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Clive Hicks mentions only one
Green Man in Schwäbisch Gmünd. So I said to my wife MeiMei, maybe we skip SG. No, she
said, go there, you never know. After an arduous trip we finally stood eye to eye with the
biggest church, the Münster. Immediately, I sensed the presence of Green Men (I really
get a nose for them, after all, they are my relatives....). They all appeared to be on the
outside of the church. It was really one surprise after the other. Some very old, very
characteristic, others lovingly restored. So, I embraced my wife for having brought me to
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Within
two minutes walk we then arrived at the Johanneskirche. She originates from the early 13th
century. First we went to the entrance side, and, within seconds I saw the whole panorama
evolving in front of me: Green Men everywhere! Again some VERY old while others were
nicely restored. The latter appeared to have a special style, almost "modern",
say Jugendstil. Of course the original images were as old as the others, incredible,
really. The more we got into it, the more Green Men "showed up". Along the
streetside of the church there were dozens, maybe around fifty at least. An entire church
celebrating the Green Men, that I had only seen in Frankenberg. I wouldn't be surprised
that the Johanneskirche has a direct link with the crusaders e.g. the Templars, thus
explaining the abundance of the Green Man images - Son of the Great Mother, the latter
hidden as Cosmic Yoni's..... everywhere in the church - and being the center of worship of
the knights*.
* Again, in the official
booklet of the church NO ANY word was spent about Green Men, despite the fifty or so
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