The annual rant about the Christmas tree in front of the Vienna City Hall already seems to be a tradition. The spruce is not in particularly good shape this year either. Bare spots and dry branches are now to be saved by Beauty Docs, 1000 LED lights are to beautify the tree. Nevertheless, our readers insisted on making a few nasty jokes about it. We have put together a best-of for you here!
The fact that the 130-year-old spruce from Burgenland symbolizes the bad relationship between Governor Hans Peter Doskozil and Vienna’s Mayor Michael Ludwig was also cynically taken up by our readers. “That is the revenge for Burgenland jokes”, writes helpful-bug65 and also comprie and anderson22 you can’t avoid making a comparison between the Christmas tree and the city of Vienna.
Of course, the environment and sustainability are also very important to our readers, which is why there were some suggestions on this too. “It could have left the one from the previous year there,” says punk.tum ironic. Ignaz2 is in favor of taking a maypole and embellishing it, “that’s not much more work.”
From “weeping spruce” to “krautstaudn”, the Christmas tree definitely had to put up with a lot from the “Krone” community. Few nice words have been said about the spruce, so we are all the more excited to see what the tree will look like after the beauty treatment.
What do you think of this year’s Christmas tree on Vienna’s Rathausplatz? Can the “weeping spruce” be saved by a beauty treatment using LED lights? We look forward to your comments!