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{{Short description|German patriotic anthem}}
{{other uses|Watch on the Rhine (disambiguation)}}
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"'''{{Lang|de|Die Wacht am Rhein|italic=no}}'''" ({{IPA|de|diː ˈvaxt am ˈʁaɪn|lang}}, ''The Watch on the Rhine'') is a German patriotic [[anthem]]. The song's origins are rooted in the historical [[French–German enmity]], and it was particularly popular in Germany during the [[Franco-Prussian War]], [[World War I]], and [[World War II]]. The original poem was written by [[Max Schneckenburger]] during the [[Rhine crisis]] of 1840, and is generally sung to music written by [[Karl Wilhelm (conductor)|Karl Wilhelm]] in 1854, seven years after Schneckenburger's death.

== Origin ==
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Repeated French efforts to annex the [[Left Bank of the Rhine]] began with the devastating [[Nine Years' War|wars]] of King [[Louis XIV]]. French forces carried out massive [[Scorched earth|scorched earth campaigns]] in the German south-west. This policy was fully implemented during the [[Napoleonic Wars]] with the creation of the [[Confederation of the Rhine]] in 1806–1813. In the two centuries from the [[Thirty Years' War]] to the final defeat of Napoleon I, the German inhabitants of lands by the Rhine suffered from repeated French invasions.

The defeat and exile of Napoleon gave the Germans some respite, but during the [[Rhine crisis|Rhine Crisis of 1840]], [[July Monarchy|French]] prime minister [[Adolphe Thiers]] advanced the claim that the [[Upper Rhine|Upper]] and [[Middle Rhine]] River should serve as his country's "[[Natural borders of France|natural eastern border]]". The member states of the [[German Confederation]] feared that France was resuming her annexationist designs.

[[Nikolaus Becker]] responded to these events by writing a poem called "{{Lang|de|Rheinlied|italic=no}}" in which he swore to defend the Rhine. The [[Swabia]]n merchant [[Max Schneckenburger]], inspired by the German praise and French opposition this received, then wrote the poem "{{Lang|de|Die Wacht am Rhein|italic=no}}".

In the poem, with five original [[stanza]]s, a "thunderous call" is made for all Germans to rush and defend the German Rhine, to ensure that "no enemy sets his foot on the shore of the Rhine" (4th stanza). Two stanzas with a more specific text were added by others later. Unlike the older "{{Lang|de|[[Heil dir im Siegerkranz]]|italic=no}}" which praised a monarch, "{{Lang|de|Die Wacht am Rhein|italic=no}}" and other songs written in this period, such as the "{{Lang|de|[[Deutschlandlied]]|italic=no}}" (the third verse of which is Germany's current national anthem) and "{{Lang|de|[[Des Deutschen Vaterland|Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland?]]|italic=no}}" (What is the German's Fatherland?) by [[Ernst Moritz Arndt]], called for Germans to unite, to put aside sectionalism, sectarianism, and the rivalries of the various German kingdoms and principalities, to establish a unified German state and defend Germany's territorial integrity.

Schneckenburger worked in [[Restoration and Regeneration in Switzerland|Restoration Switzerland]], and his poem was first set to music in [[Bern]] by Swiss organist J. Mendel, and performed by [[tenor]] {{Interlanguage link|Adolph Methfessel|de}} for the [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussian]] ambassador, von Bunsen. This first version did not become very popular. When [[Karl Wilhelm (conductor)|Karl Wilhelm]], musical director of the city of [[Krefeld]], received the poem in 1854, he produced a musical setting and performed it with his [[men's chorus]] on 11 June, the day of the silver anniversary of the marriage of Prinz Wilhelm von Preussen, later German Emperor [[William I, German Emperor|Wilhelm I]]. This version gained popularity at later {{Lang|de|[[Sängerfest]]}} events.

==Lyrics==
The following is the complete text of the original five verses, plus additions.

