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After scorn and ridicule: "Sweden's ugliest Christmas tree" ends up in the landfill

2022-11-30T14:39:57.792Z


After scorn and ridicule: "Sweden's ugliest Christmas tree" ends up in the landfill Created: 11/30/2022 3:23 p.m By: Florian Naumann “Sweden's ugliest Christmas tree” – the small town of Mjölby has since replaced the tree. © Biograf Saga Mjölby Svenska Bio/fkn "Better no tree than this one!" An emergency Christmas tree in Sweden becomes a political issue - and has to go. Germany also likes to


After scorn and ridicule: "Sweden's ugliest Christmas tree" ends up in the landfill

Created: 11/30/2022 3:23 p.m

By: Florian Naumann

“Sweden's ugliest Christmas tree” – the small town of Mjölby has since replaced the tree.

© Biograf Saga Mjölby Svenska Bio/fkn

"Better no tree than this one!" An emergency Christmas tree in Sweden becomes a political issue - and has to go.

Germany also likes to debate about the festival wood.

Mjölby/Frankfurt am Main – It is doubtful that the big appearance as a Christmas tree on the market square is actually the highlight of a coniferous life.

After all, it inevitably marks the end of the life cycle.

Either way, tradition is tradition.

Festively decorated and as an eye-catcher, fir or spruce also warm the hearts of observers.

The fate of this year's Christmas tree in the small town of Mjölby in eastern Sweden is rather heartbreaking: erected at short notice to replace a damaged one, a storm of scorn and ridicule broke out over the tree and those who put it up.

A little later, the authorities had the fir fell again.

"She didn't quite live up to expectations," was the verdict - almost as dry as a Christmas tree after New Year's Day.

Last stop after only a few days of dubious fame: the landfill.

Christmas tree disaster: small town saws down "Sweden's ugliest fir tree" again

The unfortunate fate of the Christmas tree even made it into the coverage of the public TV broadcaster SVT.

Shortly after the fir tree was erected, a camera team questioned passers-by.

"It should have branches - and a different color," wondered an older man in front of the SVT microphone: "That looks more like a clear cut!"

The reactions on social media were hardly more positive.

"Mjölby definitely has Sweden's ugliest fir tree," joked one Facebook user.

"One more devil, he doesn't have much zest for life anymore," was another verdict.

"You could almost think he caught the bark beetle," quipped a local farmer on Twitter.

SVT summed up that the fir tree failed as "disgustingly ugly": no tree was better than this one, they said.

However, there was also a rather unfortunate history, as Mjölby's park and garden manager Ida Andersson explained to the broadcaster.

The tree that was actually planned did not survive being felled, but "broke".

"We took the best we could get at such short notice, but we realize that it doesn't meet the standard and will therefore swap again."

Christmas tree misery also in Germany: "This is what forest death looks like!"

No sooner said than done: just a few days after the tree premiere, workers came and sawed down “Sweden's ugliest fir tree” again.

Around noon on November 28, Mjölby reported execution: The tree had been taken away and, quote, thrown into the municipal landfill.

Anyone who thinks that Sweden, which is rich in conifers, has a particularly critical relationship with Christmas trees, is wrong.

For example, Frankfurt am Main has been plagued by a woody problem for years.

There the Christmas trees are even given names before the famous Roman.

That doesn't protect you from ridicule.

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It looks so rancid, dude!

Passers-by were rather critical of “Gretel”, Frankfurt’s 2021 Christmas tree.

In 2021, for example, "Gretel" got rid of her fat shortly after it was set up.

"It looks so rancid, old man," said the crowd of onlookers, as

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noted - or also: "This is what forest dying looks like!" In 2020, according to

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, "Bertl" had visibly suffered when setting up.

At the time, Christmas market manager Kurt Stroscher felt the need to make a friendly but meaningful clarification: The tree that was specially transported from Schladming in Austria had “a wonderful chocolate side”, emphasized Stroscher.

The reverse conclusion is obvious.

Nevertheless: Mjölby's nameless fir tree might have wished for so much goodwill from qualified sources.

Especially since some passers-by pointed out another problem after setting it up: "A little more lighting" couldn't have hurt, said a young woman to SVT.

"But of course I understand that we have to save electricity this year." There is a bit of global politics behind every Christmas tree.

Just behind those with short careers.

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Source: merkur

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