Talk:Northern Germany

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Culture of Northern Germany[edit]

What is the culture of Northern Germany? Any national costumes or anything? Angie Y. (talk) 01:46, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Norther Germany contains of divers variety of several regions, each with traditional costumes. Those costumes are rarely worn nowadays and don't play any role in contempary culture. At the best, they can be observe at the appereance of traditional folk dance groups or traditional celebrations, such as the harvast celebrations in rural areas or celebrations of the numberous sport-shooting guilds.--Zarbi1 (talk) 12:53, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

~It is a little bit more: It is the country of the Grimm brothers. The Sababurg is the place of the Sleeping Beauty - German Dornröschen - and at the Trendelburg nearby the pigtail has survived the times. Folk dancing still can be done at some places. But the bulk of the old customs takes place at Walburgisnacht, the night to the first May - Tanz in den Mai - beware - its cold then. At this night the hags come to live - thousands - especially in the Harz mountains. The performances in Thale are impressive, especially for kids. By the way, all that are legends not only fairy tails. Historically something has taken place there. The language is Plattdeutsch or Niederdeutsch or Low German with - besides Friesian with an own subgrouping of the Germanic languages - an continuum of dialects from Hazebrouck in French Flandre to Memelland, today in Lituania. It is as divers as the continuum of dialects of High German, spoken from Gressoney in Italy and the Wallis to the High German dialects of the Sette and Treice Communi in Italy and the German spoken by the Schwaben in Hungary and the Sachsen in Romania. So High German actually is a kind of foreign language in Northern Germany and only lately people in Northern Germany develop dialects of High German, for instance Missingsch in Hamburg. - 46.11.243.249 (talk) 18:54, 10 April 2024 (UTC) -[reply]