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Furtwangen is a small city located in the Black Forest region of south western Germany. It belongs to the district (Kreis) of Schwarzwald-Baar along with the two more important cities of Villingen and Schwenningen.
Furtwangen is a city with an industrial past: the manufacturing of cuckoo clocks. This industry was very important in previous centuries, but with the appearance of the quartz watch this branch of the economy is now almost gone.
Now Furtwangen is a city with a more balanced industry, there are many small and medium-sized industrial companies focused in microelectronics and precision mechanics.
There is a technical university Fachhochschule Furtwangen with a stream from the mountains flowing down in the middle of the campus; this university specialises in microelectronics and precision mechanics (and other faculties), and beside one of the university entrances is the German Clock Museum (Deutsches Uhrenmuseum) with many ancient and modern clocks and watches on display.
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