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2. 15 Expensive Nutcrackers That Put Our Basic Ones to Shame - AOL

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   Extra-Large German Drummer Nutcracker. ... This 12-foot, hand-painted nutcracker is the real deal, made out of fiberglass and influenced by authentic Bavarian nutcrackers. When it’s shipped, it ...

3. Nutcracker doll - Wikipedia

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   Nutcracker dolls, also known as Christmas nutcrackers, are decorative nutcracker figurines most commonly made to resemble a toy soldier. In German tradition, the dolls are symbols of good luck, frightening away malevolent spirits.

4. Käthe Wohlfahrt - Wikipedia

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   Käthe-Wohlfahrt (German pronunciation: [ˌkɛːtə ˈvoːlfaːɐ̯t]) is a German company that sells Christmas decorations and articles. Its head office is in Rothenburg ob der Tauber in Bavaria. According to the tourism site for the state of Bavaria, "the unique Christmas store with more than 30,000 traditional German Christmas decorations ...

5. German bratwurst booyah, giant nutcrackers and Krampus ... - AOL

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   More than 40,000 people visited On Broadway Inc.'s German-style holiday street market last year. It returns Friday with all kinds of festive new fun.

6. Striezelmarkt - Wikipedia

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   Nutcrackers; The type of nutcracker traditionally sold at the Striezelmarkt, carved and painted with a red coat like a soldier, probably became popular world-wide thanks to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and related ballets. The first wood turner to carve the ornaments in this form, Wilhelm Friedrich Füchtner from the Ore Mountains, is said to ...

7. How Nutcrackers Became a Classic Symbol of Christmas

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   Nutcracker dolls can trace their little wooden development back to the Ore Mountains of Germany in the late 17th century. Most often depicted as toy soldiers, they became gifts and symbols of good ...

8. Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum - Wikipedia

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   Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum is a museum dedicated to nutcrackers and nutcracking devices, located in Leavenworth, Washington. Founded by Arlene Wagner and her husband George in 1995, the museum housed over 7,000 nutcrackers in 2020, and over 9,000 in 2023. Wagner taught multiple productions of The Nutcracker and became enamored with ...

9. Christmas market - Wikipedia

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   Christmas market in Merano, Italy. The first traces of Christmas markets in the German-speaking part of Europe and in many parts of the former Holy Roman Empire go back to late medieval sales fairs and—often one-day—markets, which gave citizens the opportunity to stock up on meat and winter necessities at the beginning of the cold season. [10]