The first cuckoo clock came from Schönwald ...!
Who constructed the first cuckoo clock, is controversial. Markus Fidelis Jaeck claimed 1810, that in the early 1730s Franz Anton Ketterer from Schönwald produced the first cuckoo clock.

As early as the mid-17th Century was the well known mechanical cuckoo. A century later, the first cuckoo clocks have been seen in the Black Forest. Built in little houses with carved fronts, the cuckoo clock was a popular souvenir in the second half of the 19th Century . Abroad, the cuckoo clock is a symbol not only for Germany, but also wrongly for Switzerland and Austria.

Manufacturing of clocks
More than 200 years ago in the high located areas of the Black Forest the industry of clock production started. Almost on every farm parts for the clocks have been produced.
On one farm they built the boxes, another farmer's family took care of the manufacture and painting of shields for the clocks. In the next farm, the mechanical parts have been produced or assembled. In most winters the farms were cut off from the rest of the world in deep snow. To make a little bit of extra money, the farmers started this business by manufacturing the clocks, because the winters were hard and very long.

German Museum of Clocks Furtwangen