Museum of Time - Palatinate Tower Clock Museum

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Museum of Time - Palatinate Tower Clock Museum
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Museum of Time - Palatinate Tower Clock Museum
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place Rockenhausen
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Watch museum
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ISIL DE-MUS-314710
Museum of time. Building in Schlossstrasse

The Museum für Zeit - Palatinate Tower Clock Museum in Rockenhausen presents a collection of historical timekeeping devices, an astronomical clock and a carillon in a former homestead . It has a rich library with special literature on the subject of time measurement . Copper engravings and illustrations on the subject as well as special library copies are on display .

The museum, founded by Knut Deutschle in 1979, was initially called the clock room or the Palatinate clock room because of its small collection. As a result, interesting tower clocks were collected and restored. Today the museum has 50 tower clocks, the largest of which is over 3 meters tall. The museum was then called the Palatinate Tower Clock Museum . With the expansion of the collection to include wall clocks , grandfather clocks , sundials , water clocks and hourglasses , the term Museum for Time was added to the name.

Under the gable of the museum there is a carillon with 37 bells , which was installed in 2014 for 91,000 euros, of which 45,000 euros were provided by the EU. The city was advised by the Würzburg musicologist Dr. Jürgen Buchner , who is also a graduate of the Jef Deyn Royal Carillon School in Mechelen .

Publications

The Museum für Zeit publishes books and brochures. So far:

Series of clocks in the Palatinate

  • The old tower clocks
  • Master of the old tower clocks
  • Sundials in the Palatinate

Series of times and clocks

  • Volume 1 - Hourglasses
  • Volume 2 - Sundials
  • Volume 3 - water clocks, sundials and hourglasses

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gil: To the matter (I): The Museum for Time in Die Rheinpfalz from May 24, 2014, page Your weekend
  2. ↑ Dagmar Gilcher: who (s) the bell calls. in Die Rheinpfalz from May 24th, 2014, page your weekend
  3. ↑ http://www.museum-fuer-zeit.de/html/uber_uns.html
  4. ↑ http://www.museum-fuer-zeit.de/html/konzept.html
  5. ↑ Dagmar Gilcher: who (s) the bell calls. in Die Rheinpfalz from May 24th, 2014, page your weekend
  6. ↑ http://www.museum-fuer-zeit.de/html/publikationen.html

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '46.55 "  N , 7 ° 49' 14.01"  E