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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Advent calendars in different countries share the same basic concept – counting down the days to Christmas – but Kleinhans uses bags, which are popular in Germany, each containing a small gift ...

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 ...