The tradition of displaying decorated fir trees in the home at Christmas dates back to the 1500's in Germany, though decorating the home with evergreen boughs during winter had been done since ancient times in Europe.
Trees and plants that stay green during the cold winter months, such as the fir tree, were believed to ward off evil spirits, and were symbols of life and resurrection.
The Georgians have their own traditional Christmas tree called Chichilaki, made
from dried up hazelnut or walnut branches that are shaped to form a small ...
Legend has it that Queen Charlotte's compatriot, Martin Luther, the religious
reformer, invented the Christmas tree. One winter's night in 1536, so the story
... in year 1510. Martin Luther Christmas tree was not in Riga history records. ...
Lego bricks were first created in the 1930s by a Danish carpentry company.
The history of Christmas Trees, when they became popular and what they mean
... people made pyramids of woods and they were decorated to look like a tree ...
Find out more about the history of History of Christmas Trees, including ...
Evergreen trees are decorated with stars, sunbursts, and snowflakes made from
1510 – The first written record of a decorated Christmas Tree comes from Riga,
Latvia. Men of the local merchants' guild decorated a tree with artificial roses, ...
The traditional Christmas tree is a fir tree but now-a-days more people buy ... This
made people very worried because they believed that without tree-spirits the ...
The first decorated Christmas tree was in Riga, Latvia in 1510. ... Artificial
Christmas trees made largely from aluminum were manufactured in the United
The modern Christmas trees appeared in the middle 1500's. ... Attempts were
made to use a mixture of lead and tin, but this was heavy and tended to break ...