This year’s installment of the City’s Christmas market has caused confusion between Luxembourgish stalls and Luxembourg City’s Public Spaces, Festivals and Markets municipal department according to Jérôme Zellweger, who owns a family-run stall and wants to pass it on to his daughter.
This year he did not get a place at the City’s Christmas market but he is not the only stallholder that did not make it on the list, even though the Christmas market was founded in 1984 to support Luxembourgish fairground businesses in making ends meet through the winter season.
40% of his income comes from Luxembourg’s annual Schueberfouer and 40% comes from the Christmas market. Entering a Christmas market abroad is practically impossible, Zellweger explains.
Patrick Goldschmidt, the responsible alderman, says: “If we have 30 spots but 100 registrations, 70 stallholders will not have a place at the market. There is always disappointment.”
“We work with a points-based system,” Goldschmidt explains. Stalls are evaluated on these points and therefor the occasional reshuffle is done.”
Just because a stall did not receive a place this year does not mean they are excluded in the future, the alderman underlines.
