About our region

History

After having built solid and reliable houses, the farmer families in Black Forest started to use the long winter time together with the plenty available wood to invent tricky mechanical devices.

This is a clock which is over 200 years old, with a clockwork made nearly completely out of wood. Visit the German Clock Museum Furtwangen.

This is a cuckoo clock with carved front, as it is still sold today as a typical souvenir from Black Forest.

Nowadays the industry in Black Forest is highly diversified and concentrating on high precision mechanics of high quality metal and synthetic materials, e. g. for automotive applications.

Location

The Black Forest is a woody highland with mountains separating the European rain between the North Sea (Rhine/Rhein River) and the Black Sea (Danube/Donau River).

Furtwangen is located top of the Black Forest at an altitude between 800m and 1100m near the spring of the Danube/Donau River.

The region around South West Germany contains headquarters of many well known companies with worldwide activities in the automobile, semiconductor, software and pharmaceutical industry.

In Furtwangen and the region 50km around – especially including Freiburg –
several world class semiconductor research facilities are located.