General Assembly in the club the Black Forest Clock

(Schönwald, Hotel Ochsen) Ingolf Haas, currently 1st Chairman of the Black Forest Clock Association, opens the meeting. He reports on the activities of the past year. Above all, the election of the cuckoo clock of the year at Hohenzollern Castle was the marketing campaign of the professional association for Black Forest cuckoo clocks, which achieved the highest visibility. More than 100.000 visitors saw the performance show of the Black Forest cuckoo clock manufacturer. 15.000 ballot papers were cast and evaluated. The cuckoo clock manufacturer Anton Schneider...

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Michelstadt town hall in the old town in sunny weather. Two pedestrians walk through the streets.

Cuckoo goes Germany: The end of the Black Forest Clock

Who actually says that a cuckoo clock is a Black Forest artifact? At least now no one! Because the traditional manufactory Anton Schneider recently released the first example of a new series that shows special buildings in Germany: The Michelstadt clock. “With this series of clocks we are showing special buildings in Germany. The Michelstadt watch is the first of its kind,” says Managing Director Jürgen Clute. Just like the Michelstadt town hall in the Odenwald, this cuckoo clock has two oriels on the left and right,...

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Dachdeckeruhr shows as motive a roofer on a shingled roof and a cat on the hayloft

Cuckoo clock to love: The new roofer clock

The more complications, the better! You only hear such a crazy sentence in a cuckoo clock factory. Because complications are movements and the movements make a cuckoo clock something very special: the dancers, the beer drinkers, the pendulum and of course the cuckoo that jumps out of its little house on the half hour and on the hour. In the Anton Schneider cuckoo clock factory, this idea gave rise to a world first: The roofer's clock is the world's first cuckoo clock with...

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