Black Forest cuckoo clock
The wall clock in which a cuckoo calls the hours – the Black Forest’s best-seller.
The cuckoo clock emerged in the Black Forest in the 18th century. From the 1850s the railway-house case – the Bahnhäusle – and later the hunting lodge with carved animals became standard.
Factories such as Junghans and Kienzle made the Black Forest a centre of the clock industry. Cuckoo clocks have been copied in quantity; older ones have movements with wooden wheels or brass plates and hand-carved cases.
Materials: Carved wood, movement of wood and brass, bellows of paper and wood
Manufacture: Made in the Black Forest, where clockmaking was a winter cottage industry before the factories took over.
The case as a house or hunting lodge, with carved leaves and animals.
Two small bellows that give the cuckoo’s two notes.
Weights shaped like pine cones and a movement of wood or brass.