Since today is St. Nikolaus, of course the kids got a "Stutenkerl"* (for free) at our christmas market ...
... and (others) were skating there with St. Nikolaus caps
* A tradition kept for this day is baking Stutenkerl (or Printenmann in other parts of Germany).
The cake is baked in a special baking form depicting the saint or just a man.
Traditionally, it was handed out to people who could not make it to the church service - especially to the sick and old. The little man himself holds a kind of an old-fashioned Dunhill-pipe in his hand. This pipe resembles a bishop's crosier.