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The urinal on the tree appeared for the first time last year and was later destroyed by unknown persons (archive photo from December 10, 2021)
Photo: Heinrich Raible / dpa
First it was there, then gone again: A yellow urinal on a tree in a forest parking lot in Baden-Württemberg near Horb am Neckar has been causing speculation for weeks and fires the imagination.
Is it a sign against wild peepers?
A memorial against illegal waste disposal?
Maybe a work of art or just a joke after a night of drinking?
And why was it gone again by the end of the week?
Only those who tied the object with a rope to the tree near a busy road between Horb and Freudenstadt can say with certainty.
The urinal was discovered three weeks ago by local researchers Heinrich Raible and Joachim Lipp.
Raible doesn't rule out that it was originally just going to be dumped in the parking lot.
“The place is known as a garbage dump, a lot is dumped illegally there,” he said when asked.
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The parking lot is also often used as a pee spot, says Joachim Lipp: The spot is “a Mecca for passing wild peepers”, so the location for the alleged art installation was well chosen.
Possibly, so the assumption, the urinal is intended as a memorial to motorists who stop here to relieve themselves.
Raible photographed the curious object and made it a local celebrity.
Newspapers and Südwestrundfunk reported that the urinal was also a topic in letters to the editor.
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