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Tenth anniversary for world's biggest cuckoo clock
21 Jun 2006
The makers of the world's largest cuckoo clock are preparing for its tenth anniversary.
Deep in the Black Forest the clock, which resembles a house, includes a 150kg cuckoo and 100kg pendulum to keep it going.
The cuckoo pops out ever hour at Eble Clock Park in the village of Schonachbach, although locals now seem used to the noise.
Given the size of the clock - which took five years to build following 100-year-old plans but scaled up 60 times it is possible to go on tours of the mechanisms and get inside. The tour also includes wine-tasting.
Nearby in the village of Schonach also has a sizeable cuckoo clock, smaller than Schonachbach's and merely the size of a bungalow.
Also in the same area, in the town of Triberg, famous for Germany's biggest waterfall, the oversized cuckoo clock is only 8m high, but it is found in the House of 1,000 Clocks.
Cuckoo clocks take such a prominence in the Black Forest, when they are usually associated with Switzerland, because the first such timepiece was made near Triberg in the mid 17th century by Franz Anton Ketterer.
© Adfero Ltd
Deep in the Black Forest the clock, which resembles a house, includes a 150kg cuckoo and 100kg pendulum to keep it going.
The cuckoo pops out ever hour at Eble Clock Park in the village of Schonachbach, although locals now seem used to the noise.
Given the size of the clock - which took five years to build following 100-year-old plans but scaled up 60 times it is possible to go on tours of the mechanisms and get inside. The tour also includes wine-tasting.
Nearby in the village of Schonach also has a sizeable cuckoo clock, smaller than Schonachbach's and merely the size of a bungalow.
Also in the same area, in the town of Triberg, famous for Germany's biggest waterfall, the oversized cuckoo clock is only 8m high, but it is found in the House of 1,000 Clocks.
Cuckoo clocks take such a prominence in the Black Forest, when they are usually associated with Switzerland, because the first such timepiece was made near Triberg in the mid 17th century by Franz Anton Ketterer.
© Adfero Ltd
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