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Happy tree christmas12/21/2023 ![]() Between 23 and 25 million real Christmas trees were sold in Germany last year Image: Fotolia/Paul Maguireīehind the project are Jan Weymeyer and the aptly-named Sebastian Schönfeld, ("pretty field" in German). "Happy Tree" last year rented 400 trees to the people of Düsseldorf and nearby Cologne, and is this year set to deliver around 3,000 firs to living rooms across 12 German cities. By January 6, however, Christmas is over for another year and millions of trees are discarded along with piles of wrapping paper and left over lebkuchen.īut now a start-up in the western German city of Düsseldorf has broken with tradition with its Christmas tree rental service. In Germany, the tradition for many families is to not decorate the tree until Christmas Eve. Possibly dating as far back as the 15th century in Germany, the tree tradition became a fixture in many Christmas celebrations when its popularity began to spread in the 19th century.Īccording to the German Federal Association of Christmas Tree Growers, 2014 saw the sale of between 23 and 25 million real Christmas trees, generating profits for the German Wood Association (HDH) of around 700 million euros ($760 million). Nat King Cole sang about it and Brenda Lee rocked around it - for most people, Christmas without a tree would be no Christmas at all.
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