{|class="wikitable"
!German lyrics!! German IPA !!Literal translation
!Nineteenth-century verse translation<ref>{{Cite book|title=Harrow School Songs|publisher=[[Novello & Co]]|year=1881|location=London|pages=145}}</ref>
|-
|<poem>{{Lang|de|Es braust ein Ruf wie Donnerhall,
wie Schwertgeklirr und Wogenprall:
Zum Rhein, zum Rhein, zum deutschen Rhein,
wer will des Stromes Hüter sein?|italic=no}}</poem>
|<poem>{{IPA|de|ɛs bʁaʊ̯st aɪ̯n ʁuːf viː dɔnɐˈhal|}}
{{IPA|de|viː ʃʋeːɐ̯tɡəˈklɪːɐ̯ ˀʊnt ˈvoːɡən pʁal|}}
{{IPA|de|tsuːm ˈʁaɪ̯n tsuːm ʁaɪ̯n tsuːm dɔʏ̯t͡ʃən ʁaɪ̯n|}}
{{IPA|de|ˈveːɐ̯ vɪl dəs ʃtʁoːməs ˈhyːtɐ zaɪ̯n|}}</poem>
|<poem>There roars a call like a thunderclap,
like clashing swords and splashing waves:
To the Rhine, the Rhine, to the German Rhine,
who wants to be a guardian of the river?</poem>
|<poem style="margin-left: 1em;">A wild cry leaps like thunder roar,
Like glittering brand or wave to shore,
The Rhine! the Rhine! the German Rhine!
Who'll keep it when its foes combine?</poem>
|-
|''Refrain''
<poem lang="de" style="margin-left: 1em;">Lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein,
lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein,
Fest steht und treu die Wacht, die Wacht am Rhein!
Fest steht und treu die Wacht, die Wacht am Rhein!</poem>
| <poem>{{IPA|de|liːp ˈfaːtʰɐˌlantʰ maːkst ˈʁuː.ɪç zaɪ̯n|}}
{{IPA|de|liːp ˈfaːtʰɐˌlantʰ maːkst ˈʁuː.ɪç zaɪ̯n|}}
{{IPA|de|fɛst ʃteːt ˀʊnt tʁɔɪ̯ dɪ vaxt dɪ vaxt am ʁaɪ̯n|}}
{{IPA|de|fɛst ʃteːt ˀʊnt tʁɔɪ̯ dɪ vaxt dɪ vaxt am ʁaɪ̯n|}}</poem>
|''Chorus''<poem style="margin-left: 1em;">Dear fatherland, put your mind at rest,
Dear fatherland, put your mind at rest,
Firm and true stands the Watch, the Watch on the Rhine!
Firm and true stands the Watch, the Watch on the Rhine!</poem>
|<poem style="margin-left: 1em;">''Chorus''
Dear Fatherland! no fear be thine,
Dear Fatherland! no fear be thine,
Great hearts and true watch by the Rhine
Great hearts and true watch by the Rhine.</poem>
|-
|<poem lang="de">Durch Hunderttausend zuckt es schnell,
und aller Augen blitzen hell;
der Deutsche, bieder, fromm und stark,<ref group=N name=G>alternative: der deutsche Jüngling, fromm und stark</ref>
beschützt die heil'ge Landesmark.</poem>
| <poem>{{IPA|de|dʊɪ̯ç ˌhʊndɐtˈtaʊ̯zn̩t t͡sʊkt əs ˈʃnɛl|}}
{{IPA|de|ˀʊnt ˀalɐ ˈˀaʊ̯ɡən ˌblɪtsən hɛl|}}
{{IPA|de|dɛɐ̯ ˈdɔɪ̯t͡ʃə ˈbiːdɐ fʁɔm ʊnt ʃtaɐ̯k|}}
{{IPA|de|bəˈʃʏt͡st dɪ haɪ̯lˈgə ˈlɑndəsmaɐ̯k|}}</poem>
|<poem>Through a hundred thousand it quickly flickers,
And everybody's eyes brightly flash;
The German, honest, pious, and strong,<ref group=N name=E>alternative: the German youth, pious, and strong</ref>
Protects the sacred border of the land.</poem>
|<poem style="margin-left: 1em;">Through countless thousands thrills that cry,
And lightning fills each patriot eye,
And German youth devoutly brave,
Protect the sacred frontier wave.</poem>
|-
|<poem lang="de">Er blickt hinauf in Himmelsau'n,
wo Heldenväter niederschau'n,
und schwört mit stolzer Kampfeslust:
Du Rhein bleibst deutsch wie meine Brust!</poem>
| {{IPA|de|ˀeːɐ̯ ˈblɪkt hɪˈnaʊ̯f ˀɪn ˈhɪməlsaʊ̯n|}}
{{IPA|de|voː hɛldənˈfɛːtɐ ˈniː.dɐʃaʊ̯n|}}
|<poem>He looks up to the meadows of heaven,
Where his heroic forefathers glance down,
And swears with proud pugnacity:
You, Rhine will remain German like my breast!</poem>
|<poem style="margin-left: 1em;">The ghost of many a German Knight
Looks down on us from his azure height,
And as we gaze on Rhine's bright blue,
We feel its tide is German too!</poem>
|-
|<poem lang="de">So lang ein Tropfen Blut noch glüht,
noch eine Faust den Degen zieht,
und noch ein Arm die Büchse spannt,
betritt kein Feind hier deinen Strand!</poem>
|
|<poem>As long as a drop of blood still glows,
A fist still draws the sword,
And one arm still holds the rifle,
No enemy will here step on your shore!</poem>
|<poem style="margin-left: 1em;">So long as we have blood to tun,
So long as we can hold a gun,
So long as we can wield a brand,
No foe, O Rhine, shall tread thy stand!</poem>
|-
! colspan="4" |Additional stanza inserted between 4th and 5th (also sometimes inserted between the 3rd and 4th stanza)
|-
|<poem lang="de">Und ob mein Herz im Tode bricht,
wirst du doch drum ein Welscher nicht.
Reich, wie an Wasser deine Flut,
ist Deutschland ja an Heldenblut!</poem>
|
|<poem>And if my heart breaks in death,
You won't become a Frenchman yet.
As abundant with water is your flood,
So is Germany in heroes' blood.</poem>
|<poem style="margin-left: 1em;">But if my heart in death be stayed,
O seek for me no alien aid,
For as the Rhine is rich in flood,
So rich our land in hero blood!</poem>
|-
! colspan="4" |6th stanza
|-
|<poem lang="de">Der Schwur erschallt, die Woge rinnt
die Fahnen flattern hoch im Wind:
Am Rhein, am Rhein, am deutschen Rhein
wir alle wollen Hüter sein.</poem>
|
|<poem>The oath rings out, the billow runs,
The flags wave high in the wind:
On the Rhine, on the German Rhine
We all want to be guardians.</poem>
|<poem style="margin-left: 1em;">Flows on thy wave, while spreads our vow,
Lo! proud in air our flag flies now,
"The Rhine! the Rhine! the German Rhine!
We'll keep it, though our foes combine!"</poem>
|-
! colspan="4" |Additional 7th stanza on war postcards of the [[World War I|First World War]]
|-
|<poem lang="de">So führe uns, du bist bewährt;
In Gottvertrau'n greif' zu dem Schwert!
Hoch Wilhelm! Nieder mit der Brut!
Und tilg' die Schmach mit Feindesblut!</poem>
|
|<poem>So lead us, you are tried and true;
With trust in God, seize the sword!
Hail Wilhelm! Down with all that brood!
Wipe out the shame with enemy blood!</poem>
|<poem>So lead us with your tried command,
With trust in God, take sword in hand,
Hail Wilhelm! Down with all that brood!
Repay our shame with the foes' blood!</poem>
|}
<references group=N />

