The three-king day (feature of the gentleman) plays a special role in the people faith particularly the previous evening to the three-king day:
As last evening of the 12 rough nights it was considered as the worst one and was called therefore Colonel night. In the church at the celebration of the feature of the Mr. (Epiphanie) the gospel of the three ways is read, those came around the child to adore and it their gifts to bring and the water in the baptism to dedicate. Likewise chalk, Frankincense and salt for the domestic purposes. On the farms and a part of the consecrated salt is given equal the cattle, in order to protect it diseases. With the consecrated chalk the benediction characters are written the doors.
The three-king day is as holiday (6.January) nearly everywhere abolished. Only in few Lands of the Federal Republic, among them Bavaria, as well as in Austria and in parts of Switzerland he is still legal holiday.