Featured German wooden box

Hi I was wondering does anyone know anything about this German box it's age? What it was used for? Thanks In advance

 

Love the graphics!

The phrase on the top is apparently German for Merry Christmas (at least that's what Professor Google said) although I don't see anything very Christmas-y about the pictures. With the different views around the box it may be a souvenir type. Don't know which city or region, though.

 

The "Spittlertor" is in Nuremburg.

 

Id guess 1920s in age,and probably had toys or something in it. Yes,there was once a world when every detail mattered,even the box you shipped something in !

 

Probably a candy gift box. Assuming you're in the U.S... Most likely will date from between the 1880s, which was the height of German immigration to the U.S., to 1914, which was when relationships between families was severed by the start of World War I. I'd think earlier in that range rather than later.

Debora

 

Nurnberger lebkuchen! They still often come in really nice boxes and tins, designed for reuse. We had Bavarian au pairs when I was little: they'd get lebkuchen sent over, very exotic at the time. Now, I buy them in Lidl.

 

Thanks guys yeah I googled the writing on front and got merry Christmas and the other writing is places around Germany it's a really beautiful box with such detail I love it

 

Nürnberger Lebkuchen. very hard to give an age because post-WW2 they certainly had no tole left, so they might have dropped back to carton.
the pics used are generic Nuremberg.

 

I'm in Ireland Deborah

 

The side with the tags has a picture of the house of genius artist Albrecht Dürer:


https://museums.nuernberg.de/albrecht-duerer-house/

My guess as well.

 

Here are a few more. All are undated but one clearly has an art nouveau motif. In general, I would think the more elaborately-constructed ones (e.g. with moulding and locks) are older.

Debora

 

I now want apricot jam filled plain chocolate lebkuchen.

 

Thanks a million for that I tried to look some up but couldn't see any what did you look up ? My dad gave it to me so I'm gonna put my kids birthday Christmas cards ect in

 

Good use for it. Lebkuchen boxes turn up even here, if not as often.

 

where from ?

 

Lidl! But they only sell them close to Christmas.

 

and the other city is Aldi ?
PS: I never heard that there is jam in a Lebkuchen.

 

I dunno if they're Korrekt. I do remember the ones I had as a child had that apricot filling , though.

 

the only ones I remember that had something else besides the spices were special ones that had a layer of Marzipan inside and were choclate-covered.

 

We get those too.

I'm hungry now.