Published: 10/07/2011
Since September 2011 the Erzgebirge-palace is proud to offer you the Christmas Pyramids and Candle arches made by the traditional workshop “Holger Seidel”. This manufacturer is situated in Schönheide, one of the largest rural communities in the western Erzgebirge, surrounded by the nature park Erzgebirge/Vogtland (1495 km²). This region is not only acknowledged for it’s beautiful landscape, deep forests, hills and valleys, but also for his long tradition in Erzgebirge folk art. By the way, a classical Smoker motif, the “brush man”, is supposed to have been invented in Schönheide.
The workshop Holger Seidel designs Erzgebirge Pyramids, Candle arches and Window images of the highest quality, everything very skillfully handmade. This workshop has created several models of beautiful Christmas pyramids, from 1-tier up to 4-tier Pyramids. Here we want to introduce a very special piece to you:
4-tier Christmas pyramid “Gothic”, 135 cm / 53 inches
This artistically designed pyramid made by Holger Seidel is only manufactured in small quantities and is “the” special gift for Christmas, which will surely last for generations. The Seidel Christmas pyramids are characterized by careful workmanship and beautiful large figures. This fine piece, which is 135 cm (53 inches) high, is not only impressive because of its size, but also due to its beautiful ornaments in gothic style. You can order this Erzgebirge pyramid according to your wishes: The version you see in the picture has 12 electric candles that are operated with 230V/3W. An electric motor assures the perfect rotation of the fan and the four tiers of the pyramid. If you prefer the more traditional style, you can also order the pyramid with wax candles, which move the fan on top by their heat. You can also get the pyramid either with or without a figurine set. The photograph shows the pyramid, provided with a 16-piece decoration, illustrating a nativity scene, including Jesus, Mary and Joseph (the baby Jesus lies in a hand-carved cradle), ox and donkey, and the three wise men. Some angels, sheep and a palm tree complete the beautifully styled ensemble. The figures have been painted with smooth, warm colours, in perfect harmony with the natural wood tones of the pyramid.
You and your family will surely enjoy this Christmas pyramid for many, many years.
Published: 04/15/2011
We have added 300 items of Dregeno Seiffen to the Erzgebirge Palace. Dregeno is one of the leading brands because they unite more than 100 Erzgebirge workshops under 1 brand.
Many of the new items are incense smokermen with a large variety of professions. But also we have have added many new and unique Christmas pyramids and candle arches / light arches that one only find at the Dregeno workshops.
Published: 04/21/2010
The spring fair all over Germany have already shown that many new items will be added in 2010. We hav started today by adding 50 new Nutcrackers, incense smokers and Christmas Pyramids by the manufacturers Christian Ulbricht and Seiffener Volkskunst.
Among the new items are many new Christian Ulbricht Gnomes and very beautiful new large nutcrackers from the Ulbricht workshop. Many of the new nutcrackers are limited to 2500 pieces what makes them even more valuable. Also Ulbricht has created a new very traditonal Christmas Pyramid which is one of its kind.
Seiffener Volkskunst have designed new Christmas pyramids with a very modern, colorful designs. The pyramid are all 1-tier and have many figures placed on them.
Published: 12/12/2009
The Ergebirge Palace is proud to announce that we have crafted, delivered and set up the first giant German Erzgebirge pyramid in the USA.
During Christmas time one can see extra large outdoor Christmas pyramids on quite a few German Christmas fairs and other public places.
Since November 2009 the city of Fredericksburg Texas now owns the first of its kind in the USA. It measures 8 meters (26 ft.) and has 5 levels. Each level / tier carries a number of handcrafted wooden figurines such as nutcrackers, santas or nativity scene. The Christmas pyramid is turned by an electric motor.
The Fredericksburg XXL Christmas pyramid was entirely made in the German Erzgebirge. The total production time was 3 months and it was shipped with a 20 ft container over the ocean.
