For the majority of people the perfect example for the Black Forest clock. They were probably first made between 1730 and 1750. Whether Schönwald or Neukirch was first, must remain an unanswered question. The cuckoo clock, as now generally known, goes back to a competition in 1850, where the so called "Bahnhäusleform" (shape of a station gatekeeper house) was the designated winner and honored by the architecture professor Friedrich Eisenlohr of Karlsruhe.