KNOX is the trade mark of the oldest incense manufacturers in

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. It is based in the little village of Mohorn-Grund in the borough of

Wilsdruff Wilsdruff () is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, in Saxony, Germany, with 14,444 inhabitants (2020). It is situated 14 km west of Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) ...

and run by the firm of Hermann Zwetz, Chemist's. In 1865 the chemist, whose name the firm now bears, sold the incense candles, known as '' Räucherkerzchen'' as a remedy for

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and

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. Only later were the little candles used for

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festivities. Today about 50

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of incense products are manufactured annually in 30

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varieties in the factory premises that were newly built in 1997. The company, which continued in private hands even in

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times, also has a small museum in which there is much to discover about incense products, especially from Saxony, but also from the rest of the world. They are used especially in the wooden toy figures known as '' Räuchermänner''.

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