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On the Trail of the Clock Carriers

Follow the historical trail of the clock carriers and experience the history of Black Forest cuckoo clocks while visiting the loveliest places in the mid and southern Black Forest.

Start in Villingen-Schwenningen with the clock museum and clock industry museum in Schwenningen, and the Franciscan museum in Villingen.

Continue to Titisee-Neustadt via Voehrenbach and Eisenbach, then to St. Maergen, (lovely detour to the romantically situated Hexenlochmuehle mill), and on to St. Peter, with it´s baroque monastery church. Drive a little further to Waldkirch, famous for it´s clock and organ collection in the Elztalmuseum. Continue via Simonswald to Furtwangen, where the German clock museum chronicles the history of the Black Forest clock. The two biggest cuckoo clocks in the world await you in Schonach and Triberg, before the tour continues through Hornberg and on to Schramberg (horological high technology from Junghans, besides the romatnic setting of the castle ruins). Return to Villingen-Schwenningen via Rottweil.
Distance: approx. 230 km
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