Germany invented Christmas Trees?? 

The Christmas tree originates from the pre-Christian, pagan times of the Germanic and Celtic peoples, who adorned evergreen plants during the winter solstice to welcome the arrival of spring. In order for Christianity to gain acceptance in these regions, the birth of Jesus was conveniently set during the time of the winter solstice festivities. Many locations and traditions that originally served pagan purposes, including those associated with Mother Holle (yes, the one from the fairy tale and older stories), were now dedicated to Mary, and numerous other pagan influences were Christianized.

I don't think many people in Germany will search in English for fake Christmas trees :o).

Of course we put up REAL trees !! You can either choose one from pop up venders or cut one from special places ! Do you know how nice they smell mingling with the smell of freshly baked Christmas cookies and mulled wine ?? THAT is part of the Christmas spirit !!

Well the term "fake Christmas tree" is mainly that low because a German would search for "künstlicher Weihnachtsbaum" xD i don't think google automatically translates it in that case

The video kind of ommits the fact that there always had been quite the high number of german settlers in the americas even before the US became an independent entity. The wave of the late 1840s that is mentioned here was a result of many intellectuals and political activists having to leave germany after/during the "März Revolution". Many (before and after) also left Germany because their religious believes weren't fully recognized in germany, that's where you get the amish and menonite communities from for example. Ofcourse there were also simply people trying to find their luck in the new world, there also were organizations who dreamed of a german colony in the americas who financed many peoples relocation. Large parts of the midwest were basically german speaking with english as a second language. The same goes for parts of Texas. Many people in these areas only fully adopted an american identity (and the language) when suspiscioun and prejudice against germans rose when the US joined the opposing side during WW1 and then again during WW2, while at the same time this period ofcourse triggered another wave of german immigrants who fled the naziregime for political reasons or because they were jewish.

Most german supermarket or other bigger parking spaces have a section that offers real Christmas trees starting latest on beginning of December. Most people still buy real trees and only very few people use fake trees.

I have only seen a plastic Christmas tree once in my life. And that was with a friend of mine whose mother comes from Canada. In my opinion, a real tree creates a completely different atmosphere and exudes a wonderful foresty smell. In Germany, more and more Christmas trees are now being bought in pots so that they can be planted outdoors again after the holidays and continue to grow.

Over 90 percent of all artificial Christmas trees are made in China. 18 percent of US homes used a real, natural tree in 2022. This compares to 55 percent of homes in the UK and 65 percent in Germany. 55 percent of Canadian families had domestically-grown, natural trees too.

Only a man would have the idea „lets take the tree from outside and put it inside“ 😂😂😂😂😂 I can imagine it was probably a woman though who somehow tried to not lose her mind with her husbands eccentric behaviors by decorating that chunk of a forest in the living room 😂🙈

Germany is the true Christian Christmas (Abendland 🇩🇪 ) Germany has the most beautiful Christmas songs and Germany has the most beautiful Christmas markets and Christmas traditions.

the environment-friendly option is to rent a tree still growing in a bucket. after christmas it is sent back to nature. we have some services for that here in germany maybe you have too?

Your scientific experiment didn't consider that Germans search for fake trees in German instead of English 😅

Evergreen trees for the winter solstice festival were a pre-Christian Germanic tradition already. There are some documents from the middle ages of people complaining about those pesky pagan traditions the peasants were still following worshipping trees at the same time as Christmas. The first documented rebranding of the to "Christmas trees" was in the 1440s. Also, it is likely that we can thank Widukind's 20 year war against Charlemagne for the tradition having survived the spread of Christianity (continued practicing of pagan rites not being punished as long as the people said they were Christians was the condition for Widukind's troops laying down their weapons). Edit: corrected a word autocorrect had verschlimmbessert my comment with

I am German. As soon as I moved into my own home I bought a fake tree which I use every year for 20 years now. I didn't like the idea to have a "killed" tree in my home every christmas. Two winters we had a real tree but with all the roots. We bought them to plant them into our garden later in spring time. But, yes, most German families around us have real trees at home until now.

