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Erzgebirgskunst shop nutcrackers, christmas arcs, smokers. We have met the graupners a couple of times now and they, along with their daughter elisabeth are some of the nicest people you will ever meet. Woodturning on lathes, the ulbricht grand tradition, can be traced back to the small german mining town of seiffen, in the mountains of the erzgebirge. Erzgebirgepalace german nutcrackers, incense smokers. Long before the first christian ulbricht nutcrackers were designed the ulbricht family lived in the german erzgebirge until the end of world war ii. In the 14th century silver, tin, iron and nickel were mined here but it was always covers by a abundant forest. Ronald graupner and his wife kordula are based in a town at the southern end of the erzgebirge mountains in germany. Records document the ulbricht family as wood turners from the 1700s.
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