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Neuhausen/Erzgeb. (lit. ''Neuhausen/Ore Mountains'') is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It consists of Neuhausen proper and the ''Ortsteile'' (divisions) Dittersbach, Frauenbach, Heidelbach, Cämmerswalde, Rauschenbach, Neuwernsdorf and Deutschgeorgenthal.Official website
accessed 12 October 2021. Neuhausen hosts the first nutcracker museum in Europe, which houses more than 5,000 examples, the largest collection of nutcrackers in the world and is also known as a location for winter sports.
The Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains (''Glashüttenmuseum des Erzgebirges'') is located in the old socage vault of
accessed 12 October 2021. Neuhausen hosts the first nutcracker museum in Europe, which houses more than 5,000 examples, the largest collection of nutcrackers in the world and is also known as a location for winter sports.
Culture and sights
Museums
Europe's first nutcracker museum
World renown is the first and largest nutcracker museum in Europe with around 5,000 exhibits from 30 countries (as at April 2009).Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains
The Glassworks Museum of the Ore Mountains (''Glashüttenmuseum des Erzgebirges'') is located in the old socage vault of Purschenstein Castle
Purschenstein Castle (german: Schloss Purschenstein) in Neuhausen/Erzgeb. in East Germany was built in the late 12th century, around 1200, probably by Boresch I (Borso). The toll and escort castle protected a salt road running from Central Germ ...
and includes a replica glassworks from the time of Georgius Agricola, a workshop and other documents and tools associated with Ore Mountain glassmaking as well as the history of Neuhausen and Purschenstein.
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