Christmas mountain
A Christmas mountain (also called angle or Christmas angle in the Ore Mountains) is a mountain-like landscape replica from the Ore Mountains , which is set up inside the house during the Christmas season . Usually one corner of a room is provided with a shelf-like wooden angle. The motif is then built up on this. In the central Ore Mountains mountains were often built from shapely roots, which were then covered with moss and then decorated. Crib , hunting and mining motifs are shown , as well as local themes. The figures and machines used are, provided they are designed to be movable, driven by a mechanism.
The Christmas mountains have their origins in the humpback mines of the 18th century, which were merely mining motifs. The Christmas motif was added in the 19th century. From the middle of the 19th century, Christmas mountains and corners were also equipped with mass figures , as these represented an inexpensive alternative to the relatively expensive carved figures for the poorer population.
Almost lost as a living cultural asset in the Ore Mountains, Christmas mountains and corners are enjoying increasing popularity again today and are increasingly finding their way back into private households.
In 2008 there was a special exhibition of Christmas mountains in the Museum of Mining Folk Art in Schneeberg .
literature
- Technical school for tourism of the Institute for Social and Cultural Education e. V. (Hrsg.): Home and Christmas mountains of the Saxon Ore Mountains. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2012, ISBN 978-3-88042-795-2 .
- Claus Leichsenring : Christmas Mountains & Homeland Mountains. A contribution to the history of folk culture in the Saxon Ore Mountains. Gumnior, Chemnitz 2004, ISBN 3-937386-08-4 .
- Gunter Bergmann: Small Saxon Dictionary. Reclam, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-021520-3 .
Web links
- Wolfgang Süß: "New Christmas Mountains" ... the construction of Christmas mountains and humpback mines
- Christmas mountains and humpback mines , film at MDR-Mediatek
- Krippenweg Erzgebirge - Internet portal about Christmas mountains and nativity scenes in the Saxon Erzgebirge