7,000) which 35 years ago did a Matterhorn-sized makeover aimed at turning what was then a dying lead and zinc mining community into "the Bavarian town in the Rockies." So too, it seems, is the unusual history of this tiny town (pop. "It must be the belt," local fix-it man Tony Schwarzenberger says later when told that Hans appears to be on his last lederhosened legs. Suddenly, what sounds like a badly scratched record crackles to life and a Bavarian tune blasts the length of the Platzl as Hans – beer stein firmly in hand – belatedly comes out to play. Even the young girl who has just put a quarter in the clock and has been waiting patiently for its tiny wooden door to swing open seems ready to give up and head for the hills. It's late afternoon and there's hardly a soul on Kimberley's pedestrian-only main street, the Platzl. But then, so has this former mining town and Hans' humble home, touted as the biggest cuckoo clock in the world. House of Black Forest Clocks, Landstraße 7, 78132 Hornberg: This one has most beautiful clock with the most spectacular show of well-curved numerous figures of human and animals.KIMBERLEY, B.C.–Happy Hans has definitely seen happier days. The cuckoo and the figures are much more interesting and detailed, with much better animation ģ. Weltgrosste Kuckucksuhr Eble Uhrenpark at Schonachbach 27 (actually the picture of this location is by mistake on top of article about Untertalstr.28): this is big shop but also one can see the mechanism inside.
The main big picture on top of this article also belongs to another location Ģ. A primitive rough carving with primitive limited movements of figures. Weltgrosste Kuckucksuhr at Untertalstr.28, Shonahh: if short - this is a bubble. We'll try to explain, to help other travellers to avoid wasting of time:ġ. Names are similar and locatiosn are near to each other, but qualities are different. After spending several days in Triberg and around especially to see the Kuckuclocks, we can state that there is a big confusion with the names and locations of Kuckucloks.
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