Shoe tossing
As a shoe tree usually behängter with old shoe pairs tree is called.
Origin
The origin of shoe trees can not be determined historically. Often shoe trees arise as a result of an action in which a person throws a pair of old shoes that were tied together at the laces in the branches of a tree. Animated thereby find mostly other people, which in turn add to the same fashion shoes. Often combined with this action the desire to individual concerns, along with the shoes to throw on its own. Some of the shoes are labeled for this purpose also with wishes or greetings.
Shoe trees are cultural anthropology a more recent phenomenon, the custom of trees and bushes covered with fabrics or clothing to decorate, but has long since spread worldwide. In Ireland and Scotland are known, for example, the "rag trees", draped with fabric strip trees near sources ( Clootie well), which have healing powers attributed to a custom which probably dates back to pre-Christian times. Also from the Middle East are those trees known.
Shoe trees worldwide
Most shoe trees there are in the U.S., more than 70 have been documented there. The "shoe trees" are known there since the early 90s and in particular to find in remote country roads. Canada also emerged single shoe trees. In England, the Shoe Tree Armstrong Park in Newcastle upon Tyne is known.
A well-stocked tree is located in Austria, Kapfenberg next to a fun park for skaters (47 ° 27 ' 24 " N, 15 ° 19' 17 " O47.45674515.321472 ).
Shoe trees in Germany
A well-known example of a shoe tree is located in Berlin on the Landwehr canal in Kreuzberg on Fraenkelufer, even in Moabit ( corner Birken-/Putlitzstraße ) and in Steglitz (corner of Bismark Street / Steglitzer dam ) is a shoe tree to be seen. Additional copies can be found in Munich ( in the student town beside house 14, and near the Biedersteiner student residence at the English Garden ) in Peine near the colony steel village, in Hilwartshausen ( Hann Munden ) on the B 80 and at Bad Tolz in the uplands on the road towards Ellbach, also in Constance, in Tittling at the skate park, in Düren at the skate park opposite the fire station in Reutlingen in Bismarck Street 74 and in the Eifel on the B 421 in Hont home where up to 1991 soldiers stationed U.S. forces her boots left behind on a tree in their adoption.
As part of the Schleswig-Holstein State Garden Show 2008, a shoe tree was built by Ehler Schumann, which is, however, concerned an artificial object to which donated and planted with flowers shoes were hung.
Location of some shoe trees in Germany:
Shoe trees in Literature and Film
The phenomenon of the shoe tree has now found its way into popular culture. So wearing an award winning short film directed by Ian Cottage from 1993 titled "The Shoe Tree ," inspired by the shoe tree in Newcastle upon Tyne. In the second season of the television series Medium, the 10th episode is the German title "Under the Shoe Tree " (English original "Still Life" ). A shoe tree also plays a central role in the book The Taxi Driver 's Daughter ( 2003) by Julia Darling.