Lmao some very very old relative of mine was for the longest time believed to be the first guy to bring a Christmas tree to the states, which was proven wrong, but he was the first in Wooster, Ohio and the first on the world to put candy canes on Christmas trees. Now he has a special grave in Wooster and every Christmas they put lights on the Christmas tree in front of his grave. Just wanted to share this story as I always found it amazing what stories you can find if you dig into your family. August Imgard is the name if anyone wants to know.

What I've learned today: - Christmas tree trading is profitable now - You can see christmas tree farms from space

In Germany, normally the Christmas tree is a real tree. Very common is the Nordmann fir (Abies nordmanniana), but also the European Spruce and the European silver fir.

Hi, Ryan! I get that feeling, that EVERYTHING - if it`s not african, "latin" or asian - is at last german!😏😁😄

Yeah we got real trees over here in Germany, I was kind of baffled, but not particularly suprised that you guys don't

Yes... real x-mas tree is a big thing in Germany... a tradition. You can go to a farm and choose the one you want., some people/family choose to take it down themselves.... we do it every year. Besides that, you can buy them everywhere, even at Aldi. 😉

The more interesting question is: How did the Christmas Pickle became a German tradition only in the US?

If i should rate, i would say 9/10 people i know would put a real christmas tree in their homes in germany. Just some singles buy a fake tree to decorate a bit :)

No, I actually think it was a woman that had this idea.... and told her husband to go out into the woods on a snowy day with -20°C to get that damn tree. And it took aprox 5 hours to find the right spot for that damn tree inside the hut.

A real tree with real lit candles - that's the way Christmas feels real to me.

Many centuries ago, evergreen plants were a symbol of fertility and vitality in pagan cultures. That's why the Germanic tribes hung so-called “Wintermayen” in their homes. This was an important winter solstice custom. The evergreen branches not only symbolized eternal life, but were also intended to offer protection. On the one hand, because firs and co. were apparently immune even to the powerful winter spirits. On the other hand, their scent was also said to be able to drive away evil spirits. The Germanic tribes are also said to have driven their herds of cattle past evergreen trees and bushes. This should bring them luck. The Romans also brought evergreen branches into their homes! However, it was the local laurel that was brought into the house instead of fir and spruce. The desire to bring some life into the house in the dark and inhospitable times was rooted nationwide. Even the ancient Egyptians, Chinese and Hebrews saw the evergreen branches as a symbol of eternal life. Today it is no longer possible to clarify where the tradition of the Christmas tree comes from. However, there is much to suggest that pagan and Christian customs began to merge here. The church fathers at the time probably incorporated some of the customs into the new faith in order to make people more accepting of Christianity.

Why would the english term "fake christmas tree" be searched a lot in Germany, where we speak german? Try "unechter Weihnachtsbaum" for a better comparison. Besides that, I think natural trees are still much more common in Germany, although the plastic ones have gotten better over the years and are therefore getting more recognition. It can also be a convenience thing for example for older people who don't want or can't go out and carry a fresh tree into their home every year any more.

yes, our christmas trees are still real, from what i know there are around 30M sold each year in germany (with a population of 80M)

The Christmas tree song in German (the original) only says 'fir tree' and not actually Christmas tree. It just rhymes better I guess. The german song is: oh fir tree, oh fir tree, how green are your leaves" Plastic is considered fake and uncultured, also plastic is evil. XD

I would say getting a fake tree is more environmentally friendly. Because you don't cut down a tree each year and can just reuse and reuse and reuse the same tree every year. My family has used the same plastic tree for almost 20 years now.

Yes our chritmas trees a real

The scent of the tree is the scent of Christmas for me. It's unfathomable that people would buy fake trees. There's something so wonderful about meticulously selecting the perfect tree, carrying it home and the moment of truth as you cut away the wrapping and see it sprawl in the living room. The satisfaction of confirming that your mental measurements were correct, positioning it at the perfect viewing angle and of course decorating it.

