Epiphany (Dreikönigstag) is celebrated on January 6th. In many regions, “Sternsinger” go from door to door, singing and marking the houses with the CMB blessing.
Category: Austria and Switzerland
The first Sunday after Ash Wednesday is the Funkensonntag. On that day, so-called Funkenfeuer (bonfires) are lit in the Swabian-Alemannic Alpine regions.
The first Thursday in April is a holiday in the Canton Glarus in Switzerland. They commemorate the Battle of Näfels of 1388 with a procession called Näfelser Fahrt.
Every year on the second weekend in September, the city of Zurich (Zürich) holds a shooting competition called “Knabenschiessen”, along with a carnival.
Guess where plum or prune tart is eaten today? 🥮 It’s in Geneva, Switzerland for the yearly celebration of the Genevan Fast, Jeûne Genevois or Genfer Bettag. Unlike the Eidgenössische Dank-, Buss- und Bettag 🙏 in the rest of Switzerland which falls on the third Sunday in September, Jeûne Genevois is celebrated on the Thursday […]