The most famous nutcracker carvings come from Sonneberg in Thuringia ( also a center of dollmaking ) and from the Ore Mountains.

* Wooden toymaking in the Ore Mountains

Category: Culture of the Ore Mountains

The Erzgebirgskreis district covers the Ore Mountains, and the Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district includes Saxon Switzerland and the Eastern Ore Mountains.

* Greifensteine in the Ore Mountains of Saxony

Dresden's founding and early growth is associated with the eastward expansion of Germanic peoples, mining in the nearby Ore Mountains, and the establishment of the Margraviate of Meissen.

Dresden lies on both banks of the river Elbe, mostly in the Dresden Basin, with the further reaches of the eastern Ore Mountains to the south, the steep slope of the Lusatian granitic crust to the north, and the Elbe Sandstone Mountains to the east at an altitude of about.

Because of its location on the banks of the Elbe, into which some water sources from the Ore Mountains flow, flood protection is important.

Around the year 982, Imperial authority in Slavic territory extended as far east as the Lusatian Neisse River and as far south as the Ore Mountains.

The mineral has been known at least since the 15th century from silver mines in the Ore Mountains, on the German / Czech border.

There was also the matter of Johann Georg's wish for Emperor Leopold I to decide a law case concerning a wooded area in the Ore Mountains ( Erzgebirge ) in his favour.

Although winter sport in the Harz does not have the significance of other mountain areas, such as the Thuringian Forest, Ore Mountains, Black Forest or even the Alps, there are plenty of winter sport facilities.

The hilly Osterland constituting the northernmost foothills of the Ore Mountains slopes gently away to the plains of eastern Saxony-Anhalt.

* Nassau, Saxony, a village in the Ore Mountains

Located in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains, it is a part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area comprising 3. 5 million people.

In the Middle Ages the Ore Mountains were virtually unsettled and covered by dense forests.

The district was located in the western Ore Mountains on the Czech Republic – Germany border.

It is situated on the foot of the Fichtelberg, the second highest peak of the Ore Mountains at.

The Ore Mountains are a Hercynian block tilted so as to present a steep scarp face towards Bohemia and a gentle slope on the German side.

As the rock of the Ore Mountains was too brittle to be folded, it shattered into an independent fault block which was uplifted and tilted to the northwest.

Polabian Slavs (,, )-is a collective term applied to a number of Lechites tribes who lived along the Elbe river, between the Baltic Sea to the north, the Saale and the Limes Saxoniae to the west, the Ore Mountains and the Western Sudetes to the south, and Poland to the east.

The Lusatian Mountains (, ) are a mountain range of the Western Sudetes, located on the southeastern border of Germany with the Czech Republic east of the Elbe river, a continuation of the Ore Mountains range west of the Elbe valley.

The Borough is divided into sixteen electoral wards ; Ashdown, Baird, Braybrooke, Castle, Central St Leonards, Conquest, Gensing, Hollington, Maze Hill, Old Hastings, Ore, St Helens, Silverhill, Tressell, West St Leonards and Wishing Tree

From a geomorphological perspective it is divided into the Western, Central and Eastern Ore Mountains, separated by the valleys of the Schwarzwasser and Zwickauer Mulde and the Flöha (" Flöha Line "), the division of the western section along the River Schwarzwasser is of a more recent date.

South ( east ) of the Central and Eastern Ore Mountains lies the North Bohemian Basin and, immediately east of that, the Bohemian Central Uplands which are separated from the Eastern Ore Mountains by narrow fingers of the aforementioned basin.

in the Eastern Ore Mountains, calcite is mined, and near Lengefeld in the Central Ore Mountains, dolomite marble is extracted.

The Ore Mountains has its own dialect, Erzgebirgisch, which sits on the boundary between Upper German and Central German and is not therefore uniform.

It is situated in the plain of the Bílina river, which separates the Ore Mountains () in the northwest from the Czech Central Mountains ( Czech: České středohoří ) in the southeast.

There are four border crossings: the Østfold Line – Norway / Vänern Line, the Kongsvinger Line – Värmland Line, the Meråker Line – Central Line and the Ofoten Line – Iron Ore Line.

There are off-peak metro services to London Bridge and Sutton as well as mainline services to Bognor Regis, Brighton, Epsom, Ore, Portsmouth Harbour and Southampton Central.

Most (;,, Romani: Mosti ) is the capital city of the Most District, situated between the Central Bohemian Uplands and the Ore Mountains, approximately northwest of Prague along the Bílina River and southwest of Ústí nad Labem.

Water vole, Ore Mountains ( Central Europe ) | Ore Mountains, Germany

* Ashdown ; Baird ; Braybrooke ; Castle ; Central St Leonards ; Conquest ; Gensing ; Hollington ; Maze Hill ; Old Hastings ; Ore ; St Helens ; Silverhill ; Tressell ; West St Leonards ; Wishing Tree.

* Erzgebirgisch, a distinct dialect, is spoken in the villages of the Central Ore Mountains.

As the war prevented immigration from Europe, major companies recruited black workers from the South to work at the Aluminum Ore Company and the American Steel Company.

Ore, Silverhill and Hollington were once villages that have since become part of the Hastings conurbation area during rapid growth.

Ore deposits of palladium and other PGMs are rare, and the most extensive deposits have been found in the norite belt of the Bushveld Igneous Complex covering the Transvaal Basin in South Africa, the Stillwater Complex in Montana, United States, the Thunder Bay District of Ontario, Canada, and the Norilsk Complex in Russia.

In the introduction to the 1967 edition of the book, Elliot Schaffer notes that in his short lifetime James Hunt is said to have treated over 1, 700 cases of speech impediment, firstly in his father's practise and later at his own institute, Ore House near Hastings, which he set up with the aid a doctorate he had purchased in 1856 from the University of Giessen in Germany.

Although officials of Indian and Northern Affairs were certainly aware of the intention of the Naskapis to move from Fort Chimo to Schefferville and may even have instigated that move, they appear to have done little or nothing to prepare for their arrival there, not even by warning the representatives of the Iron Ore Company of Canada (" IOCC ") or the municipality of Schefferville.

The mines founded on the Broken Hill Ore Deposit – the world's richest lead-zinc ore body – have until recently provided the majority of direct employment and indirect employment in the city.

Ore deposits associated with this upthrust have been of significant historical importance in the development of the region, for example, in Suhl and Ilmenau.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Hans Soph, Stephan Dietrich and especially Anton Günther were active ; their works have a lasting impact to this day in Ore Mountain songs and writings.

In addition, traditional Christmas mining celebrations such as the Mettenschicht and Hutzenabende draw many visitors and have made the Ore Mountains known as " Christmasland " ( Weihnachtsland ).

Since 1998 the Ore Mounains have striven to achieve UNESCO World Heritage status as the Ore Mountain Mining Region ( Montanregion Erzgebirge ).

* At 09: 30 on 23 January 1948, a train formed of a 6PAN and a 6PUL unit, which had formed that day's 08: 05 from Seaford and 07: 30 from Ore, was allowed to draw up to the inner home signal, where it should have stopped.

There have been numerous conflicting reports and theories, among them that the Amber Room was destroyed by bombing, hidden in a now-lost subterranean bunker in Königsberg, buried in mines in the Ore Mountains, or taken onto a ship or submarine which was sunk by Soviet forces in the Baltic Sea.

While Operation Ore did identify and prosecute a number of sex offenders, the validity of the police procedures was later questioned, as errors in the investigations were claimed by some to have resulted in a large number of false arrests.

The appeal had been considered to be a landmark case where success could have led to many of the other convictions achieved as a result of Ore being overturned.

* Iron ore was mined in the Slovenské rudohorie ( Slovak Ore Mountains ) and near Prague and Plzeň, but reserves have nearly been exhausted in the 1980s.

In mathematics, a harmonic divisor number, or Ore number ( named after Øystein Ore who defined it in 1948 ), is a positive integer whose divisors have a harmonic mean that is an integer.

Cohen, Goto, and others starting with Ore himself have performed computer searches listing all small harmonic divisor numbers.

* The Specials, Peste & Sida, The Aggrolites, Reel Big Fish, Los Pericos, Big D and the Kids Table, Amy Winehouse, Melt Banana, No Doubt, Adam Ant ( on the scrapped Save The Gorilla EP ) and Ore Ska Band have all covered " Monkey Man ".

Hastings Borough Council have recently approved an Adventure Playground to be built in the Broomgrove area of Ore.

" As part of the National Play Pathfinder programme, local young people and partners including East Sussex County Council, Hastings Borough Council, Play England and In2Play have been developing a new, exciting and innovative adventure playground which will open in Summer 2010 in Ore Valley, Hastings.

The plans are to add new houses to the area, have a more efficient rail and bus service in the Ore Valley area, open more shops and community spaces such as community centre's, parks, playgrounds and the new Sussex Coast College Hastings campus.