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Sonneberg

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Sonneberg (zôn`əbĕrgh'), city (1994 pop. 25,655), Thuringia, E central Germany; first mentioned 1317. It is the center of the Thuringian toy industry and is home to a toy museum.


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In Europe, specialized toy-making centers emerged as early as the sixteenth century in and around the small German towns of Sonneberg and Erzebirge as well in the Groeden Valley in South Tyrol where families carved distinctive wooden animals and dolls in their cottages for an extensive European market.
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