Friedrich Wilhelm Füchtner, the Ore Mountain carver who came up with the first "mass produced" model of a nutcracker in 1870, obviously didn't know that the character would one day become the ...

What most people think of today, the standing wooden nutcracker, was first made in the Ore Mountain region of eastern Germany in the early 19th century. Beyond the simple function to crack open ...

Nutcracker dolls can trace their little wooden development back to the Ore Mountains of Germany in the late 17th century.

(KRCW) — It’s a holiday tradition for many — and this year, the Oregon Ballet Theatre’s Nutcracker is breaking records. Ending on Dec. 24, the company’s Nutcracker performance has ...