"Vater unser im Himmelreich" (Our Father in Heaven) is a Lutheran hymn in German by Martin Luther.

[3] Luther revised the text several times, as extant manuscript show, concerned to clarify and improve it.

[5] The hymn was published in Leipzig in 1539 in Valentin Schumann's hymnal Gesangbuch,[5] with a title explaining "The Lord's Prayer briefly expounded and turned into metre".

[7] 1 Vater unser im Himmelreich, Der du uns alle heißest gleich Brüder sein und dich rufen an Und willst das Beten von uns han, Gibt, daß nicht bet allein der Mund, Hilf, daß es geh von Herzensgrund.

Behüt uns, Herr, vor falscher Lehr, Das arm verführet Volk belehr.

3 Es kommt dein Reich zu dieser Zeit Und dort hernach in Ewigkeit.

Des Satans Zorn und groß Gewalt Zerbrich, vor ihm dein Kirch erhalt.

4 Dein Will gescheh, Herr Gott, zugleich Auf Erden und im Himmelreich.

Bescher uns auch ein seligs End, Nimm unser Seel in deine Händ.

[9] The original rhythm is also sometimes altered, as for example in a harmonisation by Johann Sebastian Bach:[10] Numerous composers used the hymn tune, some also the text.

Johann Ulrich Steigleder composed 40 three-part variations on the hymn tune and published them as a Tabulaturbuch in Strasbourg in 1627.

Johann Pachelbel included a chorale prelude in his liturgical collection Erster Theil etlicher Choräle.

The freely composed chorale prelude BuxWV 207 has three separate verses: the first two for manuals alone have one or two quasi-improvisatory voices accompanying a plain cantus firmus; the third verse is a four-part setting for two manuals and pedal with a highly ornamented cantus firmus in the soprano voice.

The cantus firmus is also elaborately developed in Buxtehude's ornamental choral prelude BuxWV 219 for two manuals and pedal.