The house in which the Saarland Clock Museum is located was built around 1820 on the site of the former sheep farm of Bucherbach Castle. It is a South-West-German House, in which all the rooms necessary for a farm are under one roof with a continuous ridge. Since the entrance to the farmhouse is on the long side, such a house is also called a transverse house. It is called watchmaker's house because from 1820 to 1985 a son of the Franz family (formerly Frantz) ran a watchmaker's workshop with a shop.
The 1992 extension houses the office, the museum shop and the museum's toilets.
The garden
In front of the house is "Augustes Bauerngarten", which was named after the last resident of the house, Auguste Franz. The garden is maintained and cared for in the style of a cottage garden from the 2nd half of the 19th century by the fruit and horticultural association 1919 Köllerbach. This is followed by the museum's sundial garden.
The sundial garden part 1
1: Decoratively designed equatorial sundial made of steel with an unfolded dial (VIII - XII - IV)
2: Simple sundial
3: Decorative sundial in the stylized form of an armillary sphere
Manufacturer: Jindra in Weiten (Austria) around 2000
(You can find out about the accuracy of sundials on the monitor in the elementary clock room.)
The sundial garden part 2
4: Equatorial sundial with 24 meridians on a concrete ball, an hour band (24 hours) made of brass and the polar axis and time bracket made of stainless steel. With this watch you have to take action yourself and adjust the bracket so that its shadow is thinnest.
5: In contrast to a normal sundial, this clock can be read from the north. As a joke, it is also known as the "official sundial". To save lighting, a "Comptoir" often had windows facing south.
Manufacturer: Jindra in Weiten (Austria) around 2000
(You can find out about the accuracy of sundials on the monitor in the elementary clock room.)
