Easter in Germany

Why did we celebreat Easter ? Easter is for Christians zelibriert for about 2,000 years ago. On Ash Wednesday begins the 40 days of Lent and ends Easter. The Christian Church celebrates the Easter days, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Good Friday after he died on the cross and was resurrected on Easter Sunday from the dead. Good Friday is the highest holiday in Christianity. On Good Friday in Germany every Shop has closed, also nobody has to go to work and has free-time. Easter was adapted to the Jewish Pessahfest and had to be decisive 325 AD, but after the first ecumenical Council of Nicaea was the first Sunday after the first spring full moon as a fixed date.

Tradional customs in Germany: Decorate Brunches with Easter Eggs wich you can see on this pic

2) Backing Cakes wich have the form of a Lamm or an Easter Bunny

3) Painting Eggs with the Kids Why did we do this? By dispensing with the consumption of eggs in the last 40 days of Lent, to Easter, the cooked eggs are offered in a variety of devout Christians. The egg is the symbol of life, fertility and renewal. As could be eaten during Lent, no eggs, cooked to them and to distinguish them from the uncooked eggs may plant materials to dye placed in the cooking water, such as beets or onions. Beetroot red colored eggs, onions and their skins brown color the eggs. Since 12 Century, the traditional Easter Saturday the day of egg dyeing. On Easter Sunday, the colorfully painted Easter eggs you hid in the house and garden

4) On Easter Sunday the Kids will search for Eggs and Candy, wich the Easter Bunny hids in there houses or the gardens.

Why does the Easter Bunny brings the Easter eggs Why does the Easter Bunny brings the Easter eggs? In the Germanic goddess Holda and the Greek goddess Aphrodite was the hare as a sign of life and fertility. In Byzantium, now Istanbul the hare was considered the symbol of Jesus Christ. However, the Easter Bunny, who brings the children's Easter egg was totally up in the last century in many parts of Germany still unknown. In the 16th Century brought about many other animals, such as crane, fox or tap the Easter eggs