Kolping Sängerchor

11/20/2024

Please join our Saengerchor for a delightful afternoon of German Christmas songs with Kit Andrews as our Emcee. December 1 at Kolping Cincinnati 2:30-5p. Your purchase of a ticket @ $15 includes dessert and beverage and will allow us to continue our tradition of providing German song in the TriState. Please contact me for a reserved seat. No tickets sold at the door.
Danke
John Wegener [email protected]

We are a group of volunteer singers, dedicated to the preservation of German song. We are a self-sustaining local German folk choir (Sängerchor) that is a subgroup of the much larger Catholic Kolping Society of Cincinnati.

04/06/2022

Please join the Kolping Saengerchor May 1 at Kolping Center to enjoy Craft Beers, Food and Musik from local brewers PLUS a SPECIAL Bier Cheese (Bier Käse) crafted by Luken’s Poultry, Fish & Seafood of Findley Market https://www.findlaymarket.org/merchant/lukens

But there will be limited quantities so you need to get your reservation in ASAP.

Call Doris at 513.521.5019 or [email protected]

Kolping Center
10235 W Mill Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45231
3-7P May 1, 2022

ABOUT Mike Luken has been at Findlay Market since he was in high school, working part-time at Trefzger's Fish and Poultry stand, a business that went back several generations. Mike liked the work right away, and when he became an electrician after high school, he continued to work at the Market on

12/05/2021

Today is BARBARATAG. December 4, feast day of 4th century Christian martyr St. Barbara, so time to cut some twigs from a cherry tree, place in a vase and keep until Christmas Eve.

St. Barbara lived in what is now Turkey, and according to legend she was sent to prison for heresy by her father, pagan emperor Dioscorus, because she had become a Christian. On her journey to jail a twig from a cherry tree caught up in her dress, and she put this into some of the drinking water left in her cell.

Her father executed her himself on December 4.

After her body was found by fellow Christians the twig was planted over the grave where they had buried her, and on Heiligabend, December 24, it came into blossom once again.

Although the cherry tree is the most authentic, you can use any flowering fruit or nut bush or tree: apple, plum, hazelnut etc. If there has been no frost so far, put the cut twigs in a freezer overnight, re-cut and hammer the stem ends the next day and place into lukewarm water. The twigs need the shock of cold to begin the cycle of coming into blossom, and bring luck for the new year.

St. Barbara is the patron saint of miners, firemen, stonemasons, carpenters, prisoners and the dying.

Photo: Marion Nickig/dpa-tmn via T-Online