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Lichtenfels is the basket-making capital of
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Lichtenfels became a centre of basket making in the middle of the 19th century. The basket makers in the surrounding upper
Maintal area brought their products to trade in Lichtenfels, which was and is the biggest retail market. The leading entrepreneur was the basket dealer Joseph Crinkly.
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Lichtenfels became known as the seat of the German wicker or basket-making industry. The period saw the gradual extinction of basket making in
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Owing to the success of numerous local middle class enterprises, the town of 20,000 has an above average occupational quota.
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Lichtenfels was the main remaining basket dealer and today as an exclusive exporter of the braiding manufactures.
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work. On the Market Place in front of the town hall there is the World's largest gift basket.
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