So we still had a real Christmas tree until 2019/2020. The reason why people often choose a plastic tree is convenience and you only buy it once, plus the needles don't fall off the tree. You can still find real Christmas trees in almost every city, even at Christmas markets. But they are easily 10 metres or taller.

Oh, this is a great opportunity to share a (rather gloomy) Christmas story from Alfred Polgar, an Austrian writer and critic born in 1875 Vienna, that I translated last year! ~Gift giving~ In the week before Christmas, the old man got the idea to earn some money by selling Christmas trees. He went far out into the wintry forest and returned with a bundle of conifers on his back to his asylum, a shed where the road workers used to store their tools. The man had no right to spend the night there, and he certainly had no right to carry trees out of the forest. But he did not worry much about that. He was an honest man, and precisely in order to remain that way, he had to interpret the concept of what was morally permissible a little more broadly. His need did not say it knew no commandment; but it was forced for tactical reasons to deny acquaintance here and there. The old man had nothing, neither property nor work, nor anyone who would have wanted to act as an intermediary between him and the world, so that he would not find it a completely pointless imposition and reject it. Sometimes, it happened, he asked himself what he was living for and found no other answer than this: to rack my brains as to why I should live. After all, such worrying is also a kind of activity and occupation - and as long as a person has such things, he has something that binds him to existence. You don't know how much some people are kept alive only by the difficulty of living. So the man offered his fir trees for sale in town. Of course, he had no right to do that either. And so that the competition and the police would not interfere with his trade, he chose a remote street in a remote district as the location. Admittedly, only very poor people lived there, but the good old man's Christmas trees would only have been suitable for them, for they were pitiful trees in tattered needle dress, undernourished, thin, rachitic like the children for whose Christmas table alone such fir scrap could be considered. There was only one piece among them that had strength and posture. For this, the man also carpentered a wooden floor cross. And so that the storm could not harm the magnificent piece, he nailed the wooden cross firmly to the ground and stiffened the fir's backbone with suitable technical measures. Now it really looked like a real Christmas tree. And the man reinforced such an impression by hanging a small lantern with red protective glass at the top of the trunk in the evening. It was borrowed from the road workers' tool shed and otherwise served at night time as a warning of holes in the torn-up pavement. The man enjoyed the tree, and perhaps so did the passers-by. But no one bought the inexpensive piece, and no one bought any of the other little trees. It was six o'clock in the evening, December 24th, and fifteen degrees Celsius below zero. No one passed through the remote street in the remote district except the icy wind that made the little lantern sway, which looked as if the tree was signalling to someone somewhere, as the men from the railway do. But no one paid any attention. Candlelight shone from windows here and there, the heavenly child had already been born everywhere and this year's boom for Christmas trees was finally over. The old man once again thought about what he was living for, and once again gave himself the usual answer. But was it grief over the devaluation of his goods to zero, was it a desire for opposition heightened by cold, hunger and loneliness, in short, this time the tried and tested answer was not enough for the questioner. On the contrary, he got into a decidedly hostile mood. It offended him beyond measure that his proud tree, which had been procured and cared for with so much effort, should remain unused for Christmas. Pity overwhelmed his heart, pity both for himself and for the tree, which really had every right to bear lights and to be hung with ornaments. And as the man pondered what he could perhaps do for himself and for the tree, he found a solution. He hung his rags on the branches, lay down on the stiff frozen ground and left the rest to the fifteen degrees below zero. The policeman, who was the first to see the Christmas tree with its whimsical finery and the Christmas present already removed from its wrappings underneath it had to act accordingly - although he would have been happy to sit in the guardroom again, where there was also a Christmas tree, among rubber truncheons, raisin cakes, notebooks, punch and handcuffs - grumbled, "nice present!" But he didn't mean it in the true festive sense.

