Sunday Shopping Phenomenon

Since 01 December 2009 is in Schleswig-Holstein, the new shop closing law. Accordingly, all transactions from Monday to Saturday for 24 hours fully in their opening times. A Sunday shops are generally not provided in this Act. However the local authorities identify four shopping Sundays in the year, may be open to where the business until a maximum of 18 clock. The shopping on Sunday so nothing prevents more.

In the border area to Denmark there is an advanced system to the “Sunday shopping”, so that may have opened the business Sunday from 11am to 23 clock. Florists, bakers and newsagents are allowed to open Sundays, 5 hours, travel accessories retailer consistently even. Through the scheme baths in Schleswig-Holstein, it is also traders of goods of daily consumption of durable and non-permitted in the tourist resorts, Sundays and public holidays from 11 bis 19 clock in the period of 15 December 31 to open in October. However, on 01 may May only the shop owners themselves are behind the shop counter. Thus offers a holiday destination Schleswig-Holstein virtually unlimited shopping experience.

Nevertheless, the shops are Sundays in Schleswig-Holstein are also often linked to festivals or other public attractions to enrich the shopping and the city still fun and often attract tens of thousands in the centers.