The craft of wooden ring turning exists only in one place -in Seiffen and is only dominated by 8 craftsmen.  Christian Werner is one of them. Wooden ring turning

arose with the decline of tin mining end of 18th century. The existing hydro power was used for the turning of characters, pyramid parts, mechanical toys and

other things. But is was hardly possible to produce animals of turned parts. Therefore, the invention of wooden ring turning was a small sensation. It was a breakthrough in the manufacture of toy animals and a huge gain in the toy range. Wooden ring turning requires not only physical strength but also sense of form and high imagination. A trained wooden ring turner is able to produce a variety of animal character profile and accessories with little technical effort.