Story By: Lee Bullen, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency:  Newsflash

A giant wooden penis that stood atop a German mountain ridge for four years before knocked into the valley by Alpine cows has been returned to its former scenic spot.

The two-metre (6.6-foot) tall wooden penis, listed by Google Maps as a ‘cultural monument’, stood on a ridge on the 1,738-metre (5,702-foot) high Grunten Mountain in the Allgau mountain range in the German state of Bavaria.

The monument graced the ridge for four years and the phallic statue’s absence saddened many hikers and netizens launched an online campaign for its return.

Norbert Zeberle, former manager of the nearby Gruintenhutte lodge, said the monument was probably knocked off the ridge by cows and toppled down the mountain.

However, the giant wooden penis has mysteriously returned to its former home and Zeberle is unsure how.

It is suspected that a group of youngsters from Rettenberg pulled the huge penis up the mountain on a sledge.

Zeberle said: “It is nice when you can laugh about something like this in times of COVID-19.”

The local authorities are relaxed about the phallic monument as it sits on private property and is not directly on the hiking trail.

Nobody has even been harmed climbing it for snaps and very few hikers have complained about it, according to local media.

For now, the ‘cultural monument’ will remain sitting pretty on Grunten Mountain’s now-famous ledge.

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