Due to exceptionally high customs duties, we are currently unable to ship our advent calendars to the United States. We apologize for the inconvenience.
You haven't seen these Advent calendars before.
Each of our Advent calendars is lovingly designed and tells a story with nostalgic illustrations that continues behind the 24 little doors. Open a door every day and immerse yourself in a Christmas world that will delight you. With our Advent calendars, Christmas comes a little closer every day! All products are made in our Christmas workshop in Stuttgart, so Made in Germany. A good and affordable alternative to filled Advent calendars.
Are you interested in the history of the Advent calendar or that of the Richard Sellmer Publishing House? You can find all of this here on our pages. You can even purchase a reprint of our first Advent calendar from 1946. Best wishes from Richard Sellmer Verlag - since 1945 the traditional house for Advent calendars.
That’s tradition! With us, you’ll find about 140 different paper Advent calendars. Nostalgic, childlike, or traditionally designed. Advent calendars since 1945.
If you’re looking for unique Christmas cards, feel free to browse our extensive selection.
Our Christmas calendars...
- are a beautiful decoration during the Advent season
- remind of the Christmas story
- make children's hearts beat faster
- shorten the wait until the holiday.
- are a nice and affordable gift during the Christmas season.
Calendars without chocolate made of paper, with glitter decorations and also as chocolate advent calendars with delicious filling, all of this you will find in our online shop.
Among our classics are Sellmer advent calendars made of paper in nostalgic design - let yourself be transported into a special Christmas world by the romantic scenes. Whether Victorian carousel, contemplative Christmas room or wintery snowy landscape: Our nostalgic advent calendars accompany you through the Advent season, are a beautiful eye-catcher, and invite you to dream.
Behind every door of our nostalgic paper calendars hides a Christmas picture - let yourself be surprised!
Accentuated with fine Glitter, our nostalgia advent calendars with sparkle recall poetic images from long ago. Sparkling fir branches, candles, and snowflakes create a special atmosphere and are a sparkling finishing touch. For production, we use a special glitter machine that has been in almost daily use for over 50 years.
For sweet tooths who have loved advent calendars with chocolate since childhood, we offer our nostalgic calendars filled with sweet treats. Behind each door awaits a delicious piece of fair-trade chocolate – naturally in festive shapes like stars, Christmas trees, or Santa boots. This way, you can enjoy a tasty surprise every day and make the Advent season even sweeter.
Improved recipe, at least 35% cocoa content, delicious milk chocolate, calendars available from around mid-September
We offer our nostalgic Advent calendars in various formats – from small to large Advent calendars, fold-out on the side and also as practical postcard Advent calendars, which fit anywhere.
From KlickPiloten Agentur
August 2, 2022
From Richard Sellmer Verlag KG
March 1, 2022
What makes Christmas so nostalgic? Perhaps it is the scent of fir greenery, steaming baked apples, and sweet butter cookies that brings back memories of wonderful Christmas celebrations. Maybe it is also the atmospheric candlelight sparkling in the living room when darkness falls outside - or the cozy fire crackling in the fireplace, driving away the winter cold.
Nostalgia and Christmas go together like mulled wine and Christmas markets. By definition, nostalgia is an emotion of indefinite longing that makes us think back to the past, which we perceive as extremely positive - for example, the romanticized idea of a certain era or our own childhood. In other words: nostalgia evokes a warm feeling in our stomach, delights us, and creates comfort. Christmas is therefore perfectly suited to enjoy nostalgic feelings.
Experience the Advent season consciously nostalgic this year. For this, you can ask yourself what Christmas things make your heart beat faster. These can be traditions and customs from your childhood, but also small things that remind you of contemplative Christmases in long-past times. A good example here is Advent decorations with nostalgic Christmas motifs. Rocking horses, nutcrackers, and Christmas cards in Victorian vintage style take you back to a time when the festival of festivals had its own special magic. You can also decorate your Christmas tree nostalgically this year. For this, adorn it with extraordinary vintage-style Christmas baubles and use traditional decorations like small apples, nuts, or cookies.
Besides Christmas decorations that appear nostalgic, you can also establish small Christmas rituals in your Advent season.
To make the 1st Advent nostalgic, you could take on an old recipe for Christmas cookies - perhaps one you know from your grandma. Light candles in your kitchen and consciously enjoy the baking. A cozy Christmas feeling sets in at the latest when the cookies bake in the oven and the scent fills the kitchen.
Enjoy the 2nd Advent nostalgically with atmospheric Christmas music. Remember your childhood. Surely there are songs you liked as a child that put you in a Christmas mood. With a cup of tea or homemade mulled wine, you can savor this nostalgic moment. Let your Christmas creativity run free - besides nostalgic cardboard Advent calendars, there are many ways to make the contemplative time of year especially atmospheric.
