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Cuckoo clock, a so-called Jagdstück ("hunt piece"), Black Forest, c. 1900, Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, Inv. 2006-013. A cuckoo clock is a type of clock, typically pendulum driven, that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo call and has an automated cuckoo bird that moves with each note. Some move their wings and open and close their ...
Friedrich Eisenlohr. Jakob Friedrich Eisenlohr (23 November 1805, in Lörrach – 27 February 1854, in Karlsruhe) was a German architect and university professor. His design for a cuckoo clock, now known as the Bahnhäusle (train station) style, was the first to be mass-produced and helped make the clocks popular outside of Germany.
He was the first to equip a Bahnhäusle style clock case with a cuckoo mechanism in 1854. A milestone in the Black Forest clock history, after this cuckoo clocks became popular and marketed worldwide. Indeed, although the Bahnhäusle style creator, Friedrich Eisenlohr, had proposed a cuckoo clock in his 1850 original design, however it was not ...
The heart core of Black forest clock production was an area that extended from Triberg via Furtwangen to St. Peter. In 1850, the Duchy of Baden founded the first school for clockmakers in Furtwangen in order to improve the standard of production and make it more efficient. Several times of crisis followed.
The brand Gustav Becker. The brand was created in 1899, and in 1930 it merged with Junghans, a large clockmaker in Schramberg, Baden-Württemberg, in southwestern Germany. After the Second World War, the Gustav Becker factory's location was transferred from Germany to Poland, and clock production there ceased. Junghans continued to exist in ...
Arthur Junghans (1852–1920), German clockmaker, Schramberg, founder of Junghans. Curt Dietzschold (1852–1922), German engineer, watchmaker and teacher, director of the watchmaking school Karlstein a. d. Th. (Austria). Gustav Speckhart (1852–1919), German clockmaker of the court, inventor and clock collector, Nürnberg.