Old German Christmas market in Bad Wimpfen
Old German Christmas market in Bad Wimpfen is held on November 28. It begins on Friday and runs through the first three weekends of Advent. This event in the third decade of the month November is annual. 
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The spa town of Bad Wimpfen is located in the Heilbronn-Franken region of Baden-Württemberg.
Guild market held annually on the last weekend in August with medieval craftsmen, formerly the potters' harbor market, first mentioned in 1391. Old German Christmas market against the atmospheric backdrop of a medieval town, always on the first three weekends of Advent.
The Bad Wimpfen Christmas market is one of the oldest of its kind in Germany. As early as 1487, Emperor Frederick III granted the then imperial city of Wimpfen the privilege of holding a market before Christmas - the former St. Catherine's Market.
The Dresden Striezelmarkt, the largest of the Christmas markets in Dresden, dates back to a privilege granted by the Saxon Elector Frederick II in 1434, which allowed a one-day free market on the Altmarkt "on the day before Christmas Eve". It is one of the oldest Christmas markets in the German-speaking world and is still held annually on the Altmarkt in Dresden. With around 230 stalls and two and a half million visitors, it is also one of the most visited markets in Germany.
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