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 ...

with its huge decorated Christmas tree, is another must-see from Nov. 18 to Dec. 23, 2024. Offering a traditional German Christmas market experience, the Heidelberger Weihnachtsmarkt is one of the ...

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 ...

Protestant reformer Martin Luther is often credited with being the first to put lights on the Christmas tree, after a nighttime stroll through a German forest under a starry sky. (Why do we have ...

Why, every Christmas, do so many people endure the mess of dried pine needles, the risk of a fire hazard and impossibly tangled strings of lights? Strapping a fir tree to the hood of my car and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...