The German Clock Road (german: Deutsche Uhrenstraße) or German Clock Route is a

holiday route A scenic route, tourist road, tourist route, tourist drive, holiday route, theme route, or scenic byway is a specially designated road or waterway that travels through an area of natural or cultural beauty. It often passes by scenic viewpoint ...

that runs from the

Central Black Forest The Central Black Forest (german: Mittlerer Schwarzwald), also called the Middle Black Forest, is a natural or cultural division of the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It generally refers to a region of deeply incised valleys from t ...

through the

Southern Black Forest The Southern Black Forest (german: Südschwarzwald) is the highest part of the Black Forest, an area heavily transformed by ice age glaciation south of a line roughly from Freiburg im Breisgau to Donaueschingen. The term High Black Forest is no ...

to the

Baar region The Baar () is a plateau that lies 600 to 900 metres above sea level in southwest Germany. It is bordered by the southeastern edge of the Black Forest to the west, the southwestern part of the Swabian Alb known as the Heuberg to the east, and th ...

and thus links the centres of Black Forest clock manufacturing. It is about 320 kilometres long.

Towns, villages and counties

The towns and villages along the route (in alphabetic order) are

Deißlingen Deißlingen is a municipality of the Rottweil (district), district of Rottweil of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. History In 1802-03, Deißlingen, a possession of the Free Imperial City of Rottweil, and Lauffen ob Rottweil, a property of Rottenmün ...

Eisenbach Eisenbach is a town in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europ ...

, Furtwangen,

Gütenbach Gütenbach is a municipality in the district of Schwarzwald-Baar in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is the home of the Faller toy company. History Gütenbach, originally called Wuotenbach, was first mentioned in an official certificate in the ...

Hornberg Hornberg is a town in the Ortenaukreis, in western Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the Black Forest, 35 km southeast of Offenburg, and 25 km northwest of Villingen-Schwenningen. Sons and daughters of the town * ( ...

, Königsfeld, Lauterbach,

Lenzkirch Lenzkirch is a municipality in the Black Forest. It lies in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Geography Lenzkirch is on the Black Forest plateau, in the valley of the river Haslach, which near the south ...

Niedereschach Niedereschach is a town, with 6000 inhabitants, in the district of Schwarzwald-Baar in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Geography Niedereschach lies in the Eschach valley on the eastern edge of the Black Forest between 620 and 720 metres above se ...

Rottweil Rottweil (; Alemannic: ''Rautweil'') is a town in southwest Germany in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Rottweil was a free imperial city for nearly 600 years. Located between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alps, Rottweil has nearly 25,000 in ...

, Schönwald, Schonach, Schramberg,

Simonswald Simonswald ( Low Alemannic: ''Simeschwald'') is a town in the district of Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Twin towns : Worthing Worthing () is a seaside town in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of B ...

, St. Georgen, St. Märgen,

St. Peter ) (Simeon, Simon) , birth_date = , birth_place = Bethsaida, Gaulanitis, Syria, Roman Empire , death_date = Between AD 64–68 , death_place = probably Vatican Hill, Rome, Italia, Roman Empire , parents = John (or Jonah; Jona) , occupation ...

, Titisee-Neustadt, Triberg,

Trossingen Trossingen ( Swabian: ''Drossinge'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in a region called Baar, between the Swabian Alb and the Black Forest. Stuttgart is about an hour away, Lake Constance about half an hour, and the sour ...

, Villingen-Schwenningen,

Vöhrenbach Vöhrenbach is a town in the district of Schwarzwald-Baar, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Breg (river), Breg, 12 km west of Villingen-Schwenningen. Geography The town of Vöhrenbach lies in the Breg valley in th ...

Waldkirch Waldkirch is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located 15 kilometers northeast of Freiburg im Breisgau. While the English translation of its name is ''Forest Church'', it is known as the "town of mechanical organs", where fairground organs ...

. The counties through which the German Clock Road runs are Schwarzwald-Baar,

Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald (french: Arrondissement de Brisgau-Haute-Forêt-Noire) is a (district) in the southwest of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Fifty towns and municipalities with 133 settlements lie within the district. The district itself belon ...

Tuttlingen Tuttlingen (Alemannic: ''Duttlinga'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, capital of the district Tuttlingen. Nendingen, ''Möhringen'' and ''Eßlingen'' are three former municipalities that belong to Tuttlingen. Tuttlingen is located in Swabia eas ...

, Emmendingen and

Ortenau The Ortenau, originally called Mortenau, is a historic region in the present-day German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the right bank of the river Rhine, stretching from the Upper Rhine Plain to the foothill zone of the Black Fore ...

Attractions en route

With a clock theme

* '' German Clock Museum'' in

Furtwangen im Schwarzwald Furtwangen im Schwarzwald (; Low Alemannic: ''Furtwange im Schwarzwald'') is a small city located in the Black Forest region of southwestern Germany. Together with Villingen-Schwenningen, Furtwangen is part of the district (German: Kreis) of Sch ...

with the largest collection of clocks in Germany * '' Museum of Clockmaking'' in Villingen-Schwenningen which focusses on the history of clock manufacture * Largest '' cuckoo clock'' in the world in Schonach im Schwarzwald * ''Gütenbach Village Museum'' with many clocks by local clockmakers * '' St. Märgen's Abbey Museum'', which portrays the development of the Black Forest clock and Black Forest clock dealers abroad * ''ErfinderZeiten'' Museum in the car and clock world in Schramberg with an emphasis on the Schramberg clock factory of Junghans as well as the development of the Black Forest clock industry in general

Other attractions

* '' Triberg Waterfalls'', which is one of the highest and best known

waterfalls in Germany This list of notable waterfalls of the world is sorted by continent, then country, then province, state or territory. A waterfall is included if it has an existing article specifically for it on Wikipedia, and it is at least high, or the fa ...

* '' Black Forest Railway'', a technically unusual mountain railway with 40 tunnels * '' Titisee'', the largest natural lake in the

Black Forest The Black Forest (german: Schwarzwald ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is t ...

* Baroque ''churches'' and ''abbeys'' in St. Märgen and St. Peter * '' German Harmonica Museum'' in Trossingen

Literature

* Rüdiger Gramsch: ''Wo die Stunde schlägt. Mit Hansy Vogt unterwegs auf der Deutschen Uhrenstraße.'' Silberburg Verlag GmbH, Tübingen 2017. . (Stationen an der Deutschen Uhrenstraße). ''(in German)''

External links

Website of the German Clock Road

Notes and references

{{Reflist, 2 German tourist routes Clocks in Germany Black Forest