This is among the most beautiful markets in Germany, set against the stunning backdrop of the ancient Cologne Cathedral. Booths center around the giant Christmas tree in the middle of ...

The German cities that endured this Christmas tree vandalism have seen this sort of thing before, from the Protestant iconoclastic riots of the 16 th century to the book-burnings and church ...

she laughs. It may not be the most Christmassy of drinks, but it is certainly a German specialty. For Andrea Conangla, whose parents live in Portugal, Christmas tree decorations and traditional ...

A German gold merchant appears to have produced ... a green thumb’s got nothing on the Midas Touch. “The gold Christmas tree illustrates this timeless meaning of precious metal in an ...

The Goethe Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to spreading German culture, placed the first North American Christmas tree in Sorel, Quebec, Canada, in 1781. About a century later ...

GERMANY has taken festive excess to a whole new level with the unveiling of the world's most expensive Christmas tree. Standing at 10 feet tall, this solid gold monstrosity is worth an eye ...

it was during the Victorian era that the Christmas tree began to take on its modern form. Queen Victoria and her German husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, also her first cousin ...

In the early 19th century, Ernst Anschütz’s German Christmas carol "O Tannenbaum" celebrated the tree's constant presence during the long dark winter. Hulton Archive/Getty Despite Christmas ...

No Christmas is complete without a Christmas tree or, at the least ... (semi-) artificial X-mas trees were devised in the 1740s. German Moravians in Bethlehem, Penn., constructed a wooden pyramid ...

In Cincinnati, Dr. Ludwig "Louis" Rehfuss, a German immigrant who was a medical doctor, set up the first Christmas tree in the early 19th century, Don Heinrich Tolzmann t old The Cincinnati ...