Where is the Black Forest?
You’ll find it in the southwest German state of Baden-Wurttemberg. The low mountains which make up the Black Forest push against the borders of Switzerland and France up along the Rhine River which separates Germany from France Alsace (See White Wines of Kings – Alsace Wine Road) from Lorrach (See Burg Rötteln) in the south to Karlsruhe in the north. Cuckoo clocks we’re invented by clocksmiths of the Black Forest region and carried to other lands virtually on the backs of walking vendors and are still made there today. The world’s biggest cuckoo clock in the world according to the Guiness Book is at the Eble Clock Park and German Clock Museum in Triberg where examples of the local craft can be admired or bought for gifts or souvenirs (see also Max Krug Cuckoo Clocks Munich). The Black Forest became known around the world as a tourist destination in the late 1800’s when the gentry class of princes and industrial age barons of industry began coming to the Casino in Baden-Baden, the grand
