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The Best German Christmas Songs

German Christmas  songs had been sung for hundreds of years. The most popular German Christmas songs have all religious character and in my childhood we would sing them every year under the Christmas tree. The most church choirs sing the songs and here is a nice collection of the nicest traditional Christmas songs that are still sung in Germany and all over the world.

The Bad Toelzer Boys Choir sings the nicest version of the German Christmas song Oh Tannenbaum.

German Christmas Song Vom Himmel Hoch da komm’ ich her
(a version from 1979) written by Martin Luther founder of the Protestant Church. Luther wrote this hymn for his five year old son Hans; it was not pub­lished un­til four years lat­er. It was sung at the an­nu­al Christ­mas Eve fes­ti­val at the Lu­ther home: a man dressed as an an­gel would sing the open­ing verses, then the child­ren would greet him with the verse, “Wel­come to earth, thou no­ble guest…”

German Christmas Song Mach hoch die Tür, die Tor macht weit – Windsbacher Knabenchor
from Georg Weissel, 1590-1635

Macht hoch die Tür, die Tor’ macht weit!
Es kommt der Herr der Herrlichkeit,
ein König aller Königreich,
ein Heiland aller Welt zugleich,
der Heil und Leben mit sich bringt,
der halben jauchzt, mit Freuden singt:
Gelobet sei mein Gott,
mein Schöpfer reich von Rat.

O wohl dem Land, o wohl der Stadt,
So diesen König bei sich hat!
Wohl allen Herzen insgemein,
Da dieser König ziehet ein!
Er ist die rechte Freudensonn’,
Bringt mit sich lauter Freud’ und Wonn’.
Gelobet sei mein Gott,
Mein Tröster, früh und spat!

Komm, o mein Heiland Jesu Christ,
Mein’s Herzens Tür dir offen ist!
Ach zieh mit deiner Gnaden ein,
Dein Freundlichkeit auch uns erschein.
Der Heil’ge Geist uns führ’ und leit’
Den Weg zur ew’gen Seligkeit!
Dem Namen dein, o Herr,
Sei ewig Preis und Ehr’!


German Christmas Song Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht

The original version of the world famous “Silent Night” by Franz Xaver Gruber as sang by the Innsbrucker Capellknaben

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