Overview
- In Sömmerda, Thuringia, crews felled a 16‑metre spruce and loaded it onto a low‑loader for the Brandenburg Gate, with THW set to raise it on arrival.
- Winter weather slowed the low‑loader’s journey, pushing the Brandenburg Gate installation into the evening.
- Decorators plan about 14,000 LED lights and hundreds of baubles for the Brandenburg Gate tree, with the first Advent switch‑on scheduled for around 16:00.
- A roughly 36‑metre, eight‑ton Harz spruce—naturally seeded about 80 years ago—was cut near the Kuttelbacher Teich, with foresters severing the trunk about ten metres up because only the upper section fit display standards, and it is due in Berlin on Tuesday morning.
- After a separate Abgeordnetenhaus tree broke during transport, officials removed a reattached top for safety while keeping a Thursday lighting goal.