German Clock Road

The German Clock Road (German: Deutsche Uhrenstraße) or German Clock Route is a holiday route that runs from the Central Black Forest through the Southern Black Forest to the Baar region and thus links the centres of Black Forest clock manufacturing. It is about 320 kilometres (200 mi) long.^[1]

Towns, villages and counties

The towns and villages along the route (in alphabetic order) are Deißlingen, Eisenbach, Furtwangen, Gütenbach, Hornberg, Königsfeld, Lauterbach, Lenzkirch, Niedereschach, Rottweil, Schönwald, Schonach, Schramberg, Simonswald, St. Georgen, St. Märgen, St. Peter, Titisee-Neustadt, Triberg, Trossingen, Villingen-Schwenningen, Vöhrenbach, Waldkirch.

The counties through which the German Clock Road runs are Schwarzwald-Baar, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Rottweil, Tuttlingen, Emmendingen and Ortenau.^[2]

Attractions en route

With a clock theme

German Clock Museum in Furtwangen im Schwarzwald with the largest collection of clocks in Germany
Museum of Clockmaking in Villingen-Schwenningen which focusses on the history of clock manufacture
Largest cuckoo clock in the world in Schonach im Schwarzwald
Gütenbach Village Museum with many clocks by local clockmakers
St. Märgen's Abbey Museum, which portrays the development of the Black Forest clock and Black Forest clock dealers abroad
ErfinderZeiten Museum in the car and clock world in Schramberg with an emphasis on the Schramberg clock factory of Junghans as well as the development of the Black Forest clock industry in general^[3]

Other attractions

Triberg Waterfalls, which is one of the highest and best known waterfalls in Germany
Black Forest Railway, a technically unusual mountain railway with 40 tunnels
Titisee, the largest natural lake in the Black Forest
Baroque churches and abbeys in St. Märgen and St. Peter
German Harmonica Museum in Trossingen

Literature

Rüdiger Gramsch: Wo die Stunde schlägt. Mit Hansy Vogt unterwegs auf der Deutschen Uhrenstraße. Silberburg Verlag GmbH, Tübingen 2017. ISBN 978-3-8425-2010-3. (Stationen an der Deutschen Uhrenstraße). (in German)

References

^ e.V, Deutsche Zentrale für Tourismus. "German Clock Route – A history of timepieces from the Black Forest". www.germany.travel. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
^ "German Clock Route Stands The Test Of Time". Retrieved 2020-09-01.
^ Parallelus. "On the trail of the Black Forest Cuckooclock » Black Forest Clock Association". Retrieved 2020-09-01.