Today’s popular Google Doodle Video game is a throwback to 2018 and celebrates garden gnomes.
When the Doodle was very first published, on June 10, 2018, Google stated: “Look amongst the greenery of Germany’s lavish gardens and you might find a red-capped gartenzwerg, or garden gnome. Today’s Doodle– just in time for Garden Day in Germany– celebrates these small statues for their huge role in German history.”
The video game starts with a brief history lesson about garden gnomes and their origin. While gnome figures first appeared in 13 th-century Anatolia and re-emerged in 16 th-century Italy, garden gnomes were initially made in 19 th-century Germany.
In Thuringia, craftsmen