==Melody==
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% Wilhelm Greef: Männerlieder, alte und neue, für Freunde des mehrstimmigen Männergesanges. 9. Heft, 6. (Stereotyp-) Auflage, Bädeker, Essen 1869
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  Es braust ein Ruf wie Don -- ner -- hall,
  wie Schwert -- ge -- klirr und Wo -- gen -- prall:
  zum Rhein, zum Rhein, zum deu -- tschen Rhein,
  wer will des Stro -- mes Hü -- ter sein?
  Lieb Va -- ter -- land, magst ruh -- ig sein,
  lieb Va -- ter -- land, magst ruh -- ig sein,
  fest steht und treu die Wacht, die Wacht am Rhein!
  Fest steht und treu die Wacht, die Wacht am Rhein!
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==Usage in Germany==
[[File:MK9948-9949 Niederwalddenkmal Niederwalddenkmal.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Niederwald monument]] with lyrics of ''Guard on the Rhine'']]
During the ''[[Vormärz]]'' era and the [[Revolutions of 1848 in the German states|Revolutions of 1848]], a [[Rhine romanticism]] movement arose, stressing the cultural and historical significance of the [[Rhine Gorge]] and the German territories on the river's left bank around the cities of [[Cologne]], [[Worms, Germany|Worms]], [[Trier]] and [[Speyer]].

