One of Europe's last traditional manufacturers of garden gnomes is struggli...
GRAEFENRODA, Germany - One of Europe’s last traditional manufacturers of garden gnomes is struggling to find a successor for the 145-year old business and may be forced to close its doors when its owner retires.
“Here, garden gnomes were, I won’t say invented, but brought to life, a symbol of hard work from the mine,” said Reinhard Griebel, owner of the firm in the village of Graefenroda, which describes itself as the birthplace of the garden gnome. “Now there are three of us and that is 28 years after this time,” Griebel told Reuters Television, outlining three options for the future.
Graefenroda is located in the hilly, wooded state of Thuringia which, like much of the former East, has suffered an exodus of young people since German reunification. Its population fell to 3,232 in 2015, down from 4,313 in 1989.
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