Hamburg Love lock bridge

Hamburg ‘Love lock’ bridge

The Hamburg love lock bridge in Jungfersteig is an interesting piece of tradition for tourists’ visits. According to local stories, lovers travel here, get a padlock with their names inscribed on it, lock the padlock at the bridge rails as a sign of their engagement and throw the key into the riverbed where it can never be found! It is believed that this ritual makes their love last forever. Germany has this “Love Lock” bridges in other parts of the Republic.

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Hamburg ‘Love lock’ bridges

The Hamburg love lock bridge in Jungfersteig is an interesting piece of tradition for tourists’ visits. According to local stories, lovers travel here, get a padlock with their names inscribed on it, lock the padlock at the bridge rails as a sign of their engagement and throw the key into the riverbed where it can never be found! It is believed that this ritual makes their love last forever. Germany has this “Love Lock” bridges in other parts of the Republic.

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Hello @Aishat1 ,

Thank you for this post about my birth town :wink:. Yes, the love looks get quite popular.

Do you know the German song: Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht, aber unsere Liebe nicht… :wink:

I think the post is twice on connect… Maybe @LudwigGermany can merge the posts?

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Thank you, TorM

I do not know the song but I will ask my friends here to teach me :blush:

Yes, the post was published twice due a problem with my network at the time of publishing. I did try to delete one but couldn’t. Thank you!