In response to the [[Ems Dispatch]] incident, which occurred in [[Bad Ems]], not far from the Rhine, France initiated the [[Franco-Prussian War]] of 1870/71. When in the aftermath of the subsequent French defeat, the Prussian prime minister [[Otto von Bismarck]] achieved the [[Unification of Germany]] and the [[German Empire]] including [[Alsace–Lorraine]] was established, "{{Lang|de|Die Wacht am Rhein|italic=no}}"—beside "{{Lang|de|Heil dir im Siegerkranz|italic=no}}"—was the unofficial second national anthem.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Die Wacht am Rhein|url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/de-wacht-am-rhein.htm|access-date=2021-05-12|website=www.globalsecurity.org}}</ref> The song became famous, and both the composer and the family of the author were honoured and granted an annual pension by Bismarck.

The song's lyrics also appear on the 1883 [[Niederwald monument]] located just outside [[Rüdesheim am Rhein]] high above the river, epitomising the "guard on the Rhine" itself.

From [[World War I]] through to 1945, the "Watch on the Rhine" was one of the most popular songs in Germany, again rivaling the "{{Lang|de|Deutschlandlied|italic=no}}" as the ''[[de facto]]'' national anthem. In [[World War II]], the daily ''[[Wehrmachtbericht]]'' radio report began with the tune,<ref>{{YouTube|S6IllnS97IA|Radioansage Großdeutscher Rundfunk}}</ref> until it was replaced by the fanfare from Liszt's ''[[Les préludes]]'' in 1941. 

The song's title was also used as the codename for the German offensive in 1944 known today as the [[Battle of the Bulge]]. However, the scenario envisioned in the song – i.e., an enemy approaching the Rhine and seeking to cross it, and patriotic German youths mobilizing en masse to defend the river with their lives – never came about in reality. Due to the German Army's preferred offensive strategy, the fighting in 1870–71, 1914–1918 and 1940 all took place on French soil, far to the west of the Rhine. The same is true also for the German offensive in the 1944 [[Battle of the Bulge]] – which as noted used "Watch on the Rhine" as its code name, but actually took place away from the river. In 1945 [[Operation Plunder]] did result in a successful allied crossing of the Rhine, but by then Germany was on the verge of collapse, no longer capable of this kind of mobilization.

Today, the lands along the western bank of the Rhine between Switzerland and the Netherlands are mainly part of Germany. The [[Saarland]], [[Rhineland-Palatinate]] and [[North Rhine-Westphalia]] are German federal states; [[Alsace]] and northern [[Lorraine]] are parts of France with a German cultural element to them. The [[French–German enmity]] was ended in 1963 with the [[Élysée Treaty]] and the implementation of the [[France–Germany relations|Franco–German friendship]], so that the danger of an invasion that loomed for centuries over both nations no longer exists. The song has only historical significance in Germany, and is rarely sung or played.

==Stage and film==
The song has figured in stage works and films.

The tune is quoted near the end of [[César Cui]]'s opera ''[[Mademoiselle Fifi (opera)|Mademoiselle Fifi]]'' (composed 1902/1903), set in France during the Franco–Prussian War.

In [[Lewis Milestone]]'s 1930 film ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]'', the song is played at the end of the first scene as schoolboys, whipped into a patriotic frenzy by their instructor, abandon their studies and head off to enlist in the army. It is also heard in the background of the [[All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 film)|1979 remake version of ''All Quiet on the Western Front'']] when Paul (played by [[Richard Thomas (actor)|Richard Thomas]]) is preparing to board the train on his way to the front for the first time.

