authentic black forest cuckoo clocks

10 reasons we've fallen for Germany

Forget commercial pretzels, the real thing is the perfect snack and varies according to region. Some say the design recreates arms crossed in prayer; in Bad Urach, they insist a and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.” Orson Welles was ...

Win a cuckoo clock!

We are giving away a cuckoo clock from the Black Forest. Just write to us! Cuckoo clock. Discover Germany is giving away a real Black Forest cuckoo clock made by the Herr company. This family owned business in the Black Forest town of Triberg has been ...

Creature Comforts: The Vermont Country Store Catalog

More importantly, they were things I actually wanted, and which I added studiously to my Christmas list: garlic shampoo, a Black Forest cuckoo clock, shortbread in a wooden box, Princess Diana's favorite Bluebell perfume, Musher's Secret paw wax for ...

Germany, Off the Beaten Path

The cuckoo clock has a long tradition in the Black forest and the Rombach and Haas clocks has a history going back to 1894. Handmade from beginning to end, and in their fourth generation of clock makers, the design of these timepieces range from ...

Gasthaus gives plenty of reasons to indulge

It is a wonderland of German memorabilia, photographs of the Greipel family proprietors, antiques, a cuckoo clock, servers in dirndls and, most importantly, whimsical mini-facades of chalets that divide the dining room into sections. Annemarie Greipel ...

Protesters Call for Closing of CPD Site on West Side

Protesters gathered Saturday outside a Chicago Police Department facility on the West Side, calling for it to be shut down following reports in the British newspaper The Guardian that described it as a “black site” where officers violate suspects' rights....

The United States of Corporate Welfare

Which company got the most targeted tax breaks, subsidies, and grants in the state where you live? Jason Keisling & Nick Gillespie| Mar. 11, 2015 2:00 pm. -. -. -. -. Spritz. Infographic reason infographic. Click ...

Lies for Lullabies

My alarm clock decides it wants to sing an annoying high pitched song ... I follow moms footsteps to the trash can and then notice they lead into the forest. ‘Why would she go there?’ I think with a furrowed brow as I begin trudging through the snow ...

Opossum Blood vs. Russell’s Vipers; Wildfires Could Be Blowin’ in the Wind

In real life ... our state’s top-notch forest fire service from completing its program of prescribed burns. Those are done to essentially pre-burn high-risk wooded areas, where humans and flora intermix/collide. The clock on prescribed burns ran out ...

MUSIC: Suddenly, a forest of festivals

Comedians on the bill include Joel McHale and Lewis Black. The festival is also promising high-end ... a lot of them are going to fail,” ,” Brooks said. “That will be the real retraction, when people start to lose money.” Country superstar Toby ...

Meet Britain's most obsessive collectors

My brother and I still restore clocks, it's our main form of income. Funnily enough people from the Black Forest in Germany, where the cuckoo clocks we know today were originally made, still send their clocks to us for restoration. Now that we are both in ...