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Christmas Comes to ELKhart Lake

No one knows how to celebrate Christmas like the Germans. Thanks to them, Americans decorate Christmas trees, hang and put nutcrackers on mantels. Because of them, we bake gingerbread men, open Advent calendars and fill stockings with treats.

Still, not very German Christmas tradition has crossed the Atlantic. Since the Middle Ages, German towns have held a Christ-child market, or Christkindlmarkt, in their market squares. During Advent, draped with fragrant evergreen boughs line the squares, selling wooden toys, blown-glass ornaments, cones of warm, and steaming mugs of spiced Gluhwein to festive shoppers.

Importing the tradition
It’s a charming tradition, but a hard one to import: The United States typically has , not market squares. But that hasn’t stopped The Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, from creating one anyway, complete with traditional German wares, food and even vendors.

Founded in 1886 by a former Prussian soldier named Otto Osthoff, this lake resort in a heavily German area near Lake Michigan was first called the Hotel Munsterland. The Osthoff family ran it until 1955, then sold it to a Chicago couple that turned it into a theater camp. In 1989, the resort was sold to investors.

Today, The Osthoff Resort is a sprawling, faux-Victorian condominium resort and conference center that caters to affluent Chicagoans and, despite its name, is as American as can be, But for 10 days each December, The Osthoff returns to its roots.

Inside a big white tent, Father Christmas passes out candy canes, sentimental folk tunes play over the sound system and local restaurateurs cook up plates of sauerbraten, schnitzel and spaetzle. Shoppers drift from booth to booth, laden with the wares of vendors who, it turns out, are happy to make the trip to this resort town.

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