I was on a guided tour of the historical South German village of Villingen-Schwenningen last week when I learned that the local town hero was a man named Romäus, their version of Paul Bunyan. His image is painted on one of the tower gates of the village wall:
The story goes that he travelled to the neighboring village of Rottweil, stole the massive, multi-ton doors to their village, and walked all the way back to Villingen, carrying the doors with him, no less!
As a tribute to the many friendly townpeople I met, I used Microsoft Lens to unstretch him!
According to Wikipedia, just like Paul Bunyan there are many stories, but here’s the one on the wall:
