Official Christkindl from Nuremberg in Philadelphia
07/23/10
Christmas Village in Philadelphia is proud to annouce a new cooperation with the City of Nuremberg, the home of the most traditional Christkindlmarket in Germany.
Within this new cooperation, the official Nuremberg Christkindl, Rebekka Volland will come to Philadelphia for a new opening ceremony of Christmas Village.
The traditional prologue, spoken by the Nuremberg Christkindl will be part of this opening ceremony on Saturday, November 27, 2010. This new highlight will be framed by musical performances at Chistmas Village's central stage.
So save the date!
Sponsoring Opportunity: Christmas Village
04/22/10
Christmas Village in Philadelphia is looking for sponsors who are interested in prominent presentation in Center City Philadelphia at the most relevant shopping time of the year! For the 2010 Holiday season but also for an ongoing partnership, Christmas Village offers highly attractive sponsorship packages for very reasonable prices.
With an attendance of more than 200,000 visitors, more than a million ad impressions (sponsors are included in all print/online ads and brochures) and a great press coverage, Christmas Village is one of Philadelphia's major events and the biggest event in the City between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve.
Please get in touch with Thomas Bauer at 215-268-7606 or info@philachristmas.com for more information.
Merry Christmas
12/24/09Christmas Village 2009 ended today and we wanted to say
THANK YOU FOR MAKING CHRISTMAS VILLAGE ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR HOLIDAY ATTRACTIONS IN PHILADELPHIA!
A special thanks to
- all our visitors, we are glad that so many people enjoyed Christmas Village,
- all our vendors which made Christmas Village a unique shopping location with their great merchandise and decoration,
- our media partners Philadelphia Weekly / South Philly Review and WFIL AM 560 - Philadelphia's Christian Radio and WNTP 990 AM News Talk,
- and our partners, The City of Philadelphia, The German Society of Pennsylvania, The Steuben Day Observance Association and PPA
- and of course all our employees which did a great job!
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We hope to see you back in 2010 when Christmas Village will open for its third annual Holiday event.
Your Christmas Village Team
Winter Wonderland
12/22/09After the heavy snow and Philadelphia's snow emergency caused Christmas Village to close for a day on Saturday, Christmas Village is open again since Sunday.
With the snow still there and all paths cleared, Christmas Village now presents itself as a Winter Wonderland. So if you want to experience this special White Christmas Village for your last Holiday shopping, you are invited to do so from 11am-8pm daily and until 5pm at Christmas Eve.
Winter Wonderland Impressions: click here!
New Photo Galleries Available
12/13/09New Photo Galleries from regular Christmas Village Days and performances of our German American Weekend are online now.
Impressions 2009: click here!
German American Weekend 2009: click here!
Radio Spots at WFIL AM560 and WNTP 990AM
12/12/09Our radio spot is currently on air at WFIL AM 560 - Philadelphia's Christian Radio and WNTP 990 AM News Talk .
Listen in: Christmas Village Radio Spot
Photo Galleries Available
12/05/09
New photo galleries for our Grand Opening and Christmas Tree Lighting 2009 are available now!
Grand Opening 2009: click here!
Christmas Tree Ligthing 2009: click here!
Santa's House
12/04/09
Santa's House at Christmas Village in Philadelphia has probably the most authentic Santa in the Philadelhia Region.
Kids are welcome to meet our Santa every Saturday until Christmas 11 to 5pm and every Sunday from 11pm to 4pm.
Santa however does not only welcome kids, but you can also bring pets for photos with Santa:
Christmas Tree Lighting on Wednesday 12/02/09
11/30/09
Christmas Village and the City of Philadelphia invites everyone to the annual Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony with Mayor Michael A. Nutter. At 5pm the tree at Dilworth Plaza will be lit.
The City's program with the actual ceremony and school choirs will be surrounded by performances at the Christmas Village stage. Cara Mia Big Band - The Jump City Jazz Orchestra will perform at 4pm and Peter Nero's Pops Festival Brass will add another special highlight at 6.15pm.
Center City workforce welcome for Business Lunch
11/30/09This year, Christmas Village especially invites everyone who works in Center City to taste German specialties at the Grilling booth. Changing weekly specials together with a side of potato salad and a soft drink invite to experience German delicatessen. Fleischkuchle (German burgers) are the special offer for this week. Our business lunch meal comes for only $ 6 (incl. sales tax) and is available from 11am to 2pm.
Of course our variety of German sausages (Bratwurst, Knockwurst, Octoberfestwurst) will also be available at the grilling booth.
Christmas Village thanks everyone for a great weekend
11/29/09Wonderful sunny weather attracted a nice crowd on Saturday and Sunday. About 20,000 visitors enjoyed Christmas Village and shopping in unique and tasteful decorated vendor booths.
The likely most authentic Santa in the City welcomed a lot of kids in his house and parents had the chance to take pictures home of their children giving Santa their wish list.
Even with the mild temperatures hot beverages and gluhwine (mulled wine) were a great hit so that Christmas Village was temporarily sold out of its popular Christmas Village mug. From Monday on, our mugs will however be available again at both Hot Beverages and Chaddsford Winery booths.
People visited Christmas Village even late, as the experience with thousands of lights is especially impressive at nighttime.
Grand Opening of Christmas Village
11/28/09
After a Sneak Peak right after the Thanksgiving Day parade on Thursday, Christmas Village in Philadelphia had its Grand Opening on Friday.
Various performances of piano player Justin Barron, Boy Wonder, a string ensemble from Cara Mia, Serena SolBrown and other artists invited people to take a break from Black Friday shopping bustle.
A lot of people gave very positive comments about the improved decoration of Christmas Village with REAL Christmas trees and about 1,200 lights per booth. A wider variety in arts and crafts offers and the new food court area with authentic gluhwine (mulled wine) from Chaddsford Winery was also very well received.
CBS3, NBC10, FOX29 and KYW Newsradio covered Christmas Village in their local program and passed the joyful impressions on to the whole region.
Happy Thanksgiving
11/26/09
Happy Thanksgiving to everybody.
After a great Sneak Peak today, we are opening tomorrow from 11am to 8pm. You can start to look for your holiday presents at Christmas Village!
I hope everybody who visited us, enjoyed the wonderful day at our market!
Dilworth Plaza gets busy
11/14/09
Today the setup of Christmas Village 2009 started.
The two big Christmas Village light arches arrived at the Westside of City Hall anouncing the arrival of Christmas Village to the Philadelphians.
On Monday the construction of the wooden booths starts and from than we are looking forward to a beautiful Christmas season. We can't wait for our Grand Opening on Black Friday (11/27).
We started to distribute our brochures
11/10/09
We started to distribute our Brochures around the city. So watch out for them. You can find them in several shops in Rittenhouse and Old City for now. They will be in more and more places every day! If you have a place, where you think they need do be, please let us know! marketing@philachristmas.comRange Recording Studio and Philly Rising support the stage of Christmas Village
11/07/09
Philadelphia's premiere studio Range Recording Studios and World Cafe Live's "Philly Rising" Open Mic series support us by bringing some of the best up-and-coming local talent to the stage of Christmas Village 2009 in Philadelphia.
Kathe Wolfahrt comes back bigger
10/27/09
Our biggest vendor Kathe Wolfahrt will be even bigger this year.
They come back in a 60'x40' tent and will bring christmas from Germany to your home. As a premiere source of finely crafted German Christmas treasures, they will sell Incense Smokers, Nutcrackers, Pyramids, Schwibbogen, Music Boxes, Wooden Ornaments and Glass Ornaments.
Vendorlist for 2009 is online
10/23/09
The updated List with all Vendors and their places on Christmas Village in 2009 is here available.
We looking forward to see so many from last year and welcome all of the new vendor, who join us this year for the first time.
Sincerly,
Your Christmas Village Team
Philadelphia Christmas Village and Philadelphia Weekly signed a Media Partnership
10/20/09
Philadelphia Weekly and South Philly Review are the new Print Media Partner of Christmas Village in Philadelphia in 2009.
But they will not only be a Print Media Partner. The two Newspaper will support Christmas Village to enrich the market with special events on the stage as well as off the stage in their own booth.
Local Winery sells Gluhwein (mulled wine)
10/19/2009
The local Chaddsford Winery will sell traditional Gluhwein (mulled wine) at the Christmas Village this year.
As our partner the Chaddsfors Winery will sell the traditional hot beverage in original Christmas Village mugs. So you will not only warm yourself up while resting from Work or Christmas Shopping, you also have a wonderful memory to take home from Christmas Village in Philadelphia.
New Media Partner
10/12/2009Christmas Village has two new Media Partner.
The Radiostations WFIL AM 560 Philadelphia's Christian Radio and WNTP 990 AM News Talk are the new official Radiopartner of Christmas Village in Philadelphia in 2009.
Website under construction
10/07/2009We want to apologize, that some parts of the Website are under construction at the moment.
They will soon be available again.
Christmas Village is now on Facebook
10/01/2009Christmas Village now has a Profile on Facebook to stay in contact with all Fans of the Christmas Market.
Please Visit the Profile and become our Friend to get the latest news about vendors, program and special offers.
http://www.facebook.com/philachristmas
Christmas Village is coming back to town
09/24/2009
First of all we want to say thank you for visiting our Christmas Village and making the event so wonderful last year. All vendors and artists also enjoyed the event and we are proud to announce, that the event will take place this year again.
