German Youth Movement
The song was only rarely included in modern hymnals, such as some regional parts of the Protestant hymnal "Evangelisches Gesangbuch" (EG 542 in Bavaria and Thuringia, EG 538 in Hesse-Nassau, among others), and in the Cologne version of the Catholic hymnal "Gotteslob" as GL 736. The song was included in collections of the German Youth Movement, beginning in 1909 as "Vom Himmel hoch, O Englein kommt" in the .