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industry, or its widespread decline in the 19th century, encouraged the emergence of supplementary and replacement income, depending on local conditions. The motifs of this Ore
Mountain wood art have a close connection to mining and the working and living environment of the miners, thus the logo of the craftsmen is a miner on a
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In these times, where mining declined and became even extinct, the search for additional jobs or replacement income became more important. Physiographic circumstances left little scope for agricultural work. Thus it seemed natural to intensify woodworking. Therefore, new branches of wood processing
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The development of this branch can not only be seen in the geographical distribution of products in "Ore
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and covered large parts of the mountains in the following centuries, was constrained to the use of pitwood. Wood was also the most important material for the construction of buildings and for the production of everyday objects (dishware, furniture, tools etc.). For the 15th and 16th century, the
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produced in China but also sold these articles cheaply in a store in
Seiffen. Apparently, his customers could not determine significant differences between the articles sold by the above named salesman and original products manufactured by craftsmen in Seiffen. This statement though fuels the
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Christmas Pyramid which costs more than €10,000. It is controversial whether the products manufactured in the Ore Mountains area can still be marked as "handcrafted" even though more and more work steps in the production are carried out by machines.
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creations, which have little to do with products of the early days, are being developed. One of those products is an extremely slim, dark-skinned figure of an angel. In the meantime, the trend is towards high-priced products. For example: a shop in
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suspicion that these articles were forbidden counterfeits which were primarily made for unsuspecting customers to mistake them for products which were actually manufactured in the Ore
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electoral wood regulations for the area around
Lauterstein (1560) and the Purschenstein wood ruling (1588) verified the activities of woodworkers who made wooden vessels and tools. In another village,
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The above-named salesman was unable to remain permanently active in
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is the first nutcracker museum in Europe, which houses more than 5,000 examples, the largest collection of nutcrackers in the world.
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