simply with just a few minutes notice. well it's already an old tradition in north america of course where people love to brighten their homes for the festive season with all manner of lights and sparkling christmas decorations and meanwhile here in germany the custom has also caught on but one house in particular in color in the state of lower saxony has shown its way to fame as the biggest christmas light extravaganza in the country and so we visited roll folks to see how and why he does it well i thought. oh yeah. it's not just tiny tots whose eyes are all aglow when big and small gather on the first weekend of the advent season to watch them lights go on. five hundred thirty thousand of them in germany's biggest christmas light display

on a private house and that's a record. was for a great year just overwhelmed by all the lights as it could no way i could do that really through a d.v.d. i have problems just getting one string of lights up it's fantastic like. the man who attracts christmas members to column lower saxony every year is called for. the pensioner who loves his hobby. volleyball moved we are always just jump for joy when it all comes together i it's that week of happiness especially when it gives people joy and they go oh well i think that's the best part of it the worst thing that can happen is if it starts raining when a film made a film with you then i flip the switch on the remote it may go to give birth to view or then of course the people all all go. luckily that rarely happens months of work have gone into the extraordinary christmas display.

close wife no mean supports his passion for christmas lights. or she's in charge of the decorations in the house she decides how it gets done their work and all of. these if this passion gives him a lots of energy and happiness. well for designs every aspect of his christmas night extravaganza himself it all started in one thousand nine hundred nine when the couple visited their son in the united states houses all around were covered with lights. and whole never seen anything like it in every aisle is always more beautiful than the last at the front yards had moving reindeer and santa claus is on the moon we said let's do this at all i'm just for us. every year it got to be a little more but she never thought it could take on these dimensions. the

yuletide spectacle now involves a massive amount of effort and expense to have it ready in time the seventy year old retiree has to begin stringing the four point three kilometers of cords in the summer. with this winter predicted to be a wet one he's had a special high voltage line put in. the movie by a blow dryer at least once a week with the open sky now he doesn't have any other hobby he's put his heart in as it se and i let him know. some people never had a childhood so they have to make up for it some time. he estimates that he spent around one hundred fifty thousand euros on the decorations so far the folks have to pay some three thousand. just for the extra electricity they use in december the little private christmas market helps to pay for it all that the elite the ones the xian the president needs it i hope this year we'll see even more shining faces

that's the whole point of doing this does is in doubt that. i had to give in. they have up to five hundred spectators every weekend his wife sells mulled wine and sausages while both checks the lights to make sure they're all working and he keeps coming up with new ideas that come as long as my wife joins in i just can't stop. there lag and we'll keep doing this as long as we're able we really enjoy it yeah it's not just to make me happy but above all the people who come later on you produce. a couple have been married for forty two years now for seventeen of them they've been lighting up the holiday season. and all that brilliant note that's all for this edition of our highlights so until we meet again all the best from us here in berlin and happy holidays.

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