What some called the fritters by one name, we called them Ferden. Nearly all on both mother and father's side were from Schleswig-Holstein coming to Scott Co. Iowa. My Grandpa Koenig was born in Burg, Dithmarschen. Besides the Ferden, which I just made for our Christmas Eve meal, we also had gritwurst. It is called by other names also. That was our traditional Christmas Eve meal, Ferden and gritwurst. Now in South Carolina I have located a place to get gritwurst for next year. Froeliche Weihnachten. Dave Koenig > Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:05:45 -0800 > From: jlrasch@yahoo.com > To: schleswig-holstein-roots@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS] How was Christmas celebrated? > > Christmas Greetings, Can anyone direct me to a website or other documentation of how the people of Schleswig celebrated Christmas? Did they have predominately German cultural practices or Danish? > My family, who were Lutheran, settled initially in Western Iowa. My Great Aunts and Uncles told of how they were not allowed to see the Christmas tree or the gifts below it until Christmas morning. In fact I do not believe that the tree was even put up until Christmas eve. They had real candles that they lit on the branches too. I assume they went to mass that morning but am not sure as religion and faith were not talked of any more than politics. My Grandpa was a baker and so I assume there were lots of baked goodies to be enjoyed. > My Dad was rather particular as to how the whole tree decorating happened too. I am wondering if this was a result of the depression era or if it has roots in his heritage. > (Rasch, Pieper, Thomsen, Thomssen, Lorensen, Evers, Trede, Thiedemann, Hitscher) > > John Rasch(Rootsweb Family Trees: Bartley2007 // Schleswig towns: Kiesbyfeld, Lindaukamp, Kius, Boren / USA: Davenport, IA; - Scott Co. IA; - Minden, IA; Denver, Co; - Herrick, SD; - Greeley, NE; - Milwaukee, WI > Merry ChristmasJohn > "...which He prepared..." Ephesians 2 > ==== SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Technical Terms and Rules of the S-H-ROOTS: > http://www.genealogy-sh.com/faq-sh-roots/index.htm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dave, we had something called gritvous that we ate. It was made of cracklings, oatmeal and raisins. We didn't have it for Christmas but only when my mom was willing to make it. Is that anything like the gritwurst? On Dec 24, 2011, at 9:30 PM, dave koenig wrote: > > What some called the fritters by one name, we called them Ferden. > Nearly all on both mother and father's side were from Schleswig- > Holstein coming to Scott Co. Iowa. My Grandpa Koenig was born in > Burg, Dithmarschen. Besides the Ferden, which I just made for our > Christmas Eve meal, we also had gritwurst. It is called by other > names also. That was our traditional Christmas Eve meal, Ferden and > gritwurst. Now in South Carolina I have located a place to get > gritwurst for next year. Froeliche Weihnachten. Dave Koenig >> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:05:45 -0800 >> From: jlrasch@yahoo.com >> To: schleswig-holstein-roots@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS] How was Christmas celebrated? >> >> Christmas Greetings, Can anyone direct me to a website or other >> documentation of how the people of Schleswig celebrated Christmas? >> Did they have predominately German cultural practices or Danish? >> My family, who were Lutheran, settled initially in Western Iowa. >> My Great Aunts and Uncles told of how they were not allowed to see >> the Christmas tree or the gifts below it until Christmas morning. >> In fact I do not believe that the tree was even put up until >> Christmas eve. They had real candles that they lit on the branches >> too. I assume they went to mass that morning but am not sure as >> religion and faith were not talked of any more than politics. My >> Grandpa was a baker and so I assume there were lots of baked >> goodies to be enjoyed. >> My Dad was rather particular as to how the whole tree decorating >> happened too. I am wondering if this was a result of the >> depression era or if it has roots in his heritage. >> (Rasch, Pieper, Thomsen, Thomssen, Lorensen, Evers, Trede, >> Thiedemann, Hitscher) >> >> John Rasch(Rootsweb Family Trees: Bartley2007 // Schleswig towns: >> Kiesbyfeld, Lindaukamp, Kius, Boren / USA: Davenport, IA; - Scott >> Co. IA; - Minden, IA; Denver, Co; - Herrick, SD; - Greeley, NE; - >> Milwaukee, WI >> Merry ChristmasJohn >> "...which He prepared..." Ephesians 2 >> ==== SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >> Technical Terms and Rules of the S-H-ROOTS: >> http://www.genealogy-sh.com/faq-sh-roots/index.htm >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCHLESWIG- >> HOLSTEIN-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ==== SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Technical Terms and Rules of the S-H-ROOTS: > http://www.genealogy-sh.com/faq-sh-roots/index.htm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCHLESWIG- > HOLSTEIN-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message