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Christmas tree, Christmas tree or Tannenbaum

Christmas tree, Christmas tree or Tannenbaum

Long before the Christian era is evoked in the winter with green bushes and trees, the return of spring. There were also lights trees or fruit trees, which the gods of the sun and fertility were offered thanks and victim. In the north were beaten in the period between Christmas and later the Epiphany, the so-called twelve o'clock rough nights, green branches, have healing and protective powers were attributed. In England they already decorated in pre-Christian times in the days of the winter solstice, houses and shops with evergreen shrubs.

prohibited under this pagan origins of the Church in the early Middle Ages the green decoration at Christmas time. But from the time in 1600 reported that all the houses, churches and streets with garlands of evergreen oak, ivy and laurel were decorated to the birth of Christ, this delicate but immortal plant to recall.

Today's Christmas or Christmas tree has two predecessors. On the one hand Weyhe Meyen eight of the Middle Ages, green buds, which house and barn were stained - a Lebensrute (like the tail of Saint Nicholas - not Züchtigungsrute, but the highlight of this rod gave a blessing and luck). On the other hand, Klaus tree, sometimes called paradise, a triangular arrangement apple and boxwood garlands wrapped bars. The top apple was stuck with a candle. This tree is also regarded as the origin of our Advent wreath. In the 15th

and 16 Century, they took everything into the house, which was green: holly, boxwood, rosemary and branches of conifers and deciduous trees, the leaves or flowers for Christmas exaggerated. These plants were put into a corner and hung with apples, wafers, sugar dolls or toys, which the children on 6 January could plunder.

first occurrence of our modern Christmas tree is from Alsace and Black Forest reported in 1600. These were decorated with paper roses, apples, small, flat cakes, sweets and tinsel.
The history of the Christmas tree is turned to that of Protestantism connected, as the reformers tried early on all the popular pagan customs to remove from the Christmas party. These customs include: processions peasant woman Perchta, Mother Holle, the Julbock rattle or bracket and another masquerade. It was they who moved the children from St. Nicholas to the Christmas Giving. Thus the Christmas tree symbol of the Protestant churches and the nativity scene which the Catholic Christians. Until the 2nd World War was thus the Christmas tree disuse in Italy, Spain, France and Austria - in the Catholic countries of Europe. Hessian soldiers and emigrants, the fir tree in the 17 and 18 Century, taken to America. In the 19th Century, the general focus of the lights fir Christmas party and placed in the churches of both denominations. In the time of the Napoleonic wars was the Christmas tree is a sign of the Germans and was widely distributed across Europe.