"Das eine Brot wächst auf vielen Halmen" (The one bread grows on many stalks) is a Christian offertory hymn with words by Lothar Zenetti set to an Israeli melody. It can be sung as a round.[1] Of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied (NGL), it has appeared in German hymnals since 1975. The hymn has been used for both Catholic Corpus Christi processions and Protestant Kirchentag conventions.
The melody is a traditional tune, which originated in Israel and became an American folk song.[5] It is in two parts which can be sung as a round. Herbert Bauerle composed in 1980 a four-part accompaniment for keyboard, with an optional upper voice, intonation, interludes and postlude, published in Beuerle's collection Singe, Christenheit.[5]
It has featured at Protestant Kirchentag conventions, such as 1983 in Hannover, where purple shawls demonstrated Frieden schaffen ohne Waffen ('Create peace without weapons'), and in 2017 in Berlin to commemorate 500 years of the Protestant Reformation.[5]