After a successful first year with 150,000 visitors Christmas Village is coming back to Philadelphia. As last year we will be located at Dilworth Plaza on the west side of Philadelphia City Hall. From November 26th through December 24th about 40 vendors will turn the plaza in a medieval village and sell Christmas ornaments and various types of arts and crafts along with delicious European food specialties such as bratwursts, pretzels, waffles, frosted nuts, chocolate covered fruits and lebkuchen.
Merry Christmas
12/24/2008Christmas Village 2008 is closing today and we want to say thank you very much to all of you!
A special thanks to
- our visitors, hopefully you enjoyed the first Christmas Village in Philadelphia,
- our vendors which helped to create a festive wonderland in Center City,
- our Sponsor Lufthansa,
- our Media Partner The Philadelphia Inquirer,
- and our partners, The City of Philadelphia, The German Society of Pennsylvania, The Steuben Day Observance Association and PPA
- and of course our employees which did a great job!
Have a Merry Christmas and a happy new year! We hope to see you in 2009 when Christmas Village will open again on Thanksgiving Day.
Your Christmas Village Team
7,000 Lebkuchen (German gingerbread cookies) handed out
12/20/2008Sponsored by Lufthansa, we handed out 7,000 free Lebkuchen (original German gingerbread cookies) from Nuremberg, Germany to our visitors.
A special thanks from all visitors who enjoyed the cookies goes to Lufthansa. So many people tried Lebkuchen and were really excited. There is still a selection of Lebkuchen available at our Lebkuchen booth at the west portal of City Hall.
But hurry, they are selling very fast and the market is almost over!
Even Santa helped to hand out the Lebkuchen, in this case to the great performers of the Pottsgrove Highschool Choi
Get your FREE Christmas Village Mug
12/19/08Get your FREE Christmas Village Mug with any purchase of $20 or more at one of the participating vendors:
- Käthe Wohlfahrt
- Santa's House
- Toy Train Emporium
- Mayan Dreams
- Friction Jewelry
- Pallay Craft
- Gifts from Afar
- Kylie's Canine Treats
- J & J Specialty Items
- Lindwurm
- Perfect Scents
- Glass by Novelteeze
Downtown Christmas Village at City Hall Resists the Chill
Press Release 03/2008 - 12/16/2008
PHILADELPHIA, PA - 12/16/08 - The starlings have settled in at City Hall for the night, ruffling feathers against the crisp December chill, atop the naked trees of Dilworth Plaza. From down inside SEPTA's Concourse, a karaoke enchantress belts out an unforgotten Motown hit on the Village stage; the notes rise from the subterranean amphitheater into the still deepening night. read more
Christmas Village keeps on growing...
12/14/08Three more vendors and their products enrich from now on our Village.
NEW in the Village are:
- Philadelphia Book Co. - Assortment of Books (Booth #12)
- Exclusivly Yours - Men Accessories (Booth #31)
- Planet Clare - Turkish folk art (Booth #33)
If your are interested in becoming a vendor in 2009 please click here.
Light Arches for the Christmas Village
12/08/08
Two gigantic arches with the lettering Christmas Village surrounded by blinking snowflakes located at the entrances to Dilworth Plaza welcome from now on our visitors.
Christmas Village is growing..
12/05/08
From this Friday on Christmas Village welcomes 4 new vendors which enrich with their products the the wide variety of what Christmas Village has to offer.
NEW in the Village are:
- Glass by Novelteeze - Glass Jewelry
- At-the-Beach Gallery - Designer Shirts & headbans
- Power Windows & Siding - Windows, Siding, Roofing & Doors
- J & J Specialty Items - Sports Merchandise
If you are interested in becoming a vendor in 2009 please click here.
Christmas Village attracts more shoppers to Center City Philadelphia
Press Release 02/2008 - 12/04/2008
Philadelphia - Two big light arches that can be seen from Pennsylvania Suburban Station and all the way down Market Street tell visitors about the new holiday attraction at City Hall Philadelphia: Christmas Village. Charming wooden booths at both levels of the apron on the west side of City Hall invite Holiday shoppers to look for gifts from more than thirty vendors with unique high end merchandise. Traditional gifts like model trains, jewelry, designer clothing can be found at Christmas Village, as well as international Christmas ornaments from Germany, Russia, Mexico and Israel. Food stands offer German bratwursts, Belgian waffles, French crepes and Bavarian pretzels. Big magnets are two tents from Kathe Wohlfahrt and Lauschaer Glaskugelhaus that sell popular wooden and glass ornaments from Germany. read more
Sneak Peak and Grand Opening
Christmas Village in Philadelphia opened its gates on Thanksgiving Day; on Black Friday took the official Grand Opening Ceremony place.
We cordially invite you all to come and see what this year's Christmas Village has to offer you.
