Tower clock (Turmuhr) on Epiphany Church (Dreikönigskirche) - Dresden, Germany
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Tower clock on the Dreikönigskirche (Church of the Three Kings)which was finished in the year 1739, totally destroyed during air raids in 1945 and reconstructed in 1994.
Waymark Code: WMJM43
Location: Sachsen, Germany
Date Posted: 12/02/2013
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The Dreikönigskirche (Church of the Three Kings) finished in the year 1739 based on the design by Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662 – 1736) and George Bähr (1666 – 1738) is already the fourth chapel at this point. After the bombings in February 1945 the Dreikönigskirche burned out. Reconstruction as a churchly general-purpose building extended until 1994. In October 1990 the constituent meeting of the newly elected Saxon Parliament took place here. Today the church is a place for various events. The view of the tower offers the best glance at the Altstadt.
Just during the latest reconstruction a new wall mounted clock were installed in the 87-meters high tower of the church, an unmistakable part of Dresden's cityscape. Each of four dials has about 3 meters in diameters and on their white background black latin ciphers representing hours.