We are proud of the pyramid and wish the city of Fredericksburg and all tourists a wonderful Christmas time for many years to come with their original German Christmas pyramid.
Please klick here for more information about our large outdoor Christmas pyramids and the Fredericksburg, Texas pyramid.
Published: 04/09/2009
The Erzgebirge music boxes have become very popular over the last 20 years. Although other Erzgebirge items like the Christmas pyramid and the nutcracker are more popular, the music boxes have become an important part of Erzgebirge Folk Art. Most workshops have added music boxes to their range of products and you can find a large number of wooden music boxes in the Erzgebirge-palace.
Many customers
contact us because we do not state what kind of melody a specific music box plays. On some music boxes we have this information but most do not have any information about the melody. The reason for this is that the melody is subject to change very often. There are only a very few companies in the world that still make high quality musical movements. Those companies always make very large numbers of musical movements with the same melody. In order to be able to continuously craft music boxes the Erzgebirge workshops sometimes have to take what’s available at certain moment. They will always be able to get a Christmas melody for a Christmas theme music box, but which exact melody they will get depends on what is just produced by the manufacturer of the musical movements. We decided to better not state any melody instead of mentioning a melody that the music box might not be playing when a customer receives the music box. If you are interested in a certain music box and the song is important for please contact us and we will find out what your favorite music box plays at the moment.
Published: 03/27/2009
Many new items by Christian Ulbricht and KWO Olbernhau have been added to the Erzgebirge Palace. We have added over 100 new 2009 items to our web shop. Christian Ulbricht offers many new Nutcrackers and Incense Smokers to their range of products. Among them are 22 new large Nutcrackers. Most popular Christian Ulbricht theme is Santa Claus. Ulbricht has added many new Santa Clauses like a Wildlife Santa, Buffalo Santa and Santa in Nightshirt. All are made in the style of the very popular Ulbricht large nutcracker series (over 40 cm / 16 inches). Even more incense smoker men have been added. Christian Ulbricht has extended their popular Gnome Smoker Collectors Series with 8 new models. The KWO Olbernhau workshop has designed several new smokers. Most of them are the popular edge stool smoker figurines that can sit anywhere in the room instead of the regular standing figurines. Among the new models are 3 native Indians: Indian, Squaw and Indian chief.
Please check out the new Ulbricht and KWO items. As always we have made many large detailed pictures of the nutcrackers and incense smokers to look at.
Published: 03/06/2009
Starting today we offer information on our product range, payment- and shipping methods in selected languages and start this of with french, italian, spanish and chinese:
Published: 04/24/2008
The Erzgebirge Palace has added the small family owned workshp Baumann. The Baumann company has specialized in Candle Arches / Schwibbogen and Christmas Pyramids. Lovers of fretsaw works will be particularly impressed by the Baumann items. All together we have added 120 items made by Baumann. This includes about 40 Christmas Pyramids and 30 Lightarches / Schwibbogen. The exclusive Christmas Pyramids can be individually configured with different figurine sets. The figurine sets are available with Nativity figurines, Forest figurines and Miner figurines.
Published: 04/22/2008
We have added the new spring 2008 incense smokermen by Müller Kleinkunst. Müller has created 10 new and modern clown incense smokers.
Published: 04/21/2008
the Seiffener Volkskunst has launched about 20 new incense smokers with their favorite Ball-Figure design. We have added the funny new smokers. Also we have added 3 new classical Seiffener Volkskunst nutcrackers.
Since September 2011 the Erzgebirge-palace is proud to offer you the Christmas Pyramids and Candle arches made by the traditional workshop “Holger Seidel”. This manufacturer is situated in Schönheide, one of the largest rural communities in the western Erzgebirge, surrounded by the nature park Erzgebirge/Vogtland (1495 km²). This region is not only acknowledged for it’s beautiful landscape, deep forests, hills and valleys, but also for his long tradition in Erzgebirge folk art. By the way, a classical Smoker motif, the “brush man”, is supposed to have been invented in Schönheide.
