We are an Authorized Seller for Anton Schneider, Hoenes and Hubert Herr. We deal only with cuckoo clocks imported direct from the Black Forest region in Germany.
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We only ship to the United States and Canada now due to extreme cost in Shipping.
All of our Clocks are Hand Carved by the Finest Craftsman in the Black Forest Region of Germany.
Video of a Schneider Cuckoo Clock
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A story of Anton Schneider
Anton Schneider began producing cuckoo clocks in 1848 in his farmhouse in Schooner. The business is now in the 6th generation and has been producing high value cuckoo clocks at its current location since 1952.
In the years between 1952 an 1985 the modern factory building was extended in 7 periods of building. Our clock factory is today among the most modern and largest cuckoo clock factories in the Black Forest. In spite of this, the old tradition of doing valuable carving work by hand has been maintained and in the last few years even greatly improved. This required intensive training of young woodcarvers under our direction.
Today the characteristics of the new generation of high-value to cuckoo clocks. Thanks to our highly skilled workers in the carpentry shop, the woodcarving shop and in the clock assembly shops, as well as an extremely exact final inspection, it is possible for us to offer our customers worldwide a truly full guarantee.
Our company employs highly qualified workers, most of whom have worked for us for the last 20 to 40 years. Every worker is specialized in the quality production of high value cuckoo clocks. This is emphasized by our leading position in the production of cuckoo clocks with music and dancing figurines as well as those with moving scenes and hand carved figurines.
The sales program contains more than 300 cuckoo clock models from 19 cm to 300 cm and in 9 different color tones.
The first cuckoo clocks made in the Black Forest
It is not clear who built the first cuckoo clocks in theBlack Forest but there is unanimity that the unusual clock with the bird call very quickly conquered the region. Already by the middle of the eighteenth century, several small clockmaking shops produced cuckoo clocks with wooden gears. So the first Black Forest cuckoo clocks were created between 1740 and 1750. They had hand-painted shields.
It is hard to judge how large the proportion of cuckoo clocks was among the total production of modern movement Black Forest clocks. Based on the proportions of pieces surviving to the present, it must have been a small fraction of the total production.
About its murky origins, there are two main fables from the first two chroniclers of Black Forest horology which tell contradicting stories about the origin of the cuckoo clock
The first is from Father Franz Steyrer, written in his Geshichte der Schwarzwälder Uhrmacherkunst" (History of Clockmaking in the Black Forest) in 1796. He describes a meeting between two clock peddlers from Furtwangen (Black Forest) who met a travelling Bohemian merchant who sold wooden cuckoo clocks.Both the Furtwangen traders were so excited that they bought one. On bringing it home they copied it and showed their imitation to other Black Forest clock traders. Its popularity grew in the region and more and more clockmakers started producing them. With regard to this chronicle, the historian Adolf Kistner claimed in his book "Die Schwarzwälder Uhr" (The Black Forest Clock) published in 1927, that there is not any Bohemian cuckoo clock in existence to verify the thesis that this clock was used as a sample to copy and produce Black Forest cuckoo clocks Bohemia had no fundamental clockmaking industry during this period.
The second story is related by another priest, Markus FidelisJäck, in a passage from his report "Darstellungen aus der Industrie und des Verkehrs aus dem Schwarzwald" (Description of Industry and Commerce of the Black Forest), (1810): "The cuckoo clock was invented (in 1730) by a clock-master (Franz Anton Ketterer) from Schönwald (Black Forest).This craftsman adorned a clock with a moving bird that announced the hour with the cuckoo-call. The clock-master got the idea of how to make the cuckoo-call from the bellows of a church organ". As time went on, the second version became the more popular, and is the one generally related today. Unfortunately, neither Steyrer nor Jäck quote any sources for their claims, making them unverifiable.
The Hubert Herr History
Already at the beginning of the 19th century, the two brothers Andreas and Christian HERR, born in 1812 and 1814, were making cuckoo clocks in a farmhouse nearby the town of Triberg in the Black Forest of Germany. This skill and the know-how about making of cuckoo clocks has then been passed on to the next generation, Eduard HERR.
He was the one who then moved from outside of Triberg downtown, bought land and built his workshop on Nussbacherstrasse. His son HUBERT HERR continued the work of Eduard HERR, bought additional land in the middle of Triberg, Hauptstrasse 8, which is still now the home of the company, enlarged the workshop and moved upwards step by step. HUBERT HERR was a master woodcarver and all wooden cuckoo clock cases and carvings were already made in those days in the small factory and workshop.
HUBERT HERR had five children and they all worked at the factory and workshop. Production increased from year to year and already in those days the cuckoo clocks were shipped to many countries around the world. Today the HUBERT HERR cuckoo clock factory is managed by the 5th generation, Klaus HERR, Reinhard HERR and Hugo HERR. Worldknown, HUBERT HERR cuckoo clocks are of finest quality and workmanship. HUBERT HERR is the only manufacturer of cuckoo clocks in Germany making the movements, carvings and also the clock cases in its own premises.
Due to this set-up of the important parts of the clock made in their own factory, with constant quality control throughout the manufacturing process, HUBERT HERR can supply to the customers in more than 60 countries of the world a high quality product, all made by skilled craftsmen in the Black Forest of Germany.
All clocks are made out of solid wood and are guaranteed handcarved. Inside they have the finest mechanical movements, weight driven to preserve the traditional way of making and presenting these Original Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks.
What country did cuckoo clocks originate from?
The cuckoo clock actually originated in the Black Forest area of Southern Germany, when a clockmaker named Franz Ketterer made the first one.
The reason the Swiss are associated with it is because after the bombings of the world wars, many of the German workshops were destroyed and Swiss clockmakers began making the cuckoo clock a tradition they have carried on to this day. You can also blame Orson Wells: In 1949 he wrote in his spy novel "The Third Man: "In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce?
The cuckoo clock Ever since, readers have been talking about the Swiss cuckoo clock. Be that as it may, cuckoo clocks are apopular Swiss souvenir and you will find them in most souvenir shops. Just make sure to shop around, as a little bit of.
