The Saxon town of Aue has much more to offer than its soccer club. It also scores points for its craftsmanship and creative ideas. In Frank Neumann's workshop, you'll see a steaming goulash kettle or barbecue in one corner and a moss-covered mushroom hut in another. The original wooden smoking objects are worked out with an exact eye for detail.

The small, family run manufactory of Frank Neumann does not focus on a wide range of products, but on a manageable number of original objects, which are colorfully painted and - often with a wink - lovingly decorated with numerous accessories. The various barbecues in noble black accommodate, in addition to the grilled food, a champagne bottle and a food bowl filled to the brim. The kettle grill is equipped with a white and blue checkered kitchen towel, while under another barbecue a yellow jug finds its place. Fancy and unusual objects are the Neumann's field kitchens for the fire department or the army, and the different smoking stoves for preparing fish and meat. Not missing, of course, grandma's good old stove for heating and cooking or the atmospheric bath oven.

The smoking toadstool or the smoking mushroom hut, which stands on a tree slice, are also particularly cute. Neumann's mushrooms present themselves fresh and in warm colors, as if taken from a storybook. Small moss nests and ladybugs round out the romantic design. The smoked mushrooms are natural or colored glazed. The translucent grain of the wood effectively supports the turned forms.