Started in 1849 by Eduard Hauser as a small Black Forest workshop making pinions etc., for clocks.
In 1851 this became the Aktien Gesellschaft fur Uhrenfabrikation, one of the first of the Black Forest clock factories.
Lenzkirch always produced quality clocks with what are called in Germany, massiv movements. They eventually priced themselves out of the market which was demanding ever cheaper clocks and they were taken over by Junghans in 1928. The factory closed in 1932 during the depression.