Räucherkerze

'smoking candle' or 'little smoking candle' or 'smoking cone') is an incense cone burned at Christmas time in Germany and in the Czech Republic in order to create pleasant scents around the house.

But it was not until the advent of modern Christmas customs in the middle of the 19th century and the manufacture of the first Räuchermännchen that they spread beyond the Ore Mountains.

The cones are made from the resin of the Frankincense tree, charcoal, potato flour, sandalwood and beech paste.

The incense candles are produced mainly in three locations in Saxony: in Neudorf under the name of Huss-Original Neudorfer Räucherkerzen, in Crottendorf as Original Crottendorfer Räucherkerzen and in Mohorn-Grund, a village in the borough of Wilsdruff, as KNOX.

Outside Saxony they are made in the Crottendorf-founded Carl Jaeger Räuchermittelfabrik in Höchst im Odenwald and, since 1997, in Bockau under the name Bockauer Räucherkerzen.