No fake tree for me! 😁👍🏻 The smell and the needles everywhere… plus you cannot put real candles on a plastic tree. The tree selling started only these days and from what I observe, germans mostly get real trees. You see hundreds of them in parking lots or sidewalks of my town already. Actually it’s so many trees that in january they are being gathered by the citys garbage trucks, you simply can put your old and dry tree on the side of the road and they will pick it up for you. 🎄

Despite many comments here, I believe that there is a growing awareness in Germany of how harmful the mass felling of Christmas trees is for the environment. This is why there is a shift in the use of Christmas trees. And as you might have guessed, we are not big fans of plastic either. But there are other ways to save trees for Christmas. Just Google the terms 'DIY Christmas tree' or 'reusable Christmas tree'. One type of reusable Christmas tree is a "DIY Christmas tree". This is a tree that you build yourself, usually from a thick branch or trunk with holes drilled in it. You then insert pine branches into the holes to create the shape of a Christmas tree. This is a great way to save trees, as you can use the same branch or trunk for multiple years.

Christmas as a whole has barely anything to do with christianity. I'm pretty sure historians nowadays agree that Jesus was born in early summer and not in winter. And most christmas traditions derive from germanic and celtic pagan traditions.

In Germany you can even rent a Christmas tree! It's just as expensive as buying a Christmas tree, but you can return it in January

It's not like fake christmas trees dont exist here in germany, but usally a family always gets themself excatly one real christmas tree every year. PS: And those big christmas trees you may see on videos about the "Weinachtsmarkt" are also real trees, the bigger the city the bigger the tree they set up.

Yeah, christmas trees are still real in Germany. We still go to our own small piece of forest to cut one, like the day before Christmas.

No, in Germany Christmas Eve is on the 24th and that's when the presents are opened

christmas trees are normally no fake, there are extra fields where christmas trees are growing just for christmas, and nowadays there are the trees as a plant and after christams you can put them outside again

We use real Trees 😂 My Family used to cut a tree every year. It’s somehow a tradition.

Yes, real trees, but no real candles, though some crazies still do it. When I was a little kid, about 40 years ago, my parents, really young at that time, did have a fake tree, mostly due to money constraints, but I also think that fake trees were a bit more common back then. But after a few years, when they had a little bit more money, they switched to real trees. I currently don't reside in Germany, but the 15 years before that, I also had a real tree every year. The biggest one was even 3m high and barely fit in the flat. My girlfriend and I went to the same seasonal stall for Christmas trees for all those years and even after the old guy died, his son took over the business. It's a pretty lucrative sidejob considering that this one place alone sold several hundred trees for 30-70€ in about 2 weeks.

The yew or taxus is a coniferous tree or shrub. While the description "coniferous" is a misnomer in this case, as the yew does not grow cones, but red berries, it has evergreen needle-like leaves like other conifers, as pines and firs. The wood of the slow growing yew was used to make bows, as it is a very dense wood, which is bendy, but does not break easily.

The 'weird German thing' remained the royal thing because British monarch at this point was more German than British. George I to Victoria are Hanoverain line (as Hannover city in Germany). All Georges married German princesses straight from Germany. Victoria's mother was a princess of Coburg, Germany, and Victoria married her first cousin, Albert, the second son of Duke of Coburg. Victoria followed her husband's family name, so the British Royal family name became 'Saxe-Coburg and Gotha' and they spoke in German in their private. The name changed only during the WW1.

i have a synthetic tree. A quality-one so he looks as real as possible. Because i like trees - especially with roots in the earth. I do not like dying plants in my home. Also they make too much dirt over the time of christmas - and i have a allergy to them XD Greetings from NRW, Germany + A lot of Germans i know also have plastic-trees - because real ones make too much mess and costs a TON of money theese days. A Plastic tree just cost you only one time and holds a looong time - plus: No mess!

I don't think many Germans have fake/plastic Christmas tree. I searched for a small one when I lived in a small flat but they were so expensive and not pretty so I had no Christmas tree for 4 years and was so sad not having one 😅 We even have real trees in the school where I work ❤ 🎄

I love how you ask questions about stuff you dont know. A lot of germans came to US because the conditions where politicaly unstable but also high unemployment because of fading industries.

1:20 Yes there are many christmas trees here in Germany. Most of them are natural, some are lit by real candles but most electric in the meantime.

