Maiboom love beech

The Maiboomsche Liebesbuche is located near the Kuhmühlenteich in Hamburg on the corner of Eilenau / Lessingstrasse. Here, love wishes and hopes are pinned on a notice board

The Maiboomsche Liebesbuche is a beech in Hamburg-Hohenfelde in the corner property Eilenau / Lessingstraße on the edge of the Kuhmühlenteich . On a pin board in front of the tree, notes with wishes for happiness in love and thanks for fulfilled love are pinned.

history

Information board

The garden house of the Hamburg merchant family Maiboom stood on the property from 1795 to 1845. During the French period in Hamburg , this was where Clemens Maiboom, a member of the Patriotic Circle, and Clothilde Gauthier, daughter of a French envoy, met secretly. The two of them planted this beech tree as a symbol of their love when they were old.

The pin board

Maiboom's love beech in winter

People who are in love or abandoned can post messages and wishes on slips of paper on the pin board . Text examples: “We will always stay together”, “In love and in great connection”, “give me back the love of my life”. The owner of the property looks after the beech and the pin board.

Web links

Commons : Maiboomsche Liebesbuche - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Marlies Assel: Visits to the love beech. In: Hohenfelder Bürgererverein from 1883 r. V., districts of Hohenfelde and Uhlenhorst, Rundschau , 4/2018, p. 11 ( online, 2.1 MB ).

53.565783 10.030496Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '56.8 " N , 10 ° 1' 49.8" E

[bvhu_4-2018-1] A ^b Marlies Assel: Visits to the love beech. In: Hohenfelder Bürgererverein from 1883 r. V., districts of Hohenfelde and Uhlenhorst, Rundschau , 4/2018, p. 11 ( online, 2.1 MB ).