The most romantic mail box in the world that has tied strangers to more than 100 years "Okas of the bridegroom"

Long before long before dating series apps appeared, from the 1890 's that "strangers have joined together strangers"Bräutigamseiche(Bridegroom oak)There is a tree called Germany called Germany. A letter delivered to the bridegroom's oak is placed in a wooden hole, anyone can read and write a reply, and through the bridegroom owl, more than 100 pairs of couples have ever been born.

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The bride's oak, which exists in the Dodauer Forst in Hamburg, Germany, is a big tree of 500 years old and a ladder is hung. On the 6th of the week, the mailman delivers letters to cracks ahead of the ladder.

Even so, there is no indication that someone is living around the tree. The bridegroom 's oak is actually a tree that has played a role like an encounter application now for decades. It is said that over 100 pairs of couples married through bridegroom oak are now being sent letters in various languages ​​from around the world. Karl-Heinz Martens, who continues to deliver mail from 1984, said, "The internet uses facts and questions to match people, but beautiful coincidence matches people in this tree as if they were destiny I am talking to.

Although the contents of the letter are various, "I am a 53-year old manworm, I am 175 cm tall and live in Ostholstein. I am looking for a loving, sincere partner with a body shape of slender form and medium meat. It seems that there are also many who wrote self-introductions such as "I will see you" and the condition of the person you ask for.

This is the bridegroom oak.


A letter is posted in a nodehole.


A woman who actually delivers a letter by herself.


As of 2018 it is a bridegroom owl that connects strangers to each other, but 128 years ago, he played the role of linking secret lovers. In 1890, a woman named Minna who lived locally fell in love with chocolate craftworker Wilhelm, Minna's father forbade two people to meet. So the two left a letter in the oak neck of the oak tree and continued to correspond. A year later, Minna's father finally got married for the two people, and it seems that a wedding ceremony was held under the oak tree in June, 1891.

This story spreads all over Germany and people who have not had the chance to meet encounter will send letters to the bridegroom 's oak one after another. Because the letter got in too much, the German postal service attached a zip code to the oak tree itself and assigned a mailman. Since then, a ladder has been set up to reach the oak midst of the oak tree, allowing anyone to read the letter posted in the tree. If there are people who are interested, it is up to you to write a reply to a letter, but there is only one rule, and if you do not feel like writing a reply in a letter you read, that letter can be read by someone else I have to go back into the tree.

A letter has been delivered by the postman for 91 years, six days a week since letters are delivered to oak trees. Martens who serves as a delivery person for 20 years is the longest period in history, a person who is delivering a letter, but says that there was only 10 days on the day when there was no letter addressed to the oak tree. Although it is not all a love letter, in many cases it has delivered 50 letters. Before reunification of East and West Germany in particular, it seems that letters of content inquired about people in East Germany as "what cars and music in West Germany are like". "I wanted to write an answer, but my boss stopped," Martens said.


There are many couples married through bridegroom oak. In 1988, a 19-year-old girl named Claudia living in the East Germany sent a letter to the bridegroom owner looking for a counterpart, and a boy living in the West Germany · Friedrich Christiansen wrote a reply. The two exchanged 40 letters and eventually fell in love, but since the east and west were separated, we could not meet. However, after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, they finally got to see each other and said they got married in May 1990.


And in 1989 a German television station featured the bridegroom oak, and Martens was projected on a TV program, a letter to Martens arrived. In the letter, "You are my type, I am one person right now, I think I will see you," and Martens who replied to the letter met a woman and in 1994 I marry that woman. Since 24 years, Martens seems to be married to a woman he met through the bridegroom oak.

When Mr. Martens began postal delivery, the groom 's oak seemed to be healthy, but it turned out a few years ago that the inside of the tree was infected with fungus. In order to prevent infection from spreading, oak trees are said to have been forced to cut off many branches. And since Martens was also diagnosed with leukemia at the same time, Martens said, "I think that there is a special connection between us," Martens said.