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 Quereinhaus. It is called the 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 extension from 1992 houses the office, the museum shop and the museum's toilets.
The kitchen
The equipment with stove and water pump with drain into the yard are original. Added a butter churn.
As was usual on farms in the 19th century, the cowshed was right next to the kitchen, so that if the stove went out at night, the cows would still be warming the room a little the next morning. The smell was accepted.
The Garden
In front of the house is "Auguste's Farm Garden", which was named after the last resident of the house, Auguste Franz. The garden is maintained and tended in the style of a cottage garden from the second half of the 19th century by the 1919 Köllerbach fruit and gardening association. Adjoining it is the sundial garden of the museum.
The sundial garden part 1
1: Decoratively designed steel equatorial sundial 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 sphere, a brass hour band (24 hours) and stainless steel polar axis and time bar. With this watch you have to do it yourself and adjust the shackle so that its shadow is the thinnest.
5: In contrast to a normal sundial, this clock can be read from the north. As a joke, they are also called "official sundials". To save on lighting, a "comptoir" often had south-facing windows.
Manufacturer: Jindra in Weiten (Austria) around 2000
(You can find out about the accuracy of sundials on the monitor in the elementary clock room.)
