How did the Christmas tree tradition start?

christy: How did the Christmas tree tradition start?
This just came to me. I’m thinking about the whole Bethlehem scene, and curious to why we celebrate Christmas with a Christmas tree.
So my question is where, how, when, why did the Christmas tree tradition start.

Answers and Views:

Answer by Diet Pepsi Max Fan
It goes back to pagan traditions in Europe.

If I may add a bit of info — North America was first introduced to the Christmas tree in 1781 in Sorel, Quebec, by a German immigrant, Baron Friederick von Riedesel. The Baron’s tree was a balsam fir cut from the dense forest of Quebec and was decorated with myriads of white candles.

Answer by tay tay luvs you
pagans would bring in a tree in hopes to preserve them for the next season

Answer by greenshootuk
The tradition of the Christmas Tree started in Europe and is first recorded in the 16th century, well into the Christian era. There is no evidence at all of any connection to paganism.

The first Christmas trees were put up on Christmas Eve and were decorated with fruit and nuts (now replaced by glass baubles and candy). Christmas Eve used to be counted as the Feast of Adam and Eve. The connection is obvious – the Christmas tree represents the tree in the Garden of Eden.

The birth of Christ, the second Adam, transforms the tree from a symbol of our fall to a symbol of our redemption

Answer by Paddy M
it was from the martin luther era…
did you know in germany instead of christmas lights they actually sat lighting candles up ontop of the branches???how crazy do you have to be lads??but anyway it originally came from germany

Answer by Teutonkönig14
They originated in Germany by around the time of the Protestant Reformation in the 1500’s when the German Monk Martin Luther invoked the Christmas tree and it traveled amongst the Protestant nations and later world wide. The Tree was also a Pagan custom of the Germans years before they were Christians, so it all comes from Germany.