It's actually pretty cool, when you read some of the comments of the videos. They sometimes provide good and interesting information.

Most people in Germany put up real trees.

Christmas ist not the same without a real tree. It's not just the look, also the smell of the tree and the real candles lit. That is Christmas vibe. Snow outside tops it. 😊❤

Yes in most of europe the Xmas trees are reel and Denmark us one of the biggest exporter of Xmas trees

6:23 Why did so many Germans emigrate to America in the 1840ies? Not a dumb question at all. The reason was poitical turmoil: In 1848, there was a revolution in Germany (in fact there were revolutions all over Europe in 148). But this revolution failed and the old monarchies prevailed. Then, many of those who had supported the revolution had to flee the country - and many of them came to the United States. Here is a good video on the 1848 revolutions: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dPUVlVmwHc0.html

I did have a real Christmas tree at my home, and I always planted it back into the garden after Christmas. But that was when I lived in the Netherlands. When I moved to Spain, this tradition faded away. And even though I returned to the Netherlands, I never bought Christmas decoration again. Nowadays, I only celebrate New Year's Eve. I am not a Christian, and I do not like all the fuss around Christmas. But I hope everybody else has a good time.

I don't know anyone in Germany who has an artificial Christmas tree. Conversely, I don't think I know of anyone in the U.S. that puts up a real one (anymore). That said, when I was growing up in the States ('70-'80s), most people had real trees.

1808 in baveria the first law to limit poulatiom grows was made, only men and women were allowed do marry if they didt was the goverment wanted, because germany was a the limits there was not enough food for all people, they were starving. so many germens wen t to the usa to grow food, all the land in germany was taken. all the land in the us was free, after you killed the indins.

Christmas trees here are still very much real! Some people have plastic trees, but almost all people I know still get real trees. My 89 y/o grandfather is the only one I know who got a plastic one

I‘m from Germany and really enjoy your reaction videos 😃👍 Another RU-vid Channel about an American living in Germany is „Wanted Adventure“. The last video on that channel is „These German sayings don’t mean what I thought they mean”. But there are loads of videos on that channel regarding the differences between the US and Germany and about the experiences of an American living in Germany.

I'm from Germany and have a fake Christmas tree. But that is becaus I wanted a high quality one (made in German :D). And that was not cheap: €130. but since I reuse it for the 4th time this year I should get to the point where I'm saving money :)

FunFact,: The very first Chistmas Tree was hanging from the seiling , in a Orthanage, to make the Kids Happy.

German emigration to the US in the 1840s had a few reasons: reactionary overcorrection to a repressive monarchical system in most of central Europe after Napoleon, the potatoblight (it hit all of Europe, not just Ireland, in Ireland it was so severe because English landlords had spent centuries stealing the best land from the Irish population and used it for cattle grazing to then export the beef to England, the Irish population could only survive off potatoes because it was the only crop that produced enough calories per square meter on low quality soil) potatoes were a major source of nutrition for poorer Germans, so even though there was no famine, it made a lot of people emigrate, also, the 1848-49 revolutions (caused by reasons 1 and 2 above) caused a lot of emigration, and then again the reactionary backlash by the monarchies when the revolutions failed to establish a strong nation state caused yet more emigration by the revolutionaries and the people that wanted a free society...

Needle trees are green where leaf trees loose their leafs. It’s a sign of everlasting life, like candles are signs of the light of Christ. (John 8,12 and John 11,25)

In the decade from 1845 to 1855, more than a million Germans fled to the United States to escape economic hardship. They also sought to escape the political unrest caused by riots, rebellion and eventually a revolution in 1848. Peace out.

Only a real christmas tree smells like christmas….you have to pick up / search your right tree…without a real tree it is Not christmas….

When I was a kid, my great-aunt's candle-lit tree went up in flames. After that it was Electric candles only lol.

Jeshua the Anointed would be soooo confused by our Christmas celebrations...😂

A plastic tree is probably more environmental friendly when you reuse it for 20 years.

What would Christmas be without a real tree??? So funny to see the surprise expression in your face. I think nearly everybody has a real tree in his house in Germany.

