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With all due deference to @fizzy.bleach, as someone with an Anglo-German background I'll answer this nice and quick so we can all get back to the humble mincer without any unpleasantness. Lebkuchen is a broader church than the mince pie; apart from yer basics - a heavily spiced gingerbread base, usually with rye flour and a healthy proportion of chopped nuts - there's more structural diversity: soft or hard texture? Chocolate or sugar glaze? Rice-paper base? Apricot jam filling, or even more exotica (I'm rather partial to Dominosteine, with marzipan and a jaffa-cake-like jelly topping)?
To be honest, I'd just go to Lidl, who have a perfectly acceptable selection of different kinds (their Nürnberger Oblaten are a particular favourite); my mum used to have all kinds of clandestine family networks to get hold of suitable Advent fare, but since a Lidl opened locally a few years back she just goes there, and she's not exactly easy to please.