Giant Clocktower Comes Alive Twice a Day With Knights Jousting—But Watch What Happens at the End

Illustration by The Epoch Times, Public Domain, Courtesy of City of Munich

The wonderful echoes of bells in town square at noon cause the flavor of the schnitzel to taste just right—a Munich Glockenspiel operator would say.

A few bells broken or missing, or whose sound is askew due to winter cold exposure or the Bavarian summer heat, might not bother the locals let alone the many tourists; but the operators of this 10-story cuckoo clock are deeply in tune with its inner workings. To hear it meet either of its two daily appointments slightly out of tune, to them, is unsettling.