Whether a plastic tree is more environmentally friendly depends on how often you reuse it. But yes, most people get a real tree. Electric candles though because it's less of a fire hazard.

The rising number of Germans migrating to the USA since 1840 is a result of the industrialisation that gained momentum since the 1830s. The german population grew, but so did poverty, and many people decided to seek a better life in the US. They got drawn there especially because of the booming american economy and the chance to get an own piece of land there. Traveling costs had also gone down around that time, so between 1820 and 1920 more than 5,5 million Germans decided to leave their home, where they had no hopes of significantly increasing their life quality, and try their luck in the US.

Australia doesn’t have fir trees nor Christmas tree plantations. Deforestation is a huge problem globally. They don’t grow back! They have to plant new ones and they take many years to grow.

Ryan, just make your next video about how great socialism is, and you will get a lot of pictures taken from space 😂😂😂

Although fake christmas trees became more popular, we still buy real trees. Mostly on big markets full of trees which you even can even see from space. 😄 Good episode.

There was a failed harvest season in 1847 in addition to the strengthening of democratic movements culminating in revolution in 1848 which was eventually put down by 1849. Some of the people emigrating because of their involvement in the revolution would later fight in the war of secession, one of the most known being Friedrich Hecker who was colonel of the 82nd Illinois infantry regiment.

Trees don't just grow back 🙈

dude, u can see em from space! like everything else! insane!

Those google earth close up images are not made from space, they are mostly made by drones or airplanes. So if you wanna have a selfie for a few months on google earth, ask them for the exact time of flyby 😀 Or if you are seeing an expensive drone or a plane flying stripes, wink and smile.

I think your research is flawed, I doubt most Germans look up stuff in English ... Still, yeah, most people put up actual trees.

Never watch something that aired on VOX, RTL, RTL 2, Kabel Eins, SAT Eins and ProSieben. They are private owned TV broadcast. The only trustworthy channels are state owned channels like ARD and their subchannels ZDF and their subchannels, as well as 3sat, NDR (north germany) WDR (West Germany) SWR (south West Germany ) BR (Bavaria) . Their movies and shows are tax payers money so they're well produced but underrated.

"Thank you for inventing the Xmas tree, although it´s a huge pain in the butt, every year..." Maybe you should try a smaller one 😀. Sorry, German humor!

a christmas tree is not necessarily a sign of christianity. I stayed in the Emirates last Christmas an tghe year before in Jordania. In Dubai there was more Chrismas decoration as in Germany. A huge Christmas tree on the Souk Madinat Jumeirah covered with christmas baubles and allover decortions in red, green and gold, in the background you had a look at the Burj al Arab. I asked my tour guide about it and he told me, that it´s only a marketing strategy, they don´t do anything else of our customes like giving presents to each other or having a special meal. - What surprised me was that there is nothing about New Year on 31.12., the christmas decoration just held on. Not so staggering after all if you consider, that they don´t use the christian calender (besides international business ?), count the time from Mohammed´s flight on, moon calendar. I took a photo in the Sheik Sayed mosque in Abu Dhabi showing a clock with the dates 26.12.2023 = 13.06.1445.

Why do you say Hola [Spanish] when you are doing mainly German vids? We say Hallo [Hal-o]. Just curious.

funny that youre suprised, we are putting up real trees. I find it quite good, that you dont :) I think the most economical and sutainable version is a fake cristmas tree made of wood (not plastic). I myself am very sad every winter, seeing all these trees wasted :( and just be used for dekoration.. some people have them in a pot, so they can reuse them. thats better then throwing them away in my opinion.

*I wish this video was 2x as long, with the explanation WHY THEY HAVE THE DECORATION THEY HAVE!! Reason: WW1!!!!*

Dear Ryan Wass. Your vlogs see a European from German -speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) As if you have developed an affinity for us Germans in Europe. I personally like this assessment. In Europe, the German Culture Circle is currently in change. Greetings from Austria.

