The world’s largest cuckoo clock houses a cuckoo that is 14 feet long and weighs 330 pounds. The construction of the clock, found in Eble Uhren-Park, Triberg, Germany, was based on a 100-year-old cuckoo clock, but at a scale of 60 to 11! The clock is 15 feet tall and weighs 6 tons while the pendulum is 26 feet long and weighs 220 pounds, earning the clock a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records. Visitors can walk inside the clock to see the impressive mechanics in action and hear it chime twice an hour.
The huge clock in Triberg is now a magnet for visitors. While for a long time cuckoo clocks were considered the epitome of parochialism and kitsch, these days something of a cult has grown up around them. Whether with carved wooden figures, plain and linear or colorful and trendy, they are now more widely sought-after than any other souvenir, especially among foreign tourists. When they take a Black Forest cuckoo clock home with them, they’re taking a little of piece of Germany too.
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