Christmas cold, Christmas warmth

Christmas cold, Christmas warmth

Franz Xaver Gruber – Composer “Silent Night, Holy Night”: The composer, who was born in Hochburg-Ach, set an eternal monument to himself with the world-famous Christmas carol “Silent Night, Holy Night”. Gruber spent most of his life in Salzburg. Among other things, he was a teacher in Arnsdorf, north of Oberndorf near Salzburg, where “his” song celebrated its premiere. Image: APA/SILENT NIGHT MUSEUM HALLEIN

This year too, the Christmas holidays are far too warm. It is firmly anchored in our consciousness that it has to be cold at Christmas, perhaps simply so that the mulled wine really tastes good. Glittering white blankets of snow and freezing cold nights undoubtedly have their beauty. When the assistant priest Joseph Mohr wrote the consoling text of the Silent Night Song in 1816 in Lungau, which is still notorious for its coldness, to which Franz X.

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