Research Advent Calendar
The origin of the Advent Calendar can be traced back to the 19th. Century. The first styles came from the protestant area. So religious families made a chalk line for every day in December until Christmas Eve.
The first known Advent Calendar which was made by handwork is from the year 1851.
Other early styles were the Adventclock or the Adventcandle - a candle for each of the 24 days until Christmas, like todays Advent wreath. So in religious families little pictures were hang up on the wall - one for each day in December. An other tradition was to paint chalk strokes on the door, one per day until Christmas Eve.
In 1902 a Christian Bookshop in Hamburg published a Christmas Clock which was very similar to that published 1922 by the St. Johannis printing company. (Dominik Wunderlin, lic.phil. Swizzerland). The Austrian (NÖ) Landesmuseum is giving the year 1903 as the year of the first printed Advent Calendar. In 1904 an Advent Calendar was inserted in the newspaper "Neues Tagblatt Stuttgart" as a gift for their readers.
In contrast to the above Esther Gajek says that the first printed speciem was made in 1908 by a Swabian parishioner, Gerhard Lang (born 1881 in Maulbronn, Germany -died in 1974).
When he was a child his mother made him an Advent Calendar with 24 "Wibbele" (little candies) which were sticked on a cardboard.
Later Lang was a participator of the printing office Reichhold & Lang. He produced little colored pictures which could be affixed on a cardboard at every day in December.
Une photo un peu spéciale aujourd’hui ! Voici le calendrier de l’avent géant que propose le Centre Pompidou à Beaubourg… Les dates s’étalent sur le parvis devant le musée et ne peuvent donc être admirées dans leur ensemble que lorsque l’on monte dans les étages, grâce aux escalators extérieurs. Pour lire les dates, mieux vaut rester plus bas, voire au ras du sol… Bon, vous aurez remarqué que ce n’est pas un vrai calendrier de l’avent : les dates correspondent en fait au mois d’octobre 2009. Mais on va faire comme si ! :-)
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