Cologne Bridge Locks of Love in Germany Bangla TikTok
Channel: Gentlemen’s Circle
Date: 2021-07-10

Cologne's Love Locks Bridge - as part of the travel series by GeoBeats.
 
If you love someone, lock it and let the key go... down into the river below.

As the phenomenon at The Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne, Germany illustrates - the romantic notion is to grab a padlock, write your and your lover's name on it, latch and lock it onto a landmark and then throw away the key. This is the new way for a couple to say, "We are forever committed to one another."

Although the "padlocks of love" are new to the bridge in Cologne, Germany, the fresh tradition has, in fact, been around since the early 2000s, with the symbolic locks reaching a canal in Moscow, to South Korea's Namsan Tower. 

Unfortunately, in some places where the love locks have appeared, like the Ponte Vecchio Bridge in Florence, Italy, the city had ordered the locks to be removed for they believed the locks were visually unappealing and caused damage to the material they were hanging on. And removed they were.

But the lovebirds in Cologne had a little more luck with their padlocks. Although the city had ordered that the locks be removed, they were overruled with empathy when they learned that so many of the citizens were in favor of the locks for what they represented.

So, for all you lovers out there, go ahead and get yourselves a love padlock. But, please, don't completely disregard the prior traditional ways just yet: Like, putting your initials in a tree, getting commitment rings, or, the grandest of them all, getting married.