"The German watch-and-clock-making industry is generally considered as a crisis industry, which prepares problems for its traditional location regions. "in addition, *1Die watch-and-clock-making industry in the Black Forest is an example of a steeped in tradition handicraft art due to its specialization "["Â…]mono monoindustrielle and thus susceptible economic structures to expect let be maintained ground "*2, however nevertheless in times of the globalization and the automated manufacturing processes in a niche can.

Beginnings of the clock production in the Black Forest

The beginnings of the black forests clock production are appropriate in the center 17. Century. While the first clocks were aligned to the practical use still plain and, with the increasing popularity of these black forests speciality also beyond the national borders, the number sheets became ever more artful and clock sign. After the excessive quantity originally as plagiarism of clocks made, developed itself clocks of the Black Forest to a firm term, in particular those world-wide well-known Kuckucksuhr (in that today form admitted however only 1854 developed). Center of the black forests clock production was the region of tri mountain over ford cheeks to pc. Peter (high Black Forest). In addition in the context of a structure promotion the federal state government of Baden created the first German Uhrmacherschule in the year 1850 in ford cheeks, in order to guarantee to the small craftsmen good training and to increase thus the sales prospects. It came again and again nevertheless to crises. Center 19. Century changed one also into the watch-and-clock-making industry for mass production. At the innovativsten was however the American armaments industry, which turned after the end of the war of secession to the clock production and which German clock producer removed market shares. Beginning 20. Century had the watch-and-clock-making industry a bloom time, which changed however with the First World War and the following omission of the Russian market to a crisis. Only after the Second World War it came by the export need which can be retrieved to a recovery.

Recent history

Also during the seventies led the introduction from plastic housings and quartz clock works to serious cut. The new procedures needed a dramatically smaller work expended and strengthened besides the competition from developing countries. Also the introduction of LCD wrist-watches turned out as heavy load. The employment figure of the black forests watch-and-clock-making industry sagged between 1973 and 1976 of 28.600 to 21.000. "The export-intensive German watch-and-clock-making industry saw itself general ["Â…] confronted with problems, those from glaring rate of exchange fluctuations, v.a. in relation to the dollar, economic situation break-downs, competition from cheap wage countries as well as from the acceleration of technological paging result [t] to EN. "*3

Current situation

Despite all adversities the watch-and-clock-making industry in the Black Forest in one - although small - can hold itself niche. Within the range of the wrist-watches the majority of the market the qualitatively superior Swiss competitor and the cheap competition from the Far East had to be left. Within the range of the grossuhren and clocks particularly liked in the USA "larva applies into the Black Forest "however further as quality seal of first class. This dependence on the export into the United States saves however further the danger of the exchange rate fluctuations, and the dollar up-to-date weak opposite the euro is not a load which can be underestimated.

See also

• Black forests clock
• Kuckucksuhr
• Lacquer sign clock

The German clock museum in ford cheeks in the Black Forest

Kuckucksuhren on-line Shop from beautiful forest

Literature

• Liehl, E. /Sick, W. - D. (Hrsg.) (1989): The Black Forest. Contributions to regional studies. the Alemann. Inst. 47) Freiburg 4.A.
• Mohr, Bernhard/lyra, Klaus (1988): Marketing areas under adjustment pressure - describes by the example black forests

Watch-and-clock-making industry area. In: Regio Basiliensis 24. Jg., H.3, S.179-194.

• • From this taken quotations: *1. P. 179, Z. 1-2; *2. P. 179, Z. 5-6; *3. P. 180, Z. 1-4

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