On 26 October 1472, Bishop Werner of Schwerin granted a 40-day-indulgence to those who would contribute to the new clock of St. Mary's Church of Rostock. Commemorating the 540th anniversary of this declaration, which, in abundance of other sources, serves as a certificate of birth to the astronomical clock, the City of Rostock, the University of Rostock and the Lutheran Inner City Parish, together with the German Society for Chronometry, invite to this Symposium.
The symposium will continue the tradition of similar events held in Gdansk (1988, 1990, 2003