{{Short description|Christmas model of the landscape of the Ore Mountains}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2025}} thumb|upright=1|Part of a ''Weihnachtsberg'' in the ''Manufaktur der Träume'' [[File:Keilberg 110429 ama fec(22).jpg |thumb|upright|A ''Buckelbergwerk'' with its doors opened and set up in the Keilberghaus near Schneeberg.]]
A '''Weihnachtsberg''' is a decorative, mountain-like model of the landscape of the Ore Mountains (between Germany and the Czech Republic), which is set up indoors during the Christmas period.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Berlin |first=Staatliche Museen zu |title=The Giant Mechanical Nativity Scene from the Ore Mountains |url=https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/the-giant-mechanical-nativity-scene-from-the-ore-mountains/ |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=www.smb.museum |language=en}}</ref> It portrays the nativity scene and mining motifs as well as local themes. The figures and objects are often movable and mechanically driven.
The Weihnachtsberg has its origins in the so-called ''Buckelbergwerk'' models of the 18th century, which only had mining subjects. In the 19th century, Christmas scenes were added.
== Literature == * Fachschule für Tourismus des Instituts für Soziale und Kulturelle Bildung e. V. (pub.): ''Heimat- und Weihnachtsberge des Sächsischen Erzgebirges.'' Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft 1996, {{ISBN|388042795X}} * Claus Leichsenring: ''Weihnachtsberge & Heimatberge: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Volkskultur im sächsischen Erzgebirge.'' Chemnitz: Gumnior, 2004. {{ISBN|3-937386-08-4}} * Gunter Bergmann: ''Kleines sächsisches Wörterbuch.'' Reclam, Leipzig
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== External links == * [http://www.lindenholz.homepage.t-online.de/sv_berge.htm "Neue Weihnachtsberge" ...der Bau von Weihnachtsbergen und Buckelbergwerken] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121214043811/http://www.lindenholz.homepage.t-online.de/sv_berge.htm |date=2012-12-14 }}
Category:Christmas decorations Category:Culture of the Ore Mountains Category:Nativity of Jesus in art