Seiffen is a town in the district of Erzgebirgskreis in the central south of Saxony in Germany. Seiffen nestles in the heart of the Ore Mountains, which...

attributes the creation of the first nutcracker doll to a craftsman from Seiffen. They were often given as gifts, and at some point they became associated...

Ore Mountain Toy Museum, Seiffen The Ore Mountain Toy Museum in Seiffen (German: Erzgebirgische Spielzeugmuseum Seiffen) is an internationally known museum...

manufacture of Ore Mountain folk art lies in the region around the village of Seiffen, which is also known as the Toy Corner (Spielzeugwinkel). Here most of...

arch—usually with the traditional designs or at least local scenes. The town of Seiffen is particularly noted for its production of schwibbogen in its craft shops...

featuring a nutcracker as a prominent character. Subsequently, in the 1870s, Seiffen in the Ore Mountains began producing turned nutcrackers, which have since...

Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India (2023) Rueil-Malmaison, France (2023) Seiffen, Saxony, Germany (2023) Xiangyang, Hubei, China (2012–2024) Howell Jr....

A Wendt & Kühn shop in Seiffen...

carvings come from Sonneberg in Thuringia (also a center of dollmaking) and Seiffen, as part of the industry of wooden toymaking in the Ore Mountains. Wood-carving...

Grains of tin (Zinnkörner or Graupen) were obtained at that time in the Seiffen mining area and gave the Bohemian mining town of Graupen (Czech Krupka)...