German clock route
The German Clock Route is a holiday route that runs from the central Black Forest through the Southern Black Forest to the Baar and touches the centers of Black Forest clock production .
Localities and districts
Locations touched (alphabetically): 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
Affected districts: Schwarzwald-Baar , Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald , Rottweil , Tuttlingen , Emmendingen and Ortenau
Sights along the way
On the subject of watches
- German clock museum in Furtwangen with the largest German clock collection
- Watch industry museum in Villingen-Schwenningen with a focus on the history of watch production
- Largest cuckoo clocks in the world in Schonach
- Güttenbach village museum with many clocks from the local watchmaking trade
- Monastery Museum St. Märgen , which illustrates the development of the Black Forest clock and the Black Forest clock dealers abroad
- Museum Inventor Times in the world of cars and clocks in Schramberg with a focus on the Schramberg clock factory Junghans and the development of the clock industry in the Black Forest in general
- Junghans Terrassenbau Museum in the iconic factory building built between 1916 and 1918 by Philipp Jakob Manz , also opened in Schramberg in 2018.
Other sights
- Mountain waterfall leading to the highest and most famous waterfalls in Germany include
- Badische Schwarzwaldbahn , a technically extraordinary mountain railway with 40 tunnels
- Titisee , the largest natural lake in the Black Forest
- Churches and monasteries of the Baroque in St. Margen and St. Peter
- German Harmonica Museum in Trossingen
literature
- Rüdiger Gramsch: Where the hour strikes. Out and about with Hansy Vogt on the German Clock Route. Silberburg Verlag GmbH, Tübingen 2017. ISBN 978-3-8425-2010-3 . (Stations on the Deutsche Uhrenstrasse).
Web links
Commons : Deutsche Uhrenstrasse - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: German Clock Route - travel guide
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schwarzwälder Bote, Oberndorf Germany: Schramberg: Terrassenbau-Museum opens - Black Forest Bote. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .