The Black Forest Cuckoo Clock Rivalry

The Schonach Cuckoo Clock.

By following the German Clock Road (“Deutsche Uhrenstraße”), holiday makers in southwest Germany’s Black Forest find themselves in the heart of hotly contested territory: namely, who has the world’s largest cuckoo clock.

“World’s First Largest Cuckoo Clock to Visit” (Schonach Cuckoo Clock).

There are so many world’s largest cuckoo clocks that one of them, in Schonach, has declared itself The First World’s Largest Cuckoo Clock (“Erste Weltgrößte Kuckucksuhr”).

The working interior of the Schonach Cuckoo Clock.

Further down the road in Triberg lies another (suspiciously smaller) world’s largest cuckoo clock, along with a shop named Haus der 1000 Uhren (“House of a Thousand Clocks”).

The suspisciously smaller “world’s largest cuckoo clock” down the road in Triberg.

Triberg’s “House of 1,000 Clocks” shop

The Schwarzwald is, perhaps not coincidentally, the world’s largest manufacturer of cuckoo clocks.