauenkirche. Page 4 Glück auf! A day in Ad- his supper. Page 20 FaithFul! vent with the Schneeberg Saxony’s best Christmas Flyyyyyyyyy! miners. Page 12 Festive Fortress markets. Page 24 stollen 2.0 Ski jump legend Jens Why the Christmas mar- A baking blogger from Weißflog talks about schwarzenBerg ket on the Königstein young culture the Ore Mountains Christmas time among After a steep climb, a glo- is a real highlight of the scene reveals how to make the top athletes. Page 6 rious market. Page 15 season. Page 21 Runa Pernoda Schaefer, moistest of moist stollen actress, guides us through cakes. Page 28 the raugrave’s Advent alphaBet silBermann’s Leipzig’s Advent. Page 25 recipe An A to Z of Christmas pipes all wrappeD up An old mulled wine reci- in Saxony. Page 16 Choirmaster and organ- Blaze oF light Highly recommended: pe written by a bankrupt ist Albrecht Koch reveals The Christmas market in celebrities and VIPs from aristocrat was collecting turn arounD! how to coax modern Altkötzschenbroda: pic- Saxony give advice on dust in a far corner of a A ring turner as unusual sounds out of a 300- turesque setting, enchant- Christmas presents. Dresden archive. Page 9 as his olden craft. Page 18 year-old organ. Page 22 ing lighting. Page 26 Page 30 SAxony A warm welcome, dear readers! Might it be his tracks there at the bottom of the photo? Father Christmas could very well live in a little hut on the Fichtelberg and trudge through the snow eve- ry now and then. Because if there is a Christmasland, it just has to be Saxony – and the Ore Mountains in particular. But as heavenly figures tend not to disclose their secrets when journalists and photographers come knocking, we set out on a journey of the Free State for you. We visited the people who are breathing life into age-old traditions that make the time leading up to Christmas so very special. The people who create unparal- leled folk art with their craft skills. Who bake those delicious treats from grand- ma’s days either in the traditional, time-honoured way or with a modern twist. Who play or sing those well-known tunes that move and affect us in Advent. Furthermore, celebrities and VIPs have told us what they love about Christmas in Saxony, and what they like to give as presents. So, let us take you on a pre-Christmas trip through Saxony. Or why not go there yourself – for example with the aid of our competition on the last page. Merry Christmas! The editorial team 3 Due to its unique and varied Christmas traditions, Saxony has its own special vocabulary. In order to help you understand Christmas Saxony better, we marked these words like → this and explain them in a special glossary on the centre pages. Cover: Sebastian Arlt; Photo: mauritius images / Alamy / images mauritius Photo: Arlt; Sebastian Cover: Just browse, read and make a mental note! Where Christmas comes to life Silent night in the glow of the dome The last of the sunlight illumi- nating the dome of the Dres- den Frauenkirche is the cue for 4 the → Kurrendesänger (choir boys) to start sing- ing “Silent Night”. And a few minutes later, when spotlights delay the onset of winter night a little longer, they sing “Alle Jahre wieder”. These two carols per- fectly sum up the atmosphere at “Advent on the Neumarkt”. The mood at this Christmas market behind Dresden’s famous land- mark is peaceful – because its guests are basking in what the past has to offer. The booths and food stalls are replicas from 1830 to 1920. In those days the world turned a little slower, even with all the stress in the run-up to Christmas. And once you have a taste for Christmas markets, you can carry on walking. Dresden’s old city centre is transformed into a Christmas Mile in Ad- vent, ready to be discovered at ten differently themed Christ- mas markets. The largest of them with the longest tradition is the central Striezelmarkt, now in its 580th year. Photos: Sebastian Arlt; Jörg Schöner Jörg Arlt; Sebastian Photos: www.dresden.de/weihnachten SAxoNy Where Christmas comes to life 6 Photos: Sebastian Arlt Sebastian Photos: Saxony En route with two Ore Mountain legends: Since 1897, the historic Fich- telberg railway has been meandering the 17 kilometre stretch BF CRANZAHL from Cranzahl to Ober- wiesenthal, where Jens Weißflog lives. The tri- ple Olympic champion ski jumper gets on board at HP UNTERNEUDORF least once a year with his family – privately, at Ad- vent time. BF NEUDORF Mr Weißflog, we would like to talk to you about Christ- mas – but , well, we don’t actually know if you are the right person to talk to. BF KRETSCHAM How come? ROTHENSEHMA BF VIERENSTRASSE BF NIEDER While everyone else was sitting around eating Christ- SCHLAG mas biscuits, warm and snug, you must have been out on ski jumping training. I can set your mind at ease on that count – I never had to follow a strict keep-fit regime ina dvent. The main training time for a winter sportsman is in the summer. That’s when you have to get in shape, and in December it’s all about fine-tuning. But the Four Hills Tournament, one of the highlights of BF HAMMERUNTER WIESENTHAL the season, starts right after the Christmas period. That sounds as if you didn’t have a seren and peaceful time. 7 I usually trained just a little on Christmas Eve in the TSCHECHISCHE REPUBLIK morning and then celebrated Christmas in peace and HP UNTERWIESENTHAL quiet with my family. It was not until Boxing Day that we would then set out to oberstdorf – it was all quite relaxed. But there was one Christmas when, at least for BF KURORT OBERWIESENTHAL a brief moment, I hated the sport. That must have been back in 1987. So what happened? We had to go to a competition in St. Moritz, and be- cause the journey to Switzerland was so far we set out at about lunch-time on Christmas Eve. First we were stuck on the motorway, and then we had to wait for “I look forward ages at the border for our passports – and Christmas dinner that evening was two bread rolls, a sausage and a hard-boiled egg on the bus. It was quite depressing... to the light” ...but for a feather-light ski jumper perhaps more suit- able than a fatty Christmas goose. The celebrated SkI juMpEr oh, I could eat all day. I am the sort of person who HaS HaD a CHristmaS dinnEr never puts on weight – ideal for jumping. at Christmas ConsistinG oF a meaGrE SauSage I don’t have to worry if I eat one or two biscuits. And what else would the ski jumper Jens Weißflog enjoy on the teaM BuS – BuT noW second helpings of? JenS WeiSSFloG (50) EnjoyS lIvInG a stollen – a German Christmas cake – crammed full ouT the orE MounTaInS´ AdvEnT of raisins, for example. I love stollen when it is nice, heavy and not too dry. Every year, I get one from my TraditionS with his chilDrEn mother, she has been baking it before Christmas for ages. and she puts a bit of chocolate in it too. In 1977, you went to a sports boarding school. Were you homesick for your mother’s stollen? Where Christmas comes to life Since boarding school, you have been living in Oberwi- esenthal – the “St. Moritz of the Ore Mountains”. The town got this nickname because of the excellent reliable snow coverage. But also because this is where once the nobility met up – Dresden’s court society used to go horn sledging here way back when. When this was part of the GDr, before the Berlin Wall came down, it was one of the few alpine skiing resorts you could travel to, and it remained a place where vIps and artists would gather – but the press didn’t make such a big deal of this back then. The town has many other attractions aside from sport – the triple Olympic champion Jens Weißflog. a lot of people stop me on the street, but after such a long career I know how to deal with this. It usually isn’t a problem – but sometimes if I can’t be bothered to sign autographs for a bus-load of tourists I quickly dive into a side alleyway. It’s what I used to do when cam- eramen were following me – pulling down my cap to cover my face and I was off. Should it come to a chase, I am probably still fitter than most other people. Why did you stay here after leaving professional sport? For a start, my roots are in the ore Mountains.
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