Enjoy our large selection of nostalgic advent calendars.

Browse our range. You will like it . Here you will also find various advent calendars not available elsewhere


Discover our Christmas world

A tradition since 1945

Each of our advent calendars is lovingly designed and tells a story which continues behind the doors. Open a door each day and immerse yourself in a Christmas world that will inspire you. With our Advent calendars Christmas is a bit closer every day! All products we manufacture in our Christmas workshop in Stuttgart, are Made in Germany. A good and an affordable alternative to filled Advent calendars.


Are you interested in the history of the Advent Calendar or the history of Richard Sellmer Verlag? All this can be found here on our pages. Even our first Advent calendar of 1946 you can order as a reprint. Here is your shopping experience for Nostalgia Advent Calendars, Christian Advent Calendars, Advent Calendars for Children, or Historical Advent Calendars. Much pleasure wishes Richard Sellmer Verlag - since 1945 a tradition for Advent calendars.

Paper Advent calendars enchant the pre-Christmas season

Here you will find about 140 different Advent Calendars. Nostalgic, childlike, or traditionally designed - Germany's largest Advent Calendar range, online available.
If you are looking for traditionally styled Christmas cards here you will find our extensive line. If you prefer "sweet" Calendars, sweet cats come with our Chocolate Advent Calendars on their costs.

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During Advent, we dream of candlelight, the scent of fir trees, baking cookies, decorating Christmas trees.

Old World Advent Calendars invite you to dream :

Our advent calendars ...

- are a nice decoration in the Advent season

- remember the Christmas story

- make children's hearts beat faster

- countdown the time to Christmas.

- are a nice and affordable gift in the Christmas season.

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Nostalgic Advent Calendar of the Sellmer Verlag

Nostalgic Retro Advent Calendars from the traditional publisher Sellmer Verlag delights with atmospheric Christmas motives. In our exclusive range you will find advent calendars for every taste:

Calendar without chocolate made of paper, with glitter ornaments and also as Chocolate Advent Calendar with a delicious filling.

Our classics include Sellmer Advent Calendars made of paper in the nostalgic design - Let yourself be taken from the romantic scenes in a special Christmas world. If Victorian carousel, contemplative Christmas roomor or a Winter snow 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 calendar hides a Christmas picture - let yourself be surprised!


Sparkling: Nostalgic Advent calendar with glitter

Accentuated with fine mica, our nostalgic Advent calendars with glitter are reminiscent of poetry pictures from times long past. Twinkling fir branches, candles and snowflakes create a special atmosphere and are the sparkling icing on the cake. We use a special Glittering machine for production which has been in use almost every day for over 50 years.


Delicious: Nostalgic Advent calendar with chocolate

For the sweet cats of you we offer Advent calendar with chocolate. Behind every door, a delicious piece of fair trade chocolate is waiting - of course in christmas shapes such as stars, Christmas trees or stockings. So you can look forward to a delicious surprise every day and also sweeten the Advent season.


To set up or hanging - always an eye-catcher

Sellmer Advent calendars in the nostalgic design are a beautiful and atmospheric jewelry for the Advent season. Hang your calendar to the wall and enjoy the motives again and again. See also our 3-D Advent Calendars which you can set up. A pretty decoration for a table or a windowsill.

Our nostalgia advent calendars are available in different formats - from small to large, laterally foldable and also as a practical Postcards Advent Calendar which will delight your loved ones.


For your Christmas greetings: Nostalgic Christmas cards from Sellmer Verlag

Send a Christmas Card to your loved ones with our Classic Christmas cards series in nostalgic design. The receiver will love it with a sparkle in the eyes. Nostalgia postcards in the style of Old World Christmas cards with Victorian motifs are a special eye-catcher in the Christmas season.

Buy Vintage Christmas cards online here in our store. Browse in our large selection and discover nostalgic items that feature atmospheric scenes - such as snow landscapes, visit from Santa Claus with reindeer, sled or festive hustle and bustle on the Christmas market.

Traditional Christmas cards are also a nice addition to Christmas present. So you can place the cards as an eye-catcher on the packaged gifts. With a fir branch, a loop or small Christmas tree balls, they transform a simple gift into a Christmas highlight, with which they will delight the gifted.

Sellmer Mini Advent Calendars in postcard size are an extraordinary alternative to classic Christmas cards. They also offer themselves as a christest reconcile for work colleagues, which can put the small calendars on their desks - for a little nostalgia in the workplace.


Nostalgic Christmas enchant us

What makes you nostalgic at Christmas? Maybe it's the scent of fir-green, steaming frying panels and sweet butter cookies, which brings you the memory of beautiful Christmas festivals. Maybe it's also the atmospheric candlelight, which sparkles in the living room, when outdoors the darkness falls in - or the comfortable fire that crackles in the fireplace during the cold of the winter.


Nostalgia - a sense of longing and comfort

Nostalgia and Christmas belong together like mulled wine and Christmas market. According to definition, nostalgia is an emotion of indefinite longing that lets us think of past, which we feel extremely positive - for example, the romantized idea of ​​a certain period of time or its own childhood. In other words, nostalgia triggers a warm gut feeling in us, adding us and creates. Christmas is therefore ideally suited to enjoy nostalgic.


So make a nostalgic Advent season

Experience the Advent time this year deliberately nostalgic. For this you can ask yourself the question of what kind of Christmas things make your heart beat faster. These can be traditions and customs from their childhood, but also little things reminiscent of contemplative Christmas in long past times.
A good example is AdventDeko with nostalgic Christmas motives. Rocking horses, nutcrackers and Christmas cards in Victorian vintage style take them into a time when the feast of the festivals had a very own spell. You can also decorate your Christmas tree nostalgic this year. For this they decorate him with exceptional Christmas tree balls in vintage style and use traditional decoration like small apples, nuts or cookies.

In addition to Christmas decoration that nostalgically grows, you can also establish small Christmas rituals in your Advent season.


Groomed grandma cookies - there will be reminders

To make the first Advent nostalgic, you could make an old recipe for Christmas cookies - maybe one that you know of your grandma. Gliminate candles in your kitchen and enjoy baking aware. A cozy Christmas feeling arrives at the latest when the cookies bake in the oven and the fragrance fulfills the kitchen.


Old Christmas carols bring you in festive mood

The 2nd Advent nostalgic can enjoy with atmospheric Christmas music. Remember your childhood. Surely there are songs that you liked as a child and that bring you in a Christmas mood. With a cup of tea or homemade mulled wine, you can enjoy this nostalgic moment.
Leave your Christmas creativity free run - In addition to nostalgic advent calendars, there are many ways to make the contemplative time of the year particularly atmospheric.

Tradition remains: Our first Advent Calendar

Re-Print from 1946

Adventskalender aus Papier "Die kleine Stadt" von 1946

Sellmer Adventskalender

Adventskalender aus Papier "Die kleine Stadt" von 1946

Article no.: 100

€14,36

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