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Heimenkirch: Wooden penis is on the roundabout

2021-04-23T22:38:30.179Z


Huge penis carvings are evidently trendy in Bavaria. A wooden phallus has appeared in another municipality in the Allgäu. The mayor thinks the statue suits his community.


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Grünten: Probably the most famous wooden penis was perhaps the model for Heimenkirch's wooden penis (archive image)

Photo: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand / dpa

There was one at Grünten, also in Taldorf near Ravensburg - and now there is one in Heimenkirch, Bavaria, too: In the Allgäu, a large wooden penis has appeared again, this time in the middle of a roundabout.

He does not know who is behind the "work of art", said the mayor of Heimenkirch, Markus Reichart (Greens), on Friday.

"But that fits: We are a strong and potent church - and now is the time for spring fever."

First, the "Allgäuer Zeitung" reported on the sculpture.

He refused to have the penis removed, said Reichart.

It is unclear whether the statue is allowed to remain standing, at least from the authorities.

Such phallic sculptures appear again and again in the region around the neighboring Allgäu.

At the beginning of January, a similar wooden penis was set up near Ebratshofen in the Bavarian district of Lindau.

Again, it is not known by whom.

The most famous sculpture of this kind is on the 1738 meter high Grünten in the Allgäu Alps in Bavaria.

Most recently, this wooden penis had even attracted international attention when it first fell over within a few weeks, then was straightened up again and finally disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

The wooden penis was later replaced, then sawn and reassembled by strangers.

The artist behind the work is also unknown here.

ptz / dpa

Source: spiegel

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