Many years before the invention of Tinder, this over 500-year-old oak tree near Dodau, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, became a successful matchmaker for humans. It’s also one of the few trees that ever got married.
It all began with a strict father. In the early days of the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the daughter of the Dodau forester fell in love with a chocolate manufacturer from Leipzig. Her father opposed the match (apparently he had no sweet tooth), forcing the young lovers to meet in secret. They used a hole in a big oak tree close to the forester’s mansion as their amorous letter box.
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| Name | Since | Distance | |||
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| Niederegger Marzipan Museum | 2019 | 31.2km | site_ao | ||
| 380 kV-Powerline between Lübeck-Siems and Lübeck-Herrenwyk | 2010 | 29.5km | site_ao | ||
| Laboe Naval Memorial | 2014 | 37.3km | site_ao | ||
| Medieval Courtyards of Lübeck | 2016 | 30.6km | site_ao | ||
| The Broken Bells of St. Mary’s | 2017 | 31km | site_ao | ||
| Bananenmuseum | 2016 | 15.9km | site_ao | ||
| The Broken Bells of St. Mary’s | 2017 | 31km | site_ao | ||
| A Stunning, Two-Story Astronomical Clock in Lübeck | 2017 | 31km | site_ao | ||
| Half Tower | 2017 | 31.7km | site_ao | ||
| Danse Macabre Stained Glass | 2017 | 31km | site_ao | ||
| The Devil’s Stone | 2017 | 31km | site_ao | ||
| The World’s First and Only Three-Segment Bascule Bridge | 2017 | 33.8km | site_ao | ||
| Apartment building Berolina | 35.7km | site_brutalism | |||
| Sechseckbau (today: Student Center Schleswig-Holstein) | 36km | site_brutalism | |||
| Hanseatic City of Lübeck | 1987 | 31.2km | site_whs |
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