Seiffen

The town of Seiffen is situated in the district of Erzgebirgskreis, which is in the central south of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. The earliest record of the town dates to 1324 when it was alluded to as "Cynsifen". Seiffen settles in the core of the Ore Mountains, which are well known for some Christmas customs. As the silver and tin stores declined, previous excavators needed to search for better approaches to nourish their families.

Notwithstanding ribbon making and weaving, the neighborhood population swung to wood cutting. Nutcrackers, "smoking men", Christmas pyramids and Schwibbogen are some of numerous Christmas products made in the Ore Mountains. Seiffen is a focal point of the wooden toy industry. The historical backdrop of Seiffen began when diggers opened up the district 700 years prior. With the subsidence of metal mining in the region, Seiffen swung to wooden toy produce as an issue of monetary survival.

In 1699, Seiffen inhabitant Johann Friedrich Hiemann took Seiffen toys to advertise at Nuremberg. Nuremberg was a toy dissemination advertise for quite a bit of Europe around then. To begin with, the minimal effort of living and financial dejection in the Ore Mountains permitted costs much lower than the remainder of European toy makers selling at the Nuremberg showcase. Second, the high caliber of toys being created in Seiffen.