In 1848, there was the March revolution in Germany. Many people taking part in the uprisings left Germany afterwards because of their fear of political supression. But already in the years before, hopes of democratic reforms were gutted when many German states stopped any reforms towards more public rights, despite the general agreement after the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. In France, the revolution of 1832 was unsuccessful (see Les Misérables, both the novel and the musical based on the novel), and in Germany, many people left for the U.S., or tried to take matters in their hands in 1848, which also failed in the end and led to the Age of Restauration.

@3:11 Google earth is not only sat-images. According to google they are "captured with satellites and airplanes"

A lot of religious groups migrated to the Staates also a lot of anti monarchist and mostly unemployed people. In 10years between 1840 50 2,5million Germans migrated to USA

You knock on wood for these reasons: 1. Scare evil spirits that live in trees 2. Make noise - spirits can't hear the good things you're saying, so they can't jinx them! Pagan thing, but not just in german tribe.

The 1840's were a time of revolutions in Germany. With the rise of demands for a unified German nation as well as political and economic pressures many Germans decided to try their luck in the newly independent USA. With lots of land available for anyone willing to do the treck from the eastern coast, settle in some frontier town it was often a better proposition than trying to obtain land back in the splintered tiny nations of the Holy Roman Empire, or among their more powerful larger kingdom neighbors. Virtually all land was owned either by aristocrats and/or rich industrialists. With the Watts steam engine, the steam train became a method for f traveling long distances quickly. So people in Germany decided to try their luck and make a fortune (compared to what they had back in the old country).

The history of the Christmas tree. It is already written in the Koran; Maria (Mary) was surprised by the contractions and leaned against the tree. Afterwards Jesus was born. In pagan times, the Germanic tribes brought green branches into their houses in winter. This drove away evil spirits and was good for fertility. In the Middle Ages, the church began to perform the story of Adam and Eve. As a tree of paradise it had to be an always green tree with a red apple. It later became the Christmas tree. The tradition spread from England to the whole world. Usually a Nordmann fir, the blue spruce or the inexpensive red spruce, sometimes the Nobilis fir is also set up. Other evergreen tree species are established in other regions of the world. For example, the evergreen plastic “Made in China” fir tree.

Oh yeah I wonder why Germans do not search for an english term like "Fake christmas tree". Try "künstlicher Weihnachtsbaum" and you get different results.

It is not really known where the Christmas tree comes from. Riga, Villnus and Tallinn have been competing for years as to which city had the world's first Christmas tree (by the Brotherhood of Blackheads). But Germany is considered the home of the Christmas tree because according to the tradition associated with Martin Luther, the Christmas tree tradition started in Germany making Strasbourg the fourth city who has declared itself the hometown of the Christmas tree.

Actually, Tha tradition with the xmas tree, comes from the NON Christian tradition called YULE!

Pre-Christian religion in Germany was a paganism, the ancient Germans celebrated festivals for the well-being of their god Yggdrasil ... the name of an ash tree that embodies the entire cosmos as a world tree. When Charlemagne converted the Germans to Christianity, one of these ash trees was felled. A legend says that he personally felled this tree and said that if your god is so powerful, I would have to drop dead if I tried! Nothing happened to him, and so the Saxons "were the last pagans" to become Christians in the 9th century The old rites secretly incorporated themselves into the Christian religion And the "Christmas tree" was tolerated by the Catholic Church as a kind of "replacement" for the palm fronds with which Jesus was greeted when he entered Jerusalem

i belive many migrated from europe to america back then becouse of poverty in the hopes of finding a new richer life

We wouldn't write 'fake christmas tree' in our search bar but 'künstlicher Weihnachtsbaum'. I am sorry to say, but your science is flawed.

After the failed revolution in 1848, many politically active people lost hope for a democratic Germany and therefore left their homeland. The main reason for most emigrants is and was the economic situation. - It is the same like today 🙈

Well decorating whit plants/flowers are kind of fundamental. And if you want to do it in the middle of winter up north fur/pine it is! And in the 1800 people were starving in europe that were out of space, so lika 30% of northen europe just moved to the new land