Zytglogge

The Zytglogge in Bernese dialect (German Zeitglockenturm) or Tour of the Clock to Bern is a astronomical Horloge of XVIe century comprising a Jacquemart and a Carillon.

Astronomical dial

the hand indicates the position of the sun (on the left for the east, in top in the south, on the right for the west),

a black ball and gold shows the phases of the moon.

a rotary dial indicates the signs of the Zodiaque.

Chime

On the line of the dial the chime is which starts each hour, 4 minutes before the full hour.

An insane makes resound small bells, the number of blows indicates the next hour, however that a round of 7 bears starts to turn, appearing during the days of the week: the first bear assembling a horse symbolizes Sunday, it is followed by 6 bears (Monday to Saturday) each one representing a different trade.

It will be noticed that the fourth bear, when it leaves, turns the head. It symbolizes Wednesday, the turning of the week .

When the full hour arrives, a small man boot sitting on a gilded chair starts to count the blows while making stir up its bearded chin whereas it from left to right agitates a gilded sceptre. A lion gilded on its left vigorously shakes the head for each blow indicating the hour.

At the same moment, the top of the tower, an imposing man gilded (the Jacquemart) striking the large bell, a blow for each hour. All this is initiated by the song of a mechanical cock stirring up its wings, he will also sing in the medium and the end of this representation.

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