{"id":28801,"date":"2025-12-30T10:06:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/carolers-in-wolmirstedt\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T10:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:07:13","slug":"carolers-in-wolmirstedt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/carolers-in-wolmirstedt\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolers in Wolmirstedt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The carol singers are once again collecting donations for a good cause in Wolmirstedt at the start of 2026. This year&#8217;s motto is &#8220;School instead of factory &#8211; carol singing against child labor&#8221;.   <\/p>\n\n<p>Every year, the carol singers travel through many places throughout Germany to collect money for a good cause. They are also active in Wolmirstedt. In 2026, there will once again be various central events where donations are collected and the blessing &#8220;Christus mansionem benedictat&#8221; (Christ bless this house) is distributed as a sticker.  <\/p>\n\n<p>On January 6, 2026, the carol singers will first be guests at the Catholic St. Josef Church in Wolmirstedt during a service that begins at 10.30 am. On January 8, they will sing in the town hall at 10 a.m. and then in the home and workshop of Bodelschwingh-Haus. On January 11, they will be present at a service in the Protestant St. Paulus Church in Colbitz from 2.30 pm.  <\/p>\n\n<p>The motto of this year&#8217;s carol singing campaign is &#8220;School instead of factory &#8211; carol singing against child labor&#8221;. For anyone wondering what the money collected as donations is spent on, the carol singers tell the story of the girl Nour, who can be seen on this year&#8217;s poster. She is an example of the many children around the world who are helped by the carol singers.  <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>The story of Nour, told by the carol singers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Nour is a girl from Bangladesh. She is twelve years old and worked in a factory until recently. She started there at the age of six because she had to help her mother earn money. Nour lives alone with her mother with her grandfather. Nour&#8217;s father no longer looks after his family. But now, hopefully, things will get better. A project that we carol singers support has helped Nour and her mother. Nour&#8217;s mother was lent money so that she could set up her own business. Now she earns enough money for herself and Nour. It&#8217;s not much, but it&#8217;s enough for Nour to go back to school. Nour is happy and she is a good pupil. She wants to study later and preferably become a lawyer.             <\/p>\n\n<p>Without the help from the Sternsinger project, Nour would still be working in the factory. Work that is far too hard for very little money. She wouldn&#8217;t finish school and probably wouldn&#8217;t have a normal job later on. That&#8217;s why we carol singers support projects that help families so that the children can go to school and the families can find a way out of poverty.   <\/p>\n\n<p>Carol singing dates:  <\/p>\n\n<p>06.01.2026 Church service in St. Josef WMS 10.30 a.m.<\/p>\n\n<p>08.01.2026 Town Hall WMS 10.00 a.m. followed by Bodelschwing House (2 stations)<\/p>\n\n<p>11.01.2026 Church service in St Paulus (Protestant) Church Colbitz at 2.30 pm<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Die-Sternsinger-im-Wolmirstedter-Rathaus-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The carol singers in Wolmirstedt town hall.\" class=\"wp-image-28783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Die-Sternsinger-im-Wolmirstedter-Rathaus-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Die-Sternsinger-im-Wolmirstedter-Rathaus-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Die-Sternsinger-im-Wolmirstedter-Rathaus-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Die-Sternsinger-im-Wolmirstedter-Rathaus-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Die-Sternsinger-im-Wolmirstedter-Rathaus.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolers collect for a good cause in Wolmirstedt at the beginning of January 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28802,"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28801\/revisions\/28802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stadtwolmirstedt.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}