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The Festive Chest is always Lebkuchen Schmidt's largest Chest and it is always packed to the brim with Lebkuchen and pastries. The contents change a little bit from year to year and the beautiful illustration on the Chest is new every year...

The Striezel Children – the actual children not the figures – were from Dresden. That beautiful city has a most magnificent Christmas Market each year that is called the “Striezelmarkt”. And history has it that the poor children of Dresden...

I have had the good pleasure of visiting quite a number of German Christmas Markets - or Christkindl-Markts. Some of them in Germany and a couple of them right here in Canada. Given that I'm in the German Christmas business...

What says Christmas more than a Stollen loaf densely packed with raisins and rich with real butter. There are many types of Christmas loaves - or Winterbrot - and Stollen (or ChristStollen) has a special place amongst traditional German Christmas...

Canada's largest selection of Nativity Scenes from Germany...at least that's what we're working toward!Growing up my family owned a wood window factory and I loved the smell of freshly milled wood when I went to visit my Dad at his...