Editing Christmas tree (section)

====Adoption by European nobility====
[[File:The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and (14784585485).jpg|thumb|German Christmas tree, book illustration (1888)]]

In the early 19th century, the custom became popular among the nobility and spread to royal courts as far as Russia. Introduced by [[Fanny von Arnstein]] and popularized by [[Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg]], the Christmas tree reached [[Vienna]] in 1814, during the [[Congress of Vienna]], and the custom spread across Austria in the following years.<ref name="Jüdisches Museum Wien">{{cite web | title=News Detail | website=Jüdisches Museum Wien | url=https://www.jmw.at/museumsblog/news_detail?j-cc-id=1610672643856&j-cc-node=news&j-cc-name=hybrid-content | language=de | access-date=20 September 2021}}</ref> In [[France]], the first Christmas tree was introduced in 1840 by the [[Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin|duchesse d'Orléans]]. In Denmark, a newspaper company claims that the first attested Christmas tree was lit in 1808 by Countess Wilhemine of Holsteinborg. It was the aging countess who told the story of the first Danish Christmas tree to Danish writer [[Hans Christian Andersen]] in 1865. He had published a fairy tale called ''[[The Fir-Tree]]'' in 1844, recounting the fate of a fir tree being used as a Christmas tree.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/307946:Kronik--Danmarks-foerste-juletrae-blev-taendt-i-1808 |work=Kristelig Dagblad |title=Danmarks første juletræ blev tændt i 1808 |date=17 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213095846/http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/307946:Kronik--Danmarks-foerste-juletrae-blev-taendt-i-1808 |archive-date=13 December 2013 }}</ref>