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Latest comment: 7 months ago by RiedleroD in topic On Luther inventing Christkind or not

Christkindl

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Christkindl isn't a small village, it's part of Steyr. Falsely it's often called a village, but actually this is just a marketing concept. It's part of a historical city. --Scml (talk) 20:47, 28 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Merge Kristkind into this article

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The result of this discussion was apparently someone already merged it. Fine by me. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 17:19, 9 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

Kristkind is just a variant spelling of Christkind, the proper term. Why there are separate articles is beyond me. -- Svenman (talk) 19:57, 6 January 2009 (UTC)Reply


I am from south of Germany and never saw the spelling Kristkind before. The proper spelling would be Christkind that's why I also recommend to merge it. The figure described is for sure the same. --84.153.18.141 (talk) 08:39, 1 October 2009 (UTC)Reply


This article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8405501.stm seems relevant to this article. Sorry I'm not really sure how to edit, or what the guidelines are. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.202.15.21 (talk) 05:46, 14 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

@Svenman Everyone is too lazy to merge it. I'd say the merger would be a good thing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.134.157.168 (talk) 20:37, 27 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Date of arrival

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It'd be nice, thanks - it's what I came looking for and it's not presently on the page. Not knowing it, I can't add it. --62.58.152.52 (talk) 15:46, 14 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

Do NOT merge Ježíšek and Christkind articles

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The result of this discussion was to not merge. D O N D E groovily Talk to me 17:20, 9 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

There is a proposition to merge the Ježíšek and Christkind articles. I oppose this proposition. It is sufficient to have links between both articles. Although the traditions are similar, they are two distinctly different figures, with Christkind being an angel-like figure, and Ježíšek having no representation. People looking for Christkind should be directed to the Christkind article, people looking for Ježíšek should be directed to the Ježíšek article, so please leave it as it is now and remove the merger proposition from the article.KathaLu (talk) 06:28, 5 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

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differences of where gifts are put

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in many parts of south America, the gifts are given under the bed, or on its sides, while the kid is asleep, and I know as it was part of my youth — Preceding unsigned comment added by Verdad1963 (talkcontribs) 04:15, 7 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

Alternative to Saint Nicholas

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This article mentions that Christkind was promulgated by Protestants who also changed the date of gift giving to Christmas Eve, but it doesn't explain why. The reason is that Protestants opposed veneration of saints, so they adopted Christkind as an alternative to Saint Nicholas, and morphed the tradition of giving gifts on Saint Nicholas Day to giving gifts on Christmas Eve. Nosferattus (talk) 17:36, 9 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

On Luther inventing Christkind or not

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This page suggests this is an incorrect belief, so I'm curious whether the source listed on wikipedia, or the source listed there is actually correct… Certainly the notion that Luther invented the Christkind seems a bit too simple to be true to me… history is rarely this simple, is it? But I don't have access to either source, so I'm curious what others have to say.

Es trifft zwar nicht zu, dass – wie bisweilen behauptet – erst Martin Luther die Idee der Bescherung durch das Christkind "erfunden" hat, um den Nikolaus-Brauch zu ersetzen, der ja mit der von der Reformation abgelehnten Heiligenverehrung zusammenhängt: Schon zu Luthers Zeit kannte man St. Nikolaus und das Christkind als traditionelle Gabenbringer, die oft zusammen auftraten. In der Folge der Reformation wurde jedoch der Brauch des Beschenkens durch den Heiligen von protestantischer Seite abgelehnt und teilweise massiv bekämpft (s. Mezger 1993:140).

RiedleroD (talk) 11:40, 12 December 2025 (UTC)Reply