German Clock Road

Updated on Dec 17, 2024

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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.

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

With a clock theme

German Clock Museum in Furtwangen 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

Gütenbach Village Museum with many clocks by local clockmakers

St. Märgen 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

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

References

German Clock Road Wikipedia

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Towns, villages and counties

With a clock theme

Other attractions

References