Haus der 1000 Uhren

The Black Forest


A glockenspiel bashes out melodies and a cuckoo greets his fans with a hopelessly croaky squawk on the hour at the kitschy House of 1000 Clocks, a wonderland of clocks from traditional to trendy. The latest quartz models feature a sensor that sends the cuckoo to sleep after dark!


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby The Black Forest attractions

1. Triberger Wasserfälle

0.24 MILES

Niagara they ain’t but Germany’s highest waterfalls do exude their own wild romanticism. The Gutach River feeds the seven-tiered falls, which drop a total…

2. Weltgrösste Kuckucksuhr

0.95 MILES

A rival to the hotly contested giant-cuckoo-clock crown, the so-called 'world's oldest-largest cuckoo clock' kicked into gear in 1980 and took local…

3. Eble Uhren–Park

1.37 MILES

The Guinness World Records–listed world's largest cuckoo clock occupies an entire house, but is mostly a gimmick to lure shoppers inside a large clock…

4. Stöcklewaldturm

2.99 MILES

A steady and attractive 6.5km walk through spruce forest and pastures from Triberg's waterfall brings you to this 1070m-high 19th-century lookout tower,…

5. Martinskapelle

4.18 MILES

Named after the tiny chapel at the head of the Breg Valley, Martinskapelle attracts cross-country skiers to its forested trails in winter and hikers when…

6. Duravit Design Centre

5.38 MILES

If giant cuckoo clocks and Black Forest gateau no longer thrill, how about a trip to the world’s largest loo? Drive on the B33 to Hornberg and there, in…

7. Vogtsbauernhof

9.94 MILES

The Schwarzwälder Freilichtmuseum spirals around the Vogtsbauernhof, a self-contained early-17th-century farmstead. Farmhouses shifted from their original…

8. Franziskaner Museum

11.5 MILES

Next to the 13th-century Riettor gate tower and occupying a former Franciscan monastery, the Franziskaner Museum skips merrily through Villingen’s history…

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