But if you are looking for a larger-than-life Advent calendar, you better head to Germany, where the Advent calendar, after all, originated. Each December, the hamlet of Gengenbach turns its town ...

Why is the third candle on the wreath pink? And where did the wreath originally come from? Learn more about the Advent wreath tradition in Germany in our Advent Calendar. Welcome to the first of our ...

Throughout the four weeks of the holiday, scripture readings encompass Christ’s return in judgment to Old Testament ... altar. The Advent wreath first appeared in Germany in 1839 when a ...

Considered a season of light in the dark apex of winter, Advent is symbolized in the church by a candlelit evergreen wreath. In 1838 Johann Wichern, a German Lutheran pastor, began using this ...

The earliest Advent calendars came from Germany in the 19th century and gained popularity in the U.S. in the 1950s. Chocolate Advent calendars, still popular, went mainstream first in the United ...

But out of the many covetable food-based Advent calendars, those from a 53-year-old jam company are the hottest ... Starting in the early 19th century, German Lutherans logged the days leading ...

Gengenbach, a small town in the heart of the Black Forest in southwestern Germany, knows how to do Advent. Whether it’s gin, beauty products or just good old-fashioned chocolate, the tradition ...