Hi Roderick I was wondering when someone figures that out :)
Yes you are absolutely right - the stones are not fixed and as you have suggested someone must have swiched them. It is in Zwolen - a very small town south of Warsaw. The dial (dated 1973) is located on a central square which is more like a park. Anyway, that's not the only error in the dials photographed that day. You take a closser look at the 4th picture in my text depicting a goldish sundial. The dial plate seems to be OK, but the gnomon was incorrectly fixed. Im affraid there is still to much ignorance in my country concerning sundials. But I will change it :) We don't have to mamy motels in Poland but there are a lot of other places to stay overnight. We were lucky to get an apartment for a night at the Kozłówka (Kozlowka) Palace - one of the reachest palaces in my country. For ages it belonged to the Zamoyski family and now there is a museum there. And they have a nice sundial in the courtyard (shown on two photos in my article). If anyone intends to visit Poland I can recommend this place. Ragards, Darek Dnia 7 lipca 2011 22:39 "R Wall" <[email protected]> napisał(a): > Hi Darek, > > The garden sundial at the bottom of the 1st page on your website. Looks as > if someone has moved the hour stones to incorrect hour positions. Some hour > stones even look to be just sitting there and are not fixed. But the hour > stones all look to be there with none missing. Is this correct? > > Do you know how old this sundial is. Your sundial safari sounds like fun, I > guess you stayed in motels for the three days. > > Regards, > > Roderick Wall. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dariusz Oczki > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 8:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Polish sundial saffari > > Hello all > > A few days ago I had a wonderful trip which you might call a sundial > saffari. Together with my girlfriend we marked on our sundial map a group of > places we have never been before and we took off. In Poland we have some > cases of two or ever three villages of the same name in the same voivodship > (our local version of you provinces, states or departaments) so you never > know which place you should go to find a sundial mentioned in a historical > monument register. It means finding a specific sundial sometimes requires a > little of detective skills. But this way there is even more fun - you just > need more time. Anyway, as a result of the three days trip we found 7 dials > in the Lublin area which is south-east of Warsaw. > > If you wish to see them then you just follow the link below: > http://gnomonika.pl/news.php?id=53 > > The saffari description is in Polish but the photographes are international > :) > > --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
