Henry und Jochen

Henry und Jochen
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My new garden friends :-)

Here's something about garden gnomes:

(From the German magazine Bild der Frau:)
The history of the garden gnomes began about 6000 years ago in the Turkish Kapadokia. The miners carried clay gnomes with them as good-luck charms. The gnomes were supposed to protect them from the kobolds. The gnomes were brought to Germany in the 15th century as decorations for the Barock gardens. The garden gnomes gained their fame around 1880, when Philipp Griebel from Tueringen made the first garden gnome in its modern form. They have been produced and exported world wide from Tueringen ever since. Since the 1990s there are also female garden gnomes.