Deathlike Sundays: Oktober 7 2018
Today's Sunday and if you know Germany then you know that there's nothing going besides church or football (Even so, few people go to watch a football game in a stadium and even fewer go to church). OK, there are other sports in Germany but they are only acknowledged when there is a big competition. And even then there must happen something spectacular - and I really mean spectacular. The German icehockey team defeating Canada and advancing to the final at the Olympic Games, something that had never happened before? A shrug, perhaps "Oh, that's nice" and then business as usual.
But I digress - I wanted to talk about the deadness that are sundays in Germany. No shops are open (bakeries and florists open for two or three hours in the morning) and there's nothing to do but stay at home. And even if there are a dozen things to do in the house you can't do them. Cleaning the windows? Inconceivable. Hauling out the vacuum cleaner or the lawn mower? Frowned upon or even forbidden.
Anyway, I think that's the reason why taking a walk is a traditional thing you do in Germany. And even though live has changed a lot in the last decades there's still nothing to do on Sundays and people still go for a walk on Sunday afternoon :)
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Gosh - like England when I was a child. A friend asked me the other day if I remembered when petrol stations used to close at 5.30pm on a Saturday and didn't open again until Monday morning. Was the weather nice?
You wrote the comment while I was still editing the post ;) Weather was nice otherwise I probably would have stayed at home.
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Your statement:
has encouraged me searching for numbers. I found out corresponding to sonntagsblatt.de that 13% of all catholics in Germany are going to church ⛪ every sunday thats 3 029 000. It sounds to "high" but thats what they say.
13 800 000 spectators does have the 1 Bundesliga ⚽ in a whole season.
Conclusion. I suppose that on Sundays still more people go to church than to a footbal game.
To know exact numbers it would need much more information about footbal-leagues and other religions, but I feel there is a tendency already.
I just went with what I know. There are about six people I know that go to church regularly and perhaps five more that go every now and a dozen that only go at christmas.
But I know four people with season tickets for a bundesliga team (which means one hour drive for home games and several hours for away games). But there are a lot more tiers to German football. I know five grown up players and at least the same number of children. Perhaps a dozen go regularly to games - it's a part of small time life to meet your friends etc.
But I'm not that interested in sports so there might be more people I know that go to games but we never talked about it:)
I do understand what you mean and you are right, a personal experience does not exactly reflect what general numbers say. In my circle of friends and acquaintances there are also more people atracted to footbal than religion, but I'm not 60 years or older like more than 27% of the people living in Germany where you have to search for the church atendees. Another thing is you just talked about Sunday not Saturday or Monday. So, the chances that the church atracts more spectators on sundays than footbal is plausible. Do not misunderstand me, I'm not defending the church nor footbal, just thought your comparision of footbal and church interesting 👍
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