World's largest cuckoo clock, Schonach im Schwarzwald, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

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Weltgrösste Kuckucksuhr

The Black Forest


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 clockmaker Joseph Dold three years to build by hand. A Dold family member is usually around to explain the mechanism.


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