Christmas Village in Philadelphia runs from Thanksgiving Day through Christmas Eve from 11am until 8pm daily (exception Sunday: until 7pm)
Banners for Christmas Village
11/23/08Christmas Village is now also visible for people passing City Hall through two big banners hanging in the West and East portal of City Hall.
Christmas Village is being setup
11/19/2008
Setup of Christmas Village is almost completed.
63 wooden booths, 2 timberhouses and a central stage for live performances create from Thanksgiving Day until Christmas Eve a winter wonderland at Dilworth Plaza.
Come and discover Christmas Village's variety of crafts and tasty treats.
Click here to see more pictures of the setup.
Kick off for setup of the Christmas Village in Philadelphia
11/17/2008
On Monday, 11/17/08 the setup of Christmas Village began with the two timberhouses: Kathe Wohlfahrt and Lauscher Glaskugelhaus.
Traditional European Christmas Market is coming to Philadelphia
Press Release 01/2008 - 11/14/2008
Philadelphia - One of Europe's most popular holiday traditions, a Christkindlmarket will come to Philadelphia this holiday season. A German event promoter will bring this event to Dilworth Plaza on the west side of Philadelphia City Hall. From November 27th through December 24th about 50 vendors will sell Christmas ornaments and various types of arts and crafts along with delicious European food specialties such as bratwursts, pretzels, crepes and lebkuchen. read more
$2 DISCOUNT at The AutoPark at JFK Plaza
10/31/2008
In cooperation with Philadelphia Parking Authority (PPA) visitors of Christmas Village in Philadelphia receive a
$2 DISCOUNT at The AutoPark at JFK Plaza*
Directions:
The AutoPark at JFK Plaza (underground)
15th & Arch Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Entrances on Arch Street at 16th, and Cherry Street
For further information about The AutoPark at JFK Plaza please click here.
*ONLY at the AutoPark at JFK Plaza (underground). Discount stamp available at Information Booth of Christmas Village. Only from Nov 27 till Dec 24. Only one stamp per ticket.
Santa's House website
10/30/2008Firefly Photography of Rittenhouse Square is proud to present Santa’s House 2008 at the Philadelphia Christmas Village located at City Hall. Santa will be waiting to meet all of the children of Philadelphia starting on Thanksgiving Day. He will be there until Christmas Eve this holiday season.
Children will be able to drop off their letters to Santa and get their pictures taken with him. Portrait packages, along with photo keychains and snowglobes, will also be available.
Santa’s House will be open daily between
November 27th - December 24th
from 11:00 am until 8:00 pm
Singing German Christmas carols
11/01/2008
Everybody is cordially invited to join singing German Christmas carols!
Where: Immanuel Lutheran Church (14100 Worthington Road, Philadelphia, PA 19116)
Date: 12/07/2008
Time: from 11am
Please click here for detailed information
German American Day 2008: Participation with Christmas Village booths
09/28/08First prototype booths of Christmas Village in Philadelphia can be visited at German American Day 2008 at the premises of the German Society of Pennsylvania in 611 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123. A cooperating team of the German Society and Christmas Village will offer bratwurst, pretzels and cool drinks at Wednesday October 1st and from Friday October 3rd through Monday October 6th. Events at the German Society of Pennsylvania for German American Day include:
- Wednesday, October 1st: “Ben and the Germans”, a historic play
- Friday, October 3rd: Songs of the Minnesingers and Instrumental Dances, concert
- Saturday, October 4th: 5K and 10K Walk with the Liberty Bell Wanderers, Oktoberfest celebration and “Group motion”, modern dance performance
- Sunday, October 5th: Landesjugendorchester Rheinland-Pfalz, concert
- Monday, October 6th: “Amerika gibt es oder gibt es nicht”, play from the KRESCHtheater Company from Krefeld/Germany.
For a full schedule of events at German American Day 2008 visit www.germanamericanday.org.
Steuben Day Parade 2008: Participation with handing out flyers
09/27/08First information flyers about Christmas Village have been handed out to the visitors and participants of Steuben Day Parade 2008. As Christmas Village is a holiday tradition after the example of German events, the German community is enthusiastic about the upcoming event.
Media Partnership with the Philadelphia Inquirer
09/25/08The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com agreed upon a media partnership for Christmas Village in Philadelphia. This media partnership includes a participation of the Philadelphia Inquirer with an own promotion booth at Christmas Village and advertising for Christmas Village in all three major channels of the Philadelphia Media Holidngs: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com.
Lufthansa will sponsor Christmas Village
09/11/08Lufthansa the great German airline agreed to act as a sponsor for Christmas Village in Philadelphia. Lufthansa will, besides others, enrich Christmas Village by handing out free lebkuchen, a popular sweet German gingerbread.
