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During the Advent season, the house of the Jeromin family in Rinteln, Lower Saxony, shines as a colourful Christmas world. This year, they set a new world record: a total of 555 Christmas trees decorate their homes – plus 108,000 Christmas tree baubles ... well: ambience.
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Susanne and Thomas Jeromin, she a trained geriatric nurse, he a cook, surrounded by Christmas trees in the living room of their house: Thomas Jeromin's passion for collecting began twelve years ago, and he has since infected his wife with it. "After the morning shift, we decorate from 57 p.m. until the evening and also through the weekends."
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These Star Wars-themed Christmas trees are made of plastic, just like all 555 trees in the house.
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The Record Institute for Germany (RID) visited the couple on Thursday to recognise the glowing Christmas collection as a new world record.
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Two years ago, there were 444 trees. "We have expanded, and there are now 89 trees in the new room alone," says 56-year-old collector Jeromin.
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Merry Christmas, everywhere: The good news in this room is: "Merry Christmas".
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There are even trees in the bathroom: the two Christmas fans also design some of the fir trees thematically, for example with stuffed animals or rubber duckies.
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The Christmas wonderland in the Weser Uplands attracts many visitors during the Advent season. "We've even had guests from Switzerland who stopped by on their way north," says Susanne Jeromin.
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Guest rooms: What may seem like sensory overload to visitors is normality for the Jeromins. In the bedroom, however, they say, the flashing and glittering lights stay off at night.
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In the living room of the Christmas-loving family, the first packages are already waiting under one of the 555 trees.
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The hallway in the Jeromins' house also shines in all its Christmas splendor. The fact that there is not much room left for anything else doesn't seem to bother the family; nor are the cost of electricity.
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"In the meantime, we have completely switched to LEDs," says collector Jeromin. According to her, the additional costs for electricity are only about 89 euros per season.
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It takes time for the place to shine: In the meantime, the couple is starting to decorate for Christmas in June.
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On Epiphany, i.e. on 6 January, the decorations take place again. Then the plastic fir trees disappear into the attic for a few months.
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