It is well known that children get googly eyes when they discover a mega-large package for themselves under the Christmas tree. The stupidest junk can hide under the gift packaging, it doesn’t matter, the main thing is that it rattles in the thick box. This longing for the especially great seems to be rooted in the human being. All you have to do is look at the road: Instead of driving a rather practical small car that might even find a legal parking space, more and more SUV tanks are squeezing themselves onto Munich’s sidewalks and bike paths. Probably means something like: Look here, I have the greatest.
During the days before the festival, the whole of Germany naturally looks at the LED-lit Christmas trees and is often amazed at the sheer height of the firs and spruces in the cities. In fact, there is even an unofficial ranking of which municipality has the longest. First of all: Munich is not. The silver fir, which has been standing on Marienplatz in front of the town hall for a month, measures at least 27 meters and is therefore significantly more stately than the Stangerl in front of the Chancellery in Berlin. With a size of 15 meters, the Colorado fir from Thuringia is well below the national cross-section of municipal Christmas trees of 20.1 meters, reports the internet platform onlinecasinosdeutschland.com. Anyone who is Chancellor does not have the longest scepter in front of the hut.
No, Dortmund claims number one for itself. The Ruhr metropolis is even in the Guinness Book of Records with its monster Christmas tree. Trumm is 45 meters high. But if you look closely, you can see that there is a little cheating. The construction alone took about four weeks, which the Munich fire brigade can do much faster. But the Dortmunders also have a kind of Trojan fir tree. It consists of a 45 meter high scaffolding, which is then equipped with around 1700 Sauerland spruces.
So if you leave the Dortmund wonder tree aside and look at real single trees, then the Frankfurt spruce stands out a bit. After all, she is 31 meters high and goes by the name of Gretel, for whatever reason. Behind the Main metropolis is already Dresden with a 30 meter high club, and after that comes Munich with the fir tree from a Peitinger cemetery. Perhaps the respectful origin of the tree has something to do with the comparatively sparse lighting. While only 3,000 LED candles are burning in Munich, in Cologne, whose Christmas tree is two meters lower than the one on Marienplatz, there are no less than 70,000 little lights. So when it comes to Christmas trees, Munich is not exactly a lamp.