Christmas Eve: Crib Walk Pic Spam
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selenakMerry Christmas, everyone. The Aged Parents & self followed our family tradition for Christmas Eve and visited the churches in our hometown Bamberg with the most beautiful cribs (build by hand and sometimes in incredible detail just for the December weeks and the first January one). The resulting pic spam, like last year, is my way of wishing happy holidays to friends virtual, some of whom I know in person by now, and all of whom have contributed through the last year to make my life both interesting and fun. Before I get sentimental enough to disgust Scrooge pre-reformation, have some pictures:
This is St. Michael's, one of our most beautiful baroque churches and the first one we visit on Christmas Eve:
And its crib. The church painted behind is actually St. Michael's.
Then there is the Maternskirche, which hosts a variety of small cribs each year, and there's always something new and original. Like this rendition of the nativity in corn:
The Karmelitenkirche has one of the more elaborate depictions of Bethlehem. There is some incredible detail here, and you have to imagine the entire thing is too large to take a picture of. So, have it in pieces:
Then there is the Obere Pfarre, with a crib/nativity scene/Bethlehem depiction that uses figures partly as old as a hundred years and some completely new, but they all make for a unified whole. By the way, if you think this looks more like Franconia than Palestine, you'd be right.
Those were all Catholic churches. The Lutherans follow the crib tradition as well; here's the one from St. Stephan:
They even include a scene from much later (twelve years old Jesus in the temple):
But the main event looks llike this:
And this is me today, in what was once an Imperial residence, with the cathedral of Bamberg in the background, wishing you all merry christmas:
This is St. Michael's, one of our most beautiful baroque churches and the first one we visit on Christmas Eve:
And its crib. The church painted behind is actually St. Michael's.
Then there is the Maternskirche, which hosts a variety of small cribs each year, and there's always something new and original. Like this rendition of the nativity in corn:
The Karmelitenkirche has one of the more elaborate depictions of Bethlehem. There is some incredible detail here, and you have to imagine the entire thing is too large to take a picture of. So, have it in pieces:
Then there is the Obere Pfarre, with a crib/nativity scene/Bethlehem depiction that uses figures partly as old as a hundred years and some completely new, but they all make for a unified whole. By the way, if you think this looks more like Franconia than Palestine, you'd be right.
Those were all Catholic churches. The Lutherans follow the crib tradition as well; here's the one from St. Stephan:
They even include a scene from much later (twelve years old Jesus in the temple):
But the main event looks llike this:
And this is me today, in what was once an Imperial residence, with the cathedral of Bamberg in the background, wishing you all merry christmas:
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