Exploring the Black Forest town of Triberg 🇩🇪

Exploring the Black Forest town of Triberg 🇩🇪

We’re in Enkenbach right now. We stopped to get some food. But now we’re on our way to the Black Forest. It’s about a three hour drive. The origin of the cuckoo clocks. It’s going to be fun. We’re in the Black Forest now, right in front of the world’s biggest cuckoo clock.

And now we’re going to Triberg which is like the gateway to the Black Forest, I guess. We’ll see you over in Triberg. Apparently, Black Forest Ham comes from here. Makes sense. So we’re going to go look for some Black Forest Ham.

This is where we’re going to see if they have some Black Forest Ham. So we ordered our food but we heard there’s a really cool statue over here, So we’re gonna go check it out. So I ended up getting bratwurst instead because the ham is cold, apparently.

I didn’t know if they did it warm or what but we’re just going to go to the deli afterwards and try the ham. So I ended up just getting the bratwurst and she just got fries because it’s really expensive. I’m going to eat fries because it’s an almost-€30-a-plate place.

It’s around here somewhere. Here it is. Oh, it’s a water fountain. Oh, you can drink water. ‘Trinkwasser’ Unfortunately, the sun is right behind it, so you can’t get a good view of it. On Shrove Tuesday night a remarkable spectacle can be experienced when a torchlight procession of 400 devils passes through Triberg.

That would be cool to come on Shrove Tuesday. We finished our food and we’re heading to the waterfall now, the Triberg Waterfall. We are. We made it on the trail that’s going to take us to the waterfall.

We have no idea how long it is, but apparently it’s not too bad. So we’ll see you at the waterfall. It’s… We’re tired already. I’m tired already. Yeah, we’ve been climbing some steep hills just to get to this spot. Made it to the waterfall.

We’re going to go a little bit higher up there and see if we can get a better vantage point of it up there. We just got off the trail. We’re back into Triberg and there’s this beautiful church right here.

I have no idea what it’s called but Kassandra really wants to go inside of it. I’m so desperate for going inside of it. Also, look at that lamp. That’s cool. – The lamp with the little moss on top. – Yeah. What’s happening? What’s happening? Wow. Wow. That was intense.

So now we’re going into the church to check it out. – I’m pretty sure that’s locked. – You guys, I think it’s locked. Look at the key hole though. There’s nothing there to look at but you can see through it. Did you just fart? I heard that. We all heard that.

We all heard that. I hit that brick but whatever. Let’s go to the front. Maybe the front has an entrance. Okay, let’s see this one. Well, that’s all she wrote. – Beautiful. – Beautiful. We’re going to figure out what that hat means though.

Because your mom said we’re going to figure out before this trip ends. – Oh, yeah, so this hat…. – …either means married or single. So we don’t know but this hat either means, yeah, they’re married or they’re, like,

– looking for marriage or something, you know? – But I think it means… – By that picture, I feel like it means single. – Single? Yeah, I think it means single, too. We met up with my mom and we’re going to try Black Forest cake.

It looks like we’re going to try this one, The Original Black Forest Cake with cherry water (alcohol) This guy right here. This is the Black Forest cake. – How is it? – You can definitely taste the alcohol. – For sure. – Really? Is it strong? It’s like whiskey. Is it whiskey?

– It taste like whiskey. – I don’t know but it’s good. – I made a mess. – Ehh, it happens. I’m over it. That was a big ass piece of cake. I agree. – Can you imagine if we all got one like that? – Oh, hell no. Hell…

If there was more chocolate, I would for sure finish it. – The crust is kind of good. – I like it with the whipped cream. I like it, too. All right. We just finished the cake. How did you like it? I really… I liked it. It was, like…

– I don’t like cherries and it was– – You don’t like cherries? I don’t like cherry filling. I like maraschino cherries on ice cream, but I don’t like– It had some of those. No, it didn’t have maraschino cherries on it, it had cherry, like, jam with cherries.

Which I didn’t love because it, like, fills me up too much. But with ice cream, it’s good. But, like, not with that. But I liked it. For me, who never eats sweets, and she can attest… When do I eat sweets? I wish he would, but he never really does.

Yeah, I decided to try it because Black Forest cake in Black Forest, you have to try it. It’s a must. I ate, like, what, nine… I had, like, nine or ten bites. €5 for the entire slice. That was a really good deal. That was an amazing deal for a touristy place.

But my opinion, as someone who doesn’t like sweets… it was good. We’re just walking to the end of the street here, the busy street because we’re only going to be here once. So we want to get the experience of just kind of seeing the whole street

And then we’re going to go to… back over there, there’s the House of 1000 Clocks. Tomorrow, we’re going to the Eltz Castle! Tomorrow, we’re going to the Eltz Castle! See you then. We’re going into the House of 1000 Clocks now to see what they have to offer. This one is €3,000.

This one is €5,000. €5,000. And this one’s half the price. €2,500? €2,300. So this one is officially the most expensive one that I’ve seen. €12,000. Kassandra bought me this cute little owl. Because he loves owls. He has an owl on his chest right here.

I do. I love owls. It’s so cu– What’s over there? She’s taking pictures over there. Should we look? Let’s look. But now we’re heading back to Sembach, so we’ll see you later. Bye.

Chapters:
00:00 Day 12: Enkenbach-Alsenborn
00:34 Day 12: World’s biggest cuckoo clock
01:01 Day 12: Triberg im Schwarzwald
02:37 Day 12: Triberg Waterfalls (Triberger Wasserfälle)
04:19 Day 12: Never did find out what the Bollenhut is used for
04:32 Day 12: Trying Black Forest cake
06:49 Day 12: House of 1000 Clocks (Haus der 1000 Uhren)

BELOW IS WHAT IS WRITTEN ON THE SIGN IN ENKENBACH-ALSENBORN:

“The story of the plowing elephant Sam…

There are many tales and stories about Alsenborn and its circus tradition. Many of these stories are true and some of them have been made up by fanciful storytellers but all the tales date back to bygone times of this romantic circus tradition. However, those days were also characterized by poverty and deprivation.

The most famous story dating back to those days – more precisely back to1917 – is the story of an elephant called Sam. The owners of the elephant were the Moulier family, actually their real name was Müller. The family lived in a beautiful villa with sandstone ornaments and a large garden. The male members of the family had been called up for military service; while fleeing to Alsenborn after performing in France the circus had to be dissolved. Only the beautiful daughter of the family, Carola, and two elephants were left over. One of the elephants was called Sam.

The story began when Carola had to dig the garden. There were hardly any horses available as farmers needed them to work in the fields. A carpenter called Schmitt had an idea; Sam could pull the plow and harrow. Carola had some doubts but in a very short time the garden had been plowed even though the elephant went on the rampage afterwards and pulled down a gate post made of sandstone.

Back home the carpenter told his wife what had happened and she thought about employing the elephant to plant potatoes as working in the fields called “Simonsflur” was very hard and the elephant would be a very good solution. Carola agreed and equipped with a strong leather strap Sam started the job. Everyone, especially the children, was watching this spectacle.

After the fields called “Simonsflur“ had been plowed Sam wanted to reward himself for the work and, attracted by the corn, he walked majestically through the neighboring fields. When he reached the next field he pulled out turnips. Thus, for carpenter Schmitt the work of the elephant turned out to be very expensive as he had to pay for the damage.

By the way, the elephants of the Moulier family did not survive the First World War. Even though school children fed them with an apple or a piece of bread here and there the elephants died of hunger. However, the plowing elephant Sam lives on in this partly bizarre story of the circus in Alsenborn.

Von: Dirk A. Leibfried, Kaiserslautern, übersetzt von Gabriele Schäfer, Heidelberg”