Christkindl Square

I remember as a kid when my mom and I would would travel to Pontiac, Michigan to shop each Christmas. Streets were lit up with Christmas lights and shop windows were filled with wonderful animated Christmas scenes. I especially loved the toy displays.

The Lemax’s Christkindl Square has Tudor style buildings with open wood slat designs and wall plaster, heavy cream color masonry, shuttered windows, high peaked roofs with colorful colored tiles, long chimneys, and gold capped roof peaks. Beautiful! And the lights-so many lights! It’s all powered with three AA batteries (not included).

What a little, quaint town by Lemax! It reminds me of the shops in Michigan that populated the many German villages I visited with my brother and his wife.

There a variety of windows and shop fronts, porches and the large Christmas tree in the courtyard-just look at the colorful glass ornaments on the tree and the huge lit up star on its top! Perched on the roofs of two small shops the tree stands as high as the tallest building.

All the stores feature shop owners regaled in their Christmas finest selling their wares such as rum, spirited drinks, nutcracker figures, coffee, hot chocolate and Christmas tree ornaments.

The multi-story buildings all have high-pitched roofs, multi-pane windows of all sizes with frames in brown, white and red. Some windows have shutters of green. Six small shops front the buildings all selling their Christmas/holiday wares. One building has a large clock on its second story. Check out the drapery decoration!

Each small cubby hole shop has its own bright and festive sign. A cluster of people of all ages gather around and in the shops. All wear winter clothing bundled against the cold. There are holiday shoppers, carolers and a family with their kids.

Several sign placards are on the gray cobblestone walkway along with barrels and a waste can. The types is small but all of the signs are legible, colorful and reek Christmas.

Large, step stairs lead to the main building cluster entrance. Patches of snow are on the roofs. Everything looks so festive and alive with the hustle and bustle of the shoppers and families.

The details of the buildings are remarkable from the stone work to the classic roof tops to building structures to variety of windows.

Garlands, lit store fronts, chimney of red brick and twin smoke stacks, building eave lights in a rainbow of colors, intimate doorways and niches, small Christmas trees, and a Santa and his reindeer decoration flies above the buildings from rooftop to rooftop.

Just when I think Lemax holiday displays can’t get any better-they do.

This year Lemax Christmas villages, townships and various figures and set-ups pack in the details, are sculpted to perfection and feature various lights, sounds and action.

My wife took one look at Christkindl Square and declared, ”This is going under our Christmas Tree! The kids will love it!” And so do I. Bravo Lemax artists, designers, colorists, sculptor and packagers.

The entire Christkindl Square comes in a clear plastic front flip lid box decorated with lots of color photos and the Christkindl Square is packaged in a clever three-side form-fitted cardboard container with little clips that keep the triptych in place. I am impressed.

1 Corinthians 13:13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.