Lights Turk
The light Turk is a doll of lights that has been widespread in the Ore Mountains since the middle of the 19th century , and was especially widespread during the Christmas season alongside the light-bearing angels and miners . Around 1800, the Turkish figure came to the Ore Mountains as a folk art Christmas motif , after it was previously known as a toy in Bavaria , Franconia , Thuringia and Saxony .
The Turkish motif can be found in the Erzgebirge folk art in addition to the representation as a candlestick also as a nutcracker , above all as a smoking figure and as a motif on floating and standing pyramids . The smoking Turks often carry a candle as well as a long pipe.
This figure was particularly widespread in the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century in the area around Annaberg-Buchholz , Ehrenfriedersdorf , Wiesa and Wiesenbad .
Most of the bodies of the light-bearing Turkish figures are turned from wood and heavily painted, the arms and legs of the figures are often made of salt dough . Since the beginning of the 20th century, some carved Turkish figures have also been known, among others by the art carver Paul Schneider from Annaberg .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Sewart : Christmas tree and pyramid: An Erzgebirge Christmas book. Chemnitz 1995, ISBN 3-928678-09-4 .
- ↑ Hans-Jürgen Irmscher, Helga Köhler: Smokers in the Saxon Ore Mountains . Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-963-4 , p. 8.
- ↑ Light Turks in the festival of figures. In: Annaberger Zeitung. September 30, 2009, online ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 25, 2014.
