The Wooden Nutcracker Herr Drozzelmeyer Puppet
is 5.75 inches tall. These Nutcracker Ornaments are wearing a black jacket with a silver glitter coat flaps. He has a purple bow on with white lace under it. He has gold cuffs with white lace trim. There are three yellow cufflinks on each sleeve. The Herr Drozzelmeyer puppet is wearing a black and red undershirt with gold stripes. There are four yellow buttons at the bottom of this Christmas Nutcracker Decorations shirt. He is wearing grey pants. Herr Drozzelmeyer has on white socks with black tops and a yellow button. His shoes are black with a gold buckle. He is wearing a black top hat with a gold band around its base. There is a white string with a red wooden bead near its bottom you can pull to move his arms and legs. Select to see a complete listing of our Christmas Decorations Ideas.
Herr Drosselmeyer
Herr Drosselmeyer is a mysterious magician and creator of mechanical toys and clocks. He also was once employed at the royal palace, where he invented a trap that killed off half the mouse population. In revenge, the wicked Mouse Queen cast a spell on Drosselmeyer's nephew, Hans-Peter, which transformed him into an ugly nutcracker doll. The only way to break the spell is for the Nutcracker to slay the Mouse King and for a young girl to love and care for him in spite of his awful appearance. Drosselmeyer is invited to a Christmas party given by his friends, the Stahlbaums. The Stahlbaums have a daughter, Clara, who is a little younger than Hans-Peter. Drosselmeyer decides to put the Nutcracker in the tender care of Clara. When all the guests have departed and the house is asleep, Clara, in search of the nutcracker doll, creeps downstairs and discovers Drosselmeyer waiting for her. He draws her into his own special world of fantasy, where time is suspended, and exerts all his powers to transform the living room into a great battlefield. Then he summons the Mouse King. In the ensuing fight between the mice and the toy soldiers, the Nutcracker slays the Mouse King, but only through the intervention of Clara. Restored to his real self, Hans-Peter dances with Clara, and they find themselves in the Land of Snow. Drosselmeyer then sends them on a magic journey to the Sugar Garden in the Kingdom of Sweets, where they meet the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince. Freed at last from his imprisonment inside the nutcracker, Hans-Peter recounts to the Sugar Plum Fairy his great adventure and how Clara saved his life.
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The History Of Nutcrackers.
A nutcracker is a device for cracking nuts. It works on the principle of movement derived from Archimedes' discovery of the lever.
Nutcrackers as wood carvings of a soldier, knight, king, or other profession have been known since at least the 15th century. These nutcrackers are carvings of a person with a big mouth that is opened by pressing a lever in the back of the figurine. Originally one could insert a nut in the big-toothed mouth, press down and thereby crack the nut. Modern nutcrackers in this style are mostly for decoration.
The carving of nutcrackers as well as religious figures and cribs developed as a cottage industry in forested rural areas of Germany. The most famous nutcracker carvings come from Sonneberg, Thuringia, also a center of doll making, and from the Ore Mountains. Wood carving was usually the only income for the people living there. Today their income is supplemented by the travel industry bringing visitors to the remote areas.
Nutcrackers have become popular in the United States as well and a recreated "Bavarian village" of Leavenworth, Washington even features a Nutcracker Museum. Many other materials were used for the decorated nutcrackers, such as porcelain, silver, and brass, and can be seen at the museum.
Carvings by famous names like Jungbanel, Mertens, Karl, Kolbe, Petersen, Ulbricht and especially the Steinbach nutcrackers have become collectors' items.
