Saturday 8 September 2012

Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks

Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks

When someone mentions the Black Forest Clock, the Cuckoo Clock immediately comes to mind. The first cuckoo clocks were made arount the year 1738 and since then have always been associated witth the Black Forest. This popular timekeeper was marked worldwide and is identified even now as the most comonly produced Black Forest Clock.
The technical initiative to construct clocks with a bird call came almost certainly from the medieval clocks designed and built for Kings and Emperors of Euorpe. One source of inspiration for the cuckoo clock is the rooster on the top of the stars bourge cathederal of FRANCEA rooster with suck a call can also be found on Cathedrals in Bern Switzerland, and on the astronomical clock in Prague, Czechoslovakia

Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks

Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks

Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks

Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks

Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks

Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks

Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks

Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks

Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks

Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks


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