![]() ![]() The text was elected as the winner of a public contest in 1946 and then revised a bit before it became official in 1947. It is sung with a melody by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, lyrics by Paula von Preradović. The Austrian anthem (“Bundeshymne”, federal anthem) is called “Land der Berge, Land am Strome” (“Land of mountains, land by the river”). Other German dioceses do not have anything of that kind in their hymnals, and the anthems of the other German states – if they even exist – are much less known and used in public. ![]() The “Hymn of Bavaria” actually is the official anthem of the State of Bavaria. Although I do not know exactly, I can imagine that this hymn (“God be with you, land of the Bavarians”) is actually used in liturgies: Bavaria has always kept its own customs and identity compared to the rest of Germany. ![]() Some Bavarian appendices still contain the “Bayernlied” (“Hymn of Bavaria,” music by Konrad Max Kunz, there are different text versions in use today). The Austrian national anthem (“Bundeshymne”) in the Gotteslob. As far as I know, no German hymnal after World War II has contained the “Lied der Deutschen” (or “Deutschlandlied”) by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben with the music from the “Emperor’s Hymn” by Joseph Haydn which has served as national anthem since 1922 – with some important later clarifications about the lyrics. Neither in Germany nor in Austria have I ever heard the national anthem in a service, and I can hardly imagine that this will ever happen. When the new edition of the German hymnal Gotteslob came out in 2013, I was surprised that the appendix for Austria still contains the national anthem (as the 1975 edition had done too). ![]()
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