In [[Jean Renoir]]'s 1937 film ''[[La Grande Illusion]]'', two songs are juxtaposed in exactly the same way as in ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'' five years later. In the latter movie, "{{Lang|de|Die Wacht am Rhein|italic=no}}" was sung by German officers, who then were drowned out by exiled French singing [[La Marseillaise]] (which began as the "War Song for the [[Army of the Rhine (1791–1795)|Army of the Rhine]]", written and composed at the Rhine).

The song provides the title for [[Lillian Hellman]]'s cautionary pre-[[World War II]] play ''[[Watch on the Rhine (play)|Watch on the Rhine]]'' (1941) and the [[Watch on the Rhine|1943 movie]] based on it.

In the first and second part of [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]]'s 1980 epic [[Berlin Alexanderplatz (miniseries)|film adaptation]] of [[Alfred Döblin]]'s ''[[Berlin Alexanderplatz]]'' (1929), Franz Biberkopf starts singing the song (as in the novel).

In [[John Ringo]]'s [[science fiction]] novel ''[[Watch on the Rhine (novel)|Watch on the Rhine]]'' (2005), cannibal alien hordes landing in France advance towards Germany, and Germans prepare to block them at the Rhine.

In the parodic science fiction film ''[[Iron Sky]]'' (2012), the Nazis living on the far side of the Moon use the song's tune (with different lyrics) as their national anthem.

In [[François Ozon]]'s 2016 film ''[[Frantz_(film)|Franz]]'', a portion of the song is sung by several German characters in a bar.

==Adaptations==
The tune for the [[alma mater]] of [[Yale University]], "[[Bright College Years]]",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://research.yale.edu/gleeclub/legacy/images/bcy.gif|title="Bright College Years" score|access-date=2006-03-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060922084143/http://research.yale.edu/gleeclub/legacy/images/bcy.gif |archive-date=2006-09-22 }}</ref> was taken from Karl Wilhelm's "Die Wacht am Rhein". New lyrics to the "splendid tune" were written by Henry Durand in 1881.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/99_12/old_yale.html|title=The Birth, Near-Demise, and Comeback of 'Bright College Years'|author=Judith-Ann Schiff|date=December 1999|magazine=[[Yale Alumni Magazine]]|access-date=2007-12-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071106050232/http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/99_12/old_yale.html |archive-date=2007-11-06 }}</ref>

The tune was used by [[Hotchkiss School]] in [[Lakeville, Connecticut]], for their hymn "Fair Hotchkiss".<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA8FbuQjNuk| title = Fair Hotchkiss| author = Facbrats's channel| work = YouTube| date = 1 June 2012| access-date = 20 March 2015}}</ref> The tune is used by [[Doshisha University]] for its school song, "Doshisha College Song".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.doshisha.ac.jp/information/fun/c_song/ |title=同志社のうた 1. Doshisha College Song|website=doshisha.ac.jp|access-date=2009-12-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100211235856/http://www.doshisha.ac.jp/information/fun/c_song/ |archive-date=2010-02-11 }}</ref>

Italian poet [[Giovanni Pascoli]] also wrote new, patriotic lyrics to the song's tune, titled "La vedetta delle Alpi". They speak about a "guard on the [[Alps]]" (Alps play the part of the sacred boundaries, just as the Rhein river does in the original lyrics). The poem bears the subtitle "Twin anthem of the 'Wacht am Rhein'".<ref>{{Wikisourcelang-inline|it|Poesie varie (Pascoli)/1882-1895/La vedetta delle Alpi|"La vedetta delle Alpi"}}</ref>

At the outbreak of the [[First World War]] a British song parodying the original ''"[[When We've Wound Up the Watch on the Rhine]]"'' enjoyed success.

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Wikisourcelang|de|Die Wacht am Rhein}}
* {{Commons category-inline|Die Wacht am Rhein}}
* {{IMSLP|work=Die Wacht am Rhein (Wilhelm, Karl)|cname="Die Wacht am Rhein"}}
* [http://ingeb.org/Lieder/esbraust.html "Die Wacht am Rhein"] on ingeb.org (English)

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