in what country did the christmas tree originate?

Answer 1

Germany

Answer 2

Techinally, the chirstmas tree originated in Germany, but the Norse countries had a Yule Log and versions of the christmas tree which they actually brought over to what became germany hundreds of years earlier. This is a pre-christian symbol of life during the winter darkness and in olden times was decorated outside with edible food for the animals to eat during the worst part of the winter. Many modern pagans still carry on this tradition of decorating a "Yule tree" for the animals as well as having one in their house with more 'traditional' ornaments

Answer 3

some historians hint the lighted Christmas tree to Martin Luther. He connected lighted candles to a small evergreen tree, attempting to simulate the reflections of the starlit heaven -- the heaven that appeared down over Bethlehem on the first Christmas Eve. The Christmas tree is a kind of a residing Christmas spirit and brings into our lives a delightful aroma of the wooded area. the actual incontrovertible actuality that balsam fir twigs, better than the different evergreen twigs, resemble crosses might want to have had a lot to do with the early attractiveness of balsam fir used as Christmas timber.

Answer 4

The modern custom, however, although likely related[citation needed], cannot be proved to be directly descended from pagan tradition. It can be traced to 16th century Germany; Ingeborg Weber-Keller (Marburg professor of European ethnology) identified as the earliest reference a Bremen guild chronicle of 1570 which reports how a small fir was decorated with apples, nuts, dates, pretzels and paper flowers, and erected in the guild-house, for the benefit of the guild members' children, who collected the dainties on Christmas day. Another early reference is from Basel, where the tailor apprentices carried around town a tree decorated with apples and cheese in 1597.

The city of Riga, Latvia, claims to be home of the first holiday tree; an octagonal plaque in the town square reads "The First New Year's Tree in Riga in 1510", in eight languages. During the 17th century, the custom entered family homes. One Strasbourg priest, Johann Konrad Dannerhauer, complains about the custom as distracting from the Word of God.

Answer 5

Scandinavia

With likely origins in European pre-Christian pagan cultures, the Christmas tree has gained an extensive history and become a common sight during the winter season in numerous cultures.


Patron trees (for example, the Irminsul, Thor's Oak and the figurative Yggdrasil) held special significance for the ancient Germanic tribes, appearing throughout historic accounts as sacred symbols and objects. Among early Germanic tribes the Yule tradition was celebrated by sacrificing male animals and slaves by suspending them on the branches of trees.[citation needed]

According to Adam of Bremen, in Scandinavia the pagan kings sacrificed nine males of each species at the sacred groves every ninth year. According to one legend, Saint Boniface attempted to introduce the idea of trinity to the pagan tribes using the cone-shaped evergreen trees because of their triangular appearance.


Dionysus in his Triumphant Return; behind the god, Victoria holds an evergreen.The Christmas tree is often explained as a Christianization of the ancient pagan idea that the evergreen tree represents a celebration of the renewal of life

Answer 6

Patron trees (for example, the Irminsul, Thor's Oak and the figurative Yggdrasil) held special significance for the ancient Germanic tribes, appearing throughout historic accounts as sacred symbols and objects. Among early Germanic tribes the Yule tradition was celebrated by sacrificing male animals and slaves by suspending them on the branches of trees.

According to Adam of Bremen, in Scandinavia the pagan kings sacrificed nine males of each species at the sacred groves every ninth year. According to one legend, Saint Boniface attempted to introduce the idea of trinity to the pagan tribes using the cone-shaped evergreen trees because of their triangular appearance.

The Christmas tree is often explained as a Christianization of the ancient pagan idea that the evergreen tree represents a celebration of the renewal of life.

Answer 7

Actually at the time it originated countries did not exist - everything was in some Empire or other. But most historians place it somewhere in the Kingdom of the Franks pre-dating Charlemagne by hundreds of years, most likely in the general area of Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria, The Czech Republic, etc. It's obvious it originated in a mountainous region where evergreens predominate.

Answer 8

The Germans brought the tradition of Christmas trees over to GB when Albert married Victoria

Answer 9

The modern custom, of having a Christmas tree can be traced to 16th century Germany.

The earliest reference reports how a small fir was decorated with apples, nuts, dates, pretzels and paper flowers, and erected in the guild-house, for the benefit of the guild members' children, who collected the dainties on Christmas day.

Answer 10

Its origins definitely tie back to 16th Century Germanic tribes.