Christmas market at the Proschwitz Castle at Meissen, Germany

Transcarpathia Benefit Society launches Christmas package drive

Alexandra Prinzessin zur Lippe and Christian Ehrler in front of the TBS Info table

At the invitation of Alexandra Gerlach, the Benefit Society launched its Christmas package drive for children in Transcarpathia on the first weekend of Advent at the special event “Christmas at Proschwitz” at the castle of the same name near Meissen, Germany.

Alexandra Gerlach is a news writer and well-known as a moderator of several programs on the Central German Radio network and with DeutschlandRadio.

She is married to Dr. Georg Prinz of Lippe, a wine-grower of Meissen, who in the early 1990’s bought back the winery which had been owned by his family, but which was confiscated by authorities in 1945, as well as the family estate at Proschwitz Castle.

Proschwitz Castle is the largest privately owned winery in eastern Germany and the oldest one still existing in the German state of Saxony.

As reported by Christian Ehrler, the honorary chairman of the Benefit Society located in Lengenfeld, the Proschwitz castle opened its doors to the public for the sixth time this year for the celebration “Christmas at Proschwitz”. Visitors to the castle, which was decorated for Christmas, were estimated by Ehrler to number over 3000. They were greeted by dealers of charming gift ideas, and peered over the shoulders of Saxon handicraft artisans, while sampling wine made on the premises and high-grade spirits from the Meissen distillery of the Prince of Lippe before an open hearth.

Ehrler and his cohorts lauded the comfortable surroundings in which the visitors and exhibitors of “Christmas at Proschwitz” felt at home thanks to the extraordinary efforts of Princess Alexandra of Lippe and those of her co-workers at the castle. Following the impressive yet strenuous weekend, they anticipate donations to be as generous as possible for this year’s Christmas package drive for children in the Transcarpathia region of western Ukraine.

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