Video: Volker Kraft Easter tree
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
If it is customary to decorate a Christmas tree at Christmas, why is there no tradition of decorating trees for Easter? After all, Easter is also a big Christian holiday, which could very well have its own version of the popular Christmas tree. Probably, something like this reasoned the German Volker Kraft and began to correct the injustice he discovered. After his many years of efforts, it is safe to say: the Easter tree exists!
Volker Kraft saw the first Easter tree back in 1945 when he was a little boy. It was traditional for Germany Osterbaum - a branch or tree, decorated with colored eggs. At that moment, Volker firmly decided that when he grew up, he would also have a similar Easter symbol. Our hero kept his promise to himself, and in 1965, already being married, he decorated his first tree with 18 colored plastic eggs.
However, the tree planted in the garden grew rapidly, and after a few years, many more eggs were required to decorate it. Volker could not afford to use so many real eggs, so he and his wife made holes in the shell, released the contents from them, which were used in cooking, and painted the shells and hung them on a tree. When the couple's children grew up, they also got involved in the creation of the Easter tree, and soon it became a family tradition that made the Krafts famous not only in their hometown of Saalfeld, but throughout Germany.
When the children grew up and left the parental home, the Easter tradition could well have disappeared, but this, fortunately, did not happen. Now the grandchildren come to Volker Kraft every Easter and decorate the tree that continues to grow. In 2010, it took 9, 5 thousand eggs to decorate the Easter tree!
You can find out more about the wonderful tradition on the official website Volker Kraft.
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