THE EASTER TREE WITH 10000 PAINTED EGGS-by Marina de Miranda

THE EASTER TREE WITH 10.000 PAINTED EGGS.

In his childhood (around 1945) Wolker Kraft saw a beautiful Easter decorated tree in his home town, so he wanted a tree like this. These trees are called “Eierbaum”, “Osterbaum” or “Ostereierbaum” in German, meaning that is decorated with eggs at Easter.

…and then, in 1965, it happened. Wolker Kraft that was happily married and had children, realized his dream of having his own Eierbaum. He decorated a small apple tree in his garden with 18 colorful Easter eggs (that were made of plastic) for his children.

But soon, Wolker realized that the tree begun to grow-fast so he started to use and paint the eggs that they needed to bake cakes. Kraft’s children grew and started to paint but when they went off their house the first grandchildren came and decorated the tree again.

Christa Kraft started to crochet eggs in different colors and Kraft’s daughter, Gabriela Rumrich, that is the painter in the family, drew artistic patterns with silver and gold colors.

To decorate the Eierbaum initially took only one day. In 2002 they decorated the tree in a week and in 2014 they spent more than two weeks decorating the tree with 10.000 eggs.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall visitors started to come and one of them reported it to the local press so they started to have visitors from all over the world.

Wolker probably never thought that his dream was going to come true. The best reward for all the work are the smiles of the children and he and his family are so proud that so many people visit the Eierbaum year after year.