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By Birge Amondson, About.com Guide to Germany Travel

Santa Claus is Coming to Town - on December 6th, in Germany

Saturday December 6, 2008

If you are spending December 6th in Germany, make sure to leave your shoes outside the door - Santa Claus, called Nikolaus or Weihnachtsmann ("Christmas man") in German, will come this evening to fill your shoes with sweets, oranges, walnuts, cookies, and small santa claus figurines made out of chocolate.

Happy Nikolaustag!

(Photo by Shawn Zehnder Lea)

Comments
December 6, 2008 at 11:03 pm
(1) I wanna be Santa Claus says:

You must clean the shoes first.
The candies won’t taste very good if your shoes are dirty ;)

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