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The YouTube page includes a German transcript. I ran that through Google Translate and I'm attaching the resulting English text, lightly edited.
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The time monument, at least on the Deister in brief.
With the town hall building, a system was created through the radial
arrangement of the porch passages that does not let the view from the entrance
of the main building lead into the void, but rather points to the center of the
town.
Looking through the main portal, we see the double helix the growth and decay
of life in the ascent and descent of the spiral, and at the tip, the pulsation
of our heart as the motor of life symbolizing people.
The directional fan of the city's names indicates the location as a pool of the
earth beneath us, the geographical location.
The view through the eastern passageway ends in the 16-rayed, four-stage stair
star of the astronomical moment of time with a diameter of 6.5 m.
A coincidence brought me into the possession of the altar producer of St.
Michael's Church in Hildesheim.
The stones were sawn and cut into the steps of the octagonal, four-stage star.
have thus found a worthy reuse.
In the following, I would like to explain this time monument to you.
The base plate with a diameter of 2.5 m On the fourth step of the stair star is
a base plate with a stainless steel frame, which serves as a cover plate,
showing a cross shape.
It is the drawing of the stone engraving from Bornholm with the 16-part
calendar of the Germanic tribes. The stainless steel frame shows 56 names of
astronomy and timekeeping, as well as a dedication to unnamed and unknown
scholars, as well as a dedication from the builder and his wife.
Next comes the footplate with a diameter of 1.5 meters. The footplate is also
equipped with a stainless steel frame. This frame bears 18 images from
timekeeping and astronomy up to the present day, including the moon landing and
Nail Armstrong's small step.
You will find the Neolithic calendar stone from the merchants' table from Kanak
in Brittany. With lunar and solar calendar explanation Stonehenge is also
familiar with its 56 upper holes for determining lunar and solar eclipses. It
was built in 3000 BC before the construction of the pyramids in Egypt.
The cover plate of the sundial base bears a view of the Earth with its southern
hemisphere spread out. Time zones have been introduced since 1893. It is shown
there with the hourly shift and a pointer for noon and midnight. This is
followed by the solar rune calendar with the 12 names of the parts of the year.
For 1,000 years, the runes were the script in Germanic regions, the futag,
which was used in 16 and 24 parts. The next ring shows the Gregorian calendar,
which is used today. It has a rotating weekday ring, with a normal year and
leap year division. It is a perpetual calendar. The moon ring, also rotating,
shows the conditions in the night sky, the lunar calendar with the months and
phases. A day hand enables detachment.
The Neolithic calendar shows a special feature - it shows 16 sonatas, three
sonatas of 22 days and 13 sonatas of 23 days with an eight-day week. This
calendar was used at the time of the early hour. The number 8 has been
preserved in our memory when we say I'll be there in eight days, meaning the
seven-day week we are based on today. The names for the sonatas are still
unknown and are still being researched.
Furthermore, the 56 upper holes in Stonehenge allow the symbols for the moon,
sun, and nodes to be placed. According to a plan by Mr. Milz, these symbols are
arranged so that when the three meet in a line with the center of the cover
plate, they indicate the earth, moon, and solar eclipses.
The moon moves two holes to the left every day, the sun moves two holes to the
left every 13 days, and the node moves three holes to the right every year.
This system by Mr. Robert Mills works with three symbols compared to six
symbols according to Mr. Hawkins.
I try to compensate for the differences in Mr. Mails by using special steps
according to the Neolithic calendar. A conversion to the Hawkins method is also
possible. Errors in the process must be corrected by making corrections on
specific days of the year, as is also done with other calendars.
I am trying to solve this problem by better observing the position of the
symbols above the center. To be able to do this, a front sight is mounted in a
central ring and the globe serves as a georgian three feet for the Platonic
Cube are attached to the cover plate.
The south-facing foot carries a surface as a shadow caster this is aligned
parallel to the Earth's axis and shows the true local time on the cover plate
between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
The Platonic Cube, with an edge length of 74 cm, forms the further component in
this device. The southern face of the Platonic Cube shows the master clock. The
shadow rod, adjusted parallel to the Earth's axis, with the gilded symbol,
shows not only time as true tone time, but also sunrise, sunset, and the length
of the day.
The zodiac signs in the old way as they have been known since their creation
with the curves and the horizontal for the equinox.
The reading is designed as a transverse graduation to ensure the most accurate
reading possible. To achieve great accuracy, half a minute can be read without
difficulty. The graph of the equation of time is located above the shadow
stick. You can read the value indicated by the curve on the calendar. If plus,
the number of minutes must be added to the read time, and if minus, it must be
subtracted.
Since the shadow display is divided by the true time zone, the correction by
the read equation of time results in CET, Central European Time, as shown on
our clocks or quartz watches. We have had time zone time since 1893. Central
European Time is based on the 15th longitude east, which passes through
Görlitz. Here at our location, the Earth must rotate by 21 minutes and 42
seconds until we can measure the sun at its highest point.
This is the deviation from the time zone meridian; it is included in the clock
faces. The equation of time is a correction that is necessary to ensure
uniformity. To obtain the mean sun as indicated by the wheel clocks. Our Earth
is influenced by external and internal gravitational forces on its elliptical
orbit around the sun, so that in November, near the sun, it moves 16.4 minutes
too fast.
In February, it slows down and moves 14.2 minutes too slowly. These errors in
summer are at most six minutes, which are compensated for by the corrections.
Using the formula CET equals wcz, which is true local time plus the equation of
time, the true local time can be read.
The digits of standard time are marked by double circles, while the digits of
daylight saving time, as an artificial time, only have one circle as a border.
The east and west clocks are similarly designed for the morning and afternoon
hours. Here, too, the transverse division was even used for the solar calendar.
The shadow rod is clamped onto sturdy columns and reliably shows the time even
in the solar walls.
The equinox forms the axis for measuring hours and days. An adjustable light
slit in a sun symbol sends the light beam at true noon onto a receiving arc
that is placed on the dials and shows the day of the calendar. Explanatory
drawings allow the seasons to be identified by the tilt of the Earth's axis and
thus the different positions of the polar caps.
The northern clock shows the early and late hours of the day as usual. The
geographical data of the location, as well as a diagram of the Earth's annual
cycle with the Earth's position and thus the origin of the seasons, serve as
information.
The second Kepler planet is set by the hatched areas. It also explains the
eccentricity of the Earth's elliptical orbit and shows an aspect of the
equation of time.
A sun symbol with a viewing window and the time of the local meridian passage
completes the image of the northern clock. The surrounding buildings and
vegetation, however, will cast a full shadow where the northern clock does not
allow it. It remains with the theory of order.
The horizontal clock is arranged on the cube. It shows the Babylonian and
Italian hours. While our current counting of the hours of the day begins at
midnight, the Babylonians counted the first hour with sunrise Noon was the
sixth hour.
This counting method is still in use today in the canon of the Church: the
prime, the terce, the six, the nona, vespers, the complete thorium, the
madotin, and the lauds on the sundials of ancient times.
Many thanks to Bill for finding this video.
More than a sundial – an astronomical compendium.
It is certainly worthy of a detailed account in one of the sundial publications.
Regards, Doug
Here is a link to a youtube video (in German, which I do not know) which has many images that shed light on this dial. There are some string accessories that seem nomographic that I do not understand. At 11' 30" the video seems to show a small angled mirror in the center of the base but I can't discern its function.
-Bill
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