Übers Gebirg Maria geht (Over the mountains Mary goes) is a sacred motet by the Renaissance composer and musician Johannes Eccard, who wrote it on a German text by Ludwig Helmbold in two stanzas.

The scholar Schalom Ben-Chorin argues that a young woman educated at the synagogue and celebrating Jewish feasts would have been able to know the verses from the Thora which form the Magnificat.

Laßt uns auch aufs Gebirge gehn, da eins dem andern spreche zu, des Geistes Gruß das Herz auftu, davon es freudig werd und spring, der Mund in wahrem Glauben sing.

The second stanza encourages listeners to follow the example, and also go to the mountains and tell each other, inspired by the spirit (the chorus): My soul magnifies the Lord ("Mein Seel den Herrn erhebet").

[1] These chorale motets are said to have demonstrated that Eccard "was a 'true disciple of the world-famous and celebrated Orlandi [Lassus]'", and those such as Übers Gebirg Maria geht "reflect the intrinsic warmth of Helmbold's verse".

The fear of God is expressed in low register, while a descending line, which the voices render in imitation, is an image for the concluding mercy.