ANGEL and MINER

Christmas in the Ore Mountains is especially shaped by its richness of lights, justified in the miner`s longing for the sunlight.
In the dark season, often no daylight-ray pleased the miner for weeks-from the early morning up to his late closing time-, since again he arrived in the wedded circle of his loves.
Does it participate a miracle that he equated joy, hope and luck with light that he ignited lights and put them at the windows that they illuminated his way?
Already very early, the miner (in the Ore Mountains) strove to create figures that carry his Christmas lights. So, light-carrying miners and angels originated when doing handicrafts and carving.
Still today, some families hold on to the custom to put so many angels and miners at the windows as they have daughters and sons.