![]() Kieningers, Sattlers, Naeschkes (4 years on one wind, +/- 5 sec. Hettich 8 comes 60 bucks more, including a two tune box, andĪfter getting pretty dizzy, I didn't even look at the price tags Let me say, a cuckoo clock - I mean a real good cuckoo clock - isn'tĪ bargain. Showroom is in the former building of the Dold company. The Herr clocks where found in a quiet museums shop and the Hettich Now we can leave this densely occupied area of Triberg and have a lookĪt what the "genuine" cuckoo factories have to offer, for example, Have over 50% Chinese employees, no joke. Some of the major clock shops (the exspensive ones, that is) already It's Chinese, Indian and Arabian mainly, some British and Swiss too. Years ago, there were many Japanese and American tourists there, now Of people piling out of them have changed. Scores of tourist busses block the curvy and hilly street, but the faces Genuine cuckoo whistles for the kids by the thousands and lots of other gimmicks too. The "smallest" BF clocks in the world (all genuine plastic) start at Main street selling Cuckoos Made in Germany, Made in China, They have the "highest" waterfall in Germany (forget about it)Īs a main tourist attraction, dozens of souvenir shops on the It was common to be "a local with pride" in those times. The saying is, that the clockmakers from "the other villages" Miles around Furtwangen, with Titisee-Neustadt and Triberg In ye olde days, the reknown BF clockmakers, who madeĨ day clocks, were situated mainly in a radius of about 10 These arrangements are still found all over the Black Forest today - with The actual farm, and the smaller "Häusle". The last two pictures show a beautiful contemporary ensemble of the "Hof", These "Häuslebauern" (house farmers) could usually not earn a living byįarming alone, so they started to carve wooden utensiles and one day,Īlmost all the clockmakers were "Häuslebauern", lacking a big farm. Maybe even a small shed for a goat or a cow. House, the "Häusle" on a plot of land nearby, with a herb garden in front, or The other children, not inheriting the farm, would build their much smaller The farms were called "Hof" and of course, there could only be one heir The early clockmakers worked in an atmosphere like that. One of the pictures shows a typical "Stube", a family room. You can see, the roofs were pulled down, almost to the ground, on the Were huge buildings, including the stables, barns and living quarters in The farms were at that time often some 150 years old and some of them Mail coaches reached the region some 50 years later, railroads after They liked to stay among themselves, not trusting "outsiders".Īlmost everything they did, they did on foot. Presume, it's around 1750, the people live and labor in villages orįarms in valleys, surrounded by steepest hills and dense forests, absolutely nobody went there, without a good, decent purpose.įorbidding and repelling these forests were, indeed.ĭepending on the weather, the dark of the BF can still get you the shivers easily. Like, the Roman legions avoided the "silva nigra". Remember, right now, we're talking about a very remote and ruggedĬountryside, hard to travel in the past, even in summer, lest to mention So, my intent is to show you the real thing, not a Disneyland sceneĪs often offered by the tourist businesses - that's a different story. The "Wälder" (forest dwellers) made them. Of BF and cuckoo clocks and especialy, under which circumstances On a trip to the Black Forest last weekend, I thought maybe IĬould do something like a small essay, for the better understanding ![]() Tell me if you like this, please, because I will have to do several
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