Dunja

Quince, the fruit of Aphrodite, plays an important role in Greek mythology. As the fruit of the goddess of love, the yellow fruit was considered a symbol of love, happiness and fertility and was considered sacred.

In the past, the quince was also very important for newly married couples, it is said that it creates love and desire and joy in childbearing. Thus, the Athenian law decreed that the young bride had to consume a quince on the threshold of the bridal chamber, in the belief that she would have as many children as there were seeds in the quince.

The owner about the quince:

This tree has been in our backyard for as long as I can remember. My grandmother loved it. We had 100’s of jars of quince jelly. We kids loved to climb it.

But the fondest memory was the smell of the quince whenever Grandma had a bowl of the sweet fruit on the table in the living room in November and the fragrance drifted through the house.

Even when then my children were out of the house, studying or traveling, they always asked, “”Do you have a jar of quince jelly to take along?””

When it became very old and feeble and we had to stabilize it, no one wanted get rid of it. The remaining branches were still producing fruit. On a beautiful autumn day it took its leave without our help. It simply crashed down.

Love, Luck, Fertility

WoodQuincePlace of discoveryGrevenbroich