This is where the fir tree arrives for the Christmas market at Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz Photo: Spreepicture
By Dirk Boettger
At around 10:30 p.m., the OK came for the heavy-duty transport, for the extremely heavy Christmas tree at the Christmas market at Berlin’s Breitschaltplatz.
The day before, the approximately 25-kilometer journey had failed. The transport exceeded the minimum height for the motorway tunnels on the A113 and A100 by a whopping 90 cm. The branches could then be brought to the correct minimum height of 4.30 meters with tension belts and the journey began.
The highway police accompanied the heavy transport, which had to pass through several highway tunnels, and after an hour the transport, which left the highway at Wexstraße, was then able to enter the magnificent boulevard Kurfürstendamm via Bundesallee and Spichernstraße.
The transport arrived at the Memorial Church shortly before midnight. Here the Christmas lights on the Kurfürstendamm were lit up and the heavy transport parked just in front of the Memorial Church.
Klaus Peters (71) donated the 22-meter-tall Colorado fir tree to be erected in the morning using a crane.