Neuhausen/Erzgeb. (lit. ''Neuhausen/Ore Mountains'') is a municipality in the district of

Mittelsachsen Mittelsachsen (, ) is a district ('' Kreis'') in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. History The district was established by merging the former districts of Döbeln, Freiberg and Mittweida as part of the district reform of August 2008. Geog ...

, in

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. It consists of Neuhausen proper and the ''Ortsteile'' (divisions) Dittersbach, Frauenbach, Heidelbach,

Cämmerswalde The village of Cämmerswalde in the municipality of Neuhausen/Erzgeb., Neuhausen/Erzgeb is in the south of the Saxon district of Landkreis Mittelsachsen, Mittelsachsen in eastern Germany. The state-recognised spa resort with its 800-year-old histo ...

, Rauschenbach,

Neuwernsdorf Neuwernsdorf is a village in the municipality of Neuhausen/Erzgeb. in the extreme south of the Saxon district of Landkreis Mittelsachsen, Mittelsachsen, immediately next to the Czech border by Český Jiřetín and the Rauschenbach Dam. Litera ...

and Deutschgeorgenthal.Official website
accessed 12 October 2021. Neuhausen hosts the first

nutcracker A nutcracker is a tool designed to open nuts by cracking their shells. There are many designs, including levers, screws, and ratchets. The lever version is also used for cracking lobster and crab shells. A decorative version, a nutcracker doll ...

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 Socage () was one of the feudal duties and land tenure forms in the English feudal system. It eventually evolved into the freehold tenure called "free and common socage", which did not involve feudal duties. Farmers held land in exchange for ...

vault of Purschenstein Castle and includes a replica

glassworks Glass production involves two main methods – the float glass process that produces sheet glass, and glassblowing that produces bottles and other containers. It has been done in a variety of ways during the history of glass. Glass container p ...

from the time of

Georgius Agricola Georgius Agricola (; born Georg Bauer; 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555) was a German Humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist. Born in the small town of Glauchau, in the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, he was b ...

, a workshop and other documents and tools associated with Ore Mountain glassmaking as well as the history of Neuhausen and Purschenstein.

References

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