Friday, May 24, 2013
This afternoon we went to the Black Forest to see a "farm museum" and a cuckoo clock maker. And also to have Black Forest cake. ;-)
The drive into the Black Forest was beautiful, the higher we went the more conifer trees we saw, along with charming farmhouses set in little glens with cows in the pastures. The farm museum or Vogtsbauerhof was actually a group of historic farmhouses set together in a little village. One of the houses was originally built in the 1700's and the last inhabitant was a 90 year old lady who lived there until 1964! This house was over 200 years old and had very few of the conveniences that we take for granted every day. It had a straw roof that was about 2 feet thick and one stove for heating and cooking. The various houses in the village were furnished with things that would have been used every day by the people who lived there.
We left the farm and headed to the clockmaker's shop where the clockmaker came out to greet us and to start the mechanism of the house-sized cuckoo clock he had built next to his shop. It had all kinds of figures that moved and doors that opened, it even had a chimney sweep that popped up out of the chimney! We went inside and watched him carving wooden clock parts and looked at the amazing variety of clocks on display. Black Forest cake was offered to everyone and it was absolutely delicious, lots of cherries and cream - yum!
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