This rural tradition is also finding more and more followers in the city of Aachen: on the night of May 1st, birch trunks decorated with colorful ribbons are placed at the house of the person they love as a sign of love and as a symbol of the reawakening of nature in spring.

The Forestry Office in the Climate and Environment Department of the City of Aachen draws attention to the fact that "self-service" is not permitted in the forest. This is because birch trees may not be felled at the discretion of those in love with them. In the forest, they serve as auxiliary or pioneer trees and in parks or along roadsides, some of them have been deliberately planted.

Points of sale

This year, birch trees of various sizes will be sold commercially on Thursday, April 30, from 11 am to 6 pm:

• Parking lot at the corner of Branderhofer Weg/ Forster Weg
• Forest parking lot Monschauer Straße/ Pommerotter Weg (at the weather protection mushroom)
• Weyern Estate/ Eberburgweg
• Laurensberg/ Roermonder Straße 424 (parking lot Restaurant Haus Linde)
• Forsthaus Sief/ Magespfad
• In Brand, on the corner of Freunder Landstraße and Eilendorfer Straße
• Vordenbusch Farm, Grauenhofer Weg 157
• Misereor, Mozartstraße 9
• Listmann, Ursulinerstraße 13 (until 7 p.m.)
• Blütenreich, Küppershofweg 13 (April 27 to 30, 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.)

Trees cannot be reserved. The list does not claim to be exhaustive.