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Just outside Eutin, Germany stands an oak tree. The Bridegroom Oak is so famous it even has its own postal address and receives about 40 letters a day, sent from people seeking love all around the world. Amazing, considering the availability of dating apps in this modern age.
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Though this famous oak tree is 500 years old, it only became a love facilitator around 100 years ago, when it became the centre of a now legendary love story.
In 1890, Minna, a local girl, fell in love with a young chocolate mixer named Wilhelm. However, Minna’s father opposed their relationship and forbid her from seeing Wilhelm. Instead of giving up on each other, the lovebirds exchanged love letters in secret, by leaving them in a knothole of the Bridegroom Oak.
After about a year, Minna’s father found out that the two of them were still together, but instead of punishing them, he gave them permission to marry. Which they did, on 2 June 1891, under the branches of the oak tree that kept their romance alive.
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The couple’s story spread throughout the world and now, people unable to find love have written and sent love letters to the tree. By 1927, the tree had become so popular that the Deutsche Post assigned it its own address and postal code.
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Love seekers visiting the tree must follow just one simple rule. They can check all the letters in its knothole, and take the one they wish to reply to, but they have to put all the others back into the hole for others to find.
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So, does writing to the tree actually find you love? Well, the BBC reports that the tree has resulted in at least 100 marriages, as well as many other romantic relationships.
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