It rises meters high, illuminated from the inside in green and red: a good two dozen men from Schleswig-Holstein have built a glass pyramid from 5038 grain bottles. "We started at 6.30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday morning," said co-initiator Hauke Böge after completing the construction work in Bendorf near Wacken.
The almost 6.50 meter high bottle mill has a diameter of four meters and consists of 20 floors. The team of about 25 friends, neighbors and colleagues installed 0.7 liter grain bottles from a North German company for the glass Christmas tree.
"We collected them from the inns and tent festivals in the region," said Böge. The men between the ages of 16 and 55 alone could not have emptied this amount of bottles: "For God's sake! You can't do it!" The top of the pyramid is a three-liter grain bottle.
Nice snap idea
The team from Bendorf-Oersdorf stands in front of a fir tree made from 5037 empty grain bottles. Finally, a 5038th grain bottle was placed on the tip to get an entry in the Guinness Book of Records with the tree.
Hauke Böge came up with the idea: "We collected the bottles from the inns and tent festivals in the region."
Luminous glass construction: the schnapps tree can be admired until December 29 - then it goes into the glass container.
It is still unclear whether the men built the largest bottle pyramid in Germany with the plant. "We still want to submit this for the Guinness Book of Records, but so far they haven't reported back yet," said Böge.
The tree is to remain on the site of the fire fighting equipment house in Bendorf until December 29. "Then," says Böge, "he gets in the glass container."
