RE: From sundial to sundial along a meridian to Cistercian abbeys

[Dave Bell]

The aphorism about the difference between Americans and Europeans probably 
applies equally well to Australians!

 

In the US, 100 years is a long time, while in Europe, 100 miles is a long 
distance!

 

Dave

 

From: sundial [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of 
rodwall1...@gmail.com



About the different Abbeys and sundials. Being there for many hundreds of 
years. Where here in Australia I remember as a child our town became 100 years 
old.

 

Thanks,

 

Roderick Wall.

 
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Re: From sundial to sundial along a meridian to Cistercian abbeys

[rodwall1...@gmail.com]

Hi Willy,
Thanks it was very interesting to read about the trip.

About the different Abbeys and sundials. Being there for many hundreds of 
years. Where here in Australia I remember as a child our town became 100 years 
old.

Thanks,

Roderick Wall.

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From: "Willy Leenders" 
To: "Sundial sundiallist" 
Cc: "Ginny Haesevoets" , "Wim Van Lishout" 
, "Karolien Mondelaers" , 
"Irene Bien" 
Subject: From sundial to sundial along a meridian to Cistercian abbeys
Date: Fri, Nov 24, 2017 8:14 AM

Dear all,

On a garden path in the herb and inspiration garden of the abbey site 
Herkenrode in Hasselt (Flanders in Belgium) is situated an analemmatic sundial 
and a continuous meridian line of 225 meters, the longest in the world.
530 km to the south, in Brou (Bourg en Bresse - France), almost on the same 
meridian is situated the oldest known analemmatic sundial.

In between, not so far from the meridian, left and right there are important 
remains of medieval Cistercian abbeys including Orval, Clairvaux, Fontenay and 
Cîteaux.
Interesting cities in the area are Reims, Troyes and Beaune. 

A group of friends from Herkenrode, also a former Cistercian abbey, did its 
fifteenth annual trip to Cistercian Abbeys in Europe in September 2017 under 
the slogan “From sundial to sundial along a meridian to Cistercian abbeys"

An illustrated and documented report of that trip can be found on my website on 
page http://www.wijzerweb.be/fromsundialtosundial.html


Willy Leenders
Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium)

Visit my website about the sundials in the province of Limburg (Flanders) with 
a section 'worth knowing about sundials' (mostly in Dutch): 
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