Talk:Volkstrauertag

Federal counties / date
What on earth are 'federal counties'? If Länder is meant then should we not use that term?Longwayround 21:26, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

We can use "Länder" or "states".

I have given the article a thorough editing to make it sound like English rather than a poor translation by a non-native speaker. There's one matter of fact that needs to be resolved, though:

A proposed date in spring, Invocavit (the first Sunday in Lent) or Reminiscere (the second Sunday in Lent), was in Passiontide.

The two Sundays named are not in Passiontide, which is the last two weeks of Lent. What was the original author trying to say here? --Wegesrand 07:35, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Simply that they were in Lent, wronly using the terms. However, I think our Protestant fellowcountrymen speak of the whole of Lent as Passiontide, avoiding the Catholic term Fastenzeit, i. e. Fasting Time, since Protestants don't fast. (Since the reform of the liturgy, some Catholics sometimes take Fastenzeit as a colloquialism for "Paschal Penance Time" how they call it, hony soit qui mal y pense.) And Quadragesima seems to have come into disuse. For Fastenzeit is always the whole of it, if you speak of Lent as excluding Passiontide it must be called with this Latin word. What by the way does Lent originally mean? I know it is similar to German "Lenz", poetical for "spring". --77.4.127.38 (talk) 18:22, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The original meaning of the term "Lent" (and of Lenz) is the time of year when the days are lengthening. -- Picapica (talk)

Heldengedenktag
So this was held on the second sunday of Lent, as for the previous commemoration? Some photos of the commemorations have dates that do not conform to this. Are these dated incorrectly? Drutt (talk) 15:48, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Buß- und Bettag
I added references to an older holiday with similar purpose and time, and suggest merging the pages.Jweaver28 (talk) 19:53, 18 November 2013 (UTC)