{"id":9152,"date":"2021-08-31T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funkygermany.com\/?p=9152"},"modified":"2021-08-25T13:59:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T11:59:25","slug":"german-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funkygermany.com\/en\/german-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine German records that are unique in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Germany is not only the land of poets and thinkers, but also has a lot of places with world records to offer. Want to see some examples? There is the highest church tower (Ulm), the longest bar (D\u00fcsseldorf) or the Speicherstadt as the world’s largest historic warehouse complex (Hamburg). In addition to these well-known records, there are many other places in the Federal Republic that are unique in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

German records in Northern Germany<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The most romantic tree in the world: groom’s oak in Eutin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Schleswig-Holstein<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A true Romeo and Juliet story took place in Eutin<\/strong> in 1890: A forbidden love between a Leipzig chocolate factory son and the Dodau forester’s daughter led to secret meetings and love letter writing, which were hidden in the knothole of the old oak tree standing in the Dodau forest. The marriage was performed a year later under this very tree with parental blessing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gradually, more and more lovers used this place to express their love, so that from 1927 a ladder was placed at the natural “love mailbox” and the post office delivered letters. To this day, singles can send their personal ad to the “Br\u00e4utigamseiche, Dodauer Forst, 23701 Eutin”<\/strong>. For a long time, the 500-year-old oak was the only tree in the world with its own postal inscription. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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