The clock of the Strusburg Cathedral.

The clock of the Strusburg Cathedral was a miracle of the middle aged engineering. It was set in 1354 and lately connected with the bell ringing every hour. On that clock exept the face with a hand there was a whole planetarium: the rotating star sky, ever calendar, zodiak with the moving planets. But it was also a mechanical theatre. At  midday there were scence from the Bible there. There was God's Mother with the infant, three saint senders, the small mechanical dulcimer and the cock jumped, crowed and flaped its wings loudly. But it was only a big mechanical toy. The clock had not the exact pandulum regulating and it was necessary to correct it according the sun's clock.

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