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2. Nutcracker doll - Wikipedia

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   Nutcracker dolls originate from late-17th-century Germany, particularly the Ore Mountains (German: Erzgebirge) region. [1] One origin story attributes the creation of the first nutcracker doll to a craftsman from Seiffen. [2] They were often given as gifts, and at some point they became associated with Christmas season.

3. Ore Mountain folk art - Wikipedia

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   Ore Mountain Toy Museum in Seiffen Exhibits in the Nutcracker Museum in Neuhausen. Ore Mountain folk art (German: Erzgebirgische Volkskunst) is a well-known form of highly artistic wood carving from East Germany. It encompasses the diverse forms of expression of the creative work beyond the classical or the modern arts, and in particular the ...

4. List of Christmas and winter gift-bringers - Wikipedia

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   Christmas gift-bringers in Europe. This is a list of Christmas and winter gift-bringer figures from around the world. The history of mythical or folkloric gift-bringing figures who appear in winter, often at or around the Christmas period, is complex, and in many countries the gift-bringer – and the gift-bringer's date of arrival – has changed over time as native customs have been ...

5. This Is What Kids Leave for Santa on Christmas Eve Around the ...

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   Get in the holiday spirit with traditional German Christmas foods. Denmark. Danish tots gift Santa with a filling bowl of rice pudding, or risengrod. According to legend, there may be trouble if ...

6. Wooden toymaking in the Ore Mountains - Wikipedia

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   Production is concentrated today in the toymaking village of Seiffen and its surrounding area in the middle of the so-called "German Christmas Land" as the Ore Mountains are called. A great variety of products has developed, but they are clearly associated with the Ore Mountains and go by the concept of Ore Mountain folk art .

7. There's a Magical German Holiday Market in the Midwest US

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   Related: How to Host a Traditional German Christmas Dinner. Next, Rosenfeld leads me to a booth offering Kartoffelspieß, fried potatoes spiraled on a stick, lightly salted and golden crisp ...