Twelve years and $50,000 later, the enormous outdoor clock was finished. It is in Sugarcreek in Tuscarawas County Ohio The Alpine Alpa restaurant in Wilmot, Ohio commissioned clockmaker Karl Schleutermann to build the world's largest cuckoo clock in 1963. This historical marker was erected in 2015 by Village of Sugarcreek, The Ohio History Connection. Village leaders and community members returned the clock to working condition and placed it on display for all to enjoy. The clock was moved to its new home in May 2012. The restaurant closed two years later, and the owner of the local store Walnut Creek Cheese purchased the clock and donated it to the Village of Sugarcreek. After exposure to Ohio's weather for 30 years, Hampton Hotel's "Save-A-Landmark" program helped to restore the cuckoo clock to operating condition in 2007. It was featured on the cover of the "Guinness Book of World Records" in 1978. The Alpine Alpa restaurant in Wilmot, Ohio commissioned clockmaker Karl Schleutermann to build the world's largest cuckoo clock in 1963.
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