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Tannenbaum Time: Christmas Harvest Begins in Germany, Where some Say Decorating Trees Began
The Sauerland region produces about one-third of Germany’s Christmas trees, where families participate in a 500-year-old tree-cutting tradition each year.
- Germany's Christmas tree growers have begun cutting trees on Monday, upholding a tradition that dates to roughly 500 years ago.
- The custom later spread to Europe and immigrants carried it to the United States during the 19th century expansion.
- Eberhard Hennecke said on Monday that the season feels 'just before Christmas now' in the western Sauerland region, where families with children and grandparents often choose and cut trees together.
- The harvest's start has made farm operations hectic as cutting begins across tree farms, with some offering mulled wine and snacks while visiting families cut trees on site.
- The western Sauerland supplies around a third of Germany's Christmas trees, and most harvested trees are sold in cities, linking regional production to urban demand.
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Immigrant took the usual way in the United States. “To us, Christmas is just before Christmas,” said Eberhard Henecke for months for Associated Press, in the Sauerland region of the country. “It begins here, which means that things become less active.” Henecke said that the region produces about a third of the Christmas trees in Germany, according to the AP. Most of the seeds are sold in town. But it has become more popular than families to take…
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