Re: Dial by Eric Pollähne

[John Goodman via sundial]

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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.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 Plato

Re: Dial by Eric Pollähne

[Douglas Bateman via sundial]

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Dear Monika,

Many thanks for yet more information!

I plan to mention this ’time monument’ (which I have called an astronomical 
compendium) at a forthcoming conference of the British Sundial Society next 
week in Winchester.

I will then ask members to take the matter further, perhaps for a publication 
on our Bulletin.

Best wishes, Doug

> On 2 Apr 2025, at 16:03, Monika Lübker via sundial  
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> Hello to all, 
> for this sundial there also exists a website in German: 
> https://www.zeitmonument.de/
> It describes the sundial in detail.
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Re: Dial by Eric Pollähne

[Douglas Bateman via sundial]

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Dear John,

A very useful service, to be printed and read alongside the video.

Regards, Doug

> On 30 Mar 2025, at 15:09, John Goodman  wrote:
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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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>> On Mar 30, 2025, at 5:46 AM, Douglas Bateman via sundial 
>>  wrote:
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>> Many thanks to Bill for finding this video.
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>> More than a sundial – an astronomical compendium. 
>> 
>> It is certainly worthy of a detailed account in one of the sundial 
>> publications.
>> 
>> Regards, Doug
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>>> On 30 Mar 2025, at 04:55, Bill Gottesman  wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>> https://youtu.be/veIM6xheY04?si=1w_IowZZs03NPS4_
>>> 
>>> -Bill
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Re: Dial by Eric Pollähne

[Douglas Bateman via sundial]

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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

> On 30 Mar 2025, at 04:55, Bill Gottesman  wrote:
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> 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.
> https://youtu.be/veIM6xheY04?si=1w_IowZZs03NPS4_
> 
> -Bill

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Re: Dial by Eric Pollähne

[Bill Gottesman]

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.
https://youtu.be/veIM6xheY04?si=1w_IowZZs03NPS4_

-Bill
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Re: Dial by Eric Pollähne

[Douglas Bateman via sundial]

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Dear Bill,Peter Linder says that the dial exists. I only have a general description with no technical details, written by the late Christopher Daniel in the Clocks magazine in 1995.It would be nice to have a detailed report based on a visit, and then published, hopefully in the BSS Bulletin!Regards Doug Sent from my iPadOn 29 Mar 2025, at 20:10, Bill Gottesman  wrote:Fascinating dial.  Looks like there is a mechanical component.  I would like to learn more about this dial.-BillOn Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM Douglas Bateman via sundial  wrote:Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die
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text is therefore in an attachment.-- Forwarded message --From: Douglas Bateman To: Sundial list Cc: Bcc: Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 18:10:30 +Subject: Dial by Eric PollähneDoes anyone know if this large dial still exists?

It could be near the instrument company founded by the late Eric Pollähne, based in Weingarten.

Best wishes, Doug

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Re: Dial by Eric Pollähne

[Bill Gottesman]

Fascinating dial.  Looks like there is a mechanical component.  I would
like to learn more about this dial.
-Bill

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> Does anyone know if this large dial still exists?
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> It could be near the instrument company founded by the late Eric Pollähne,
> based in Weingarten.
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> Best wishes, Doug
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