Cuckoo
clock
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.
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Figure
clock
Next to cuckoo clocks, other simple automates of the technical
terminology ”figure clocks” and in dialect called
"Männleuhren" were soon invented. Eyes were
rolling by the stroke of each second, bells were ringing
or even soldiers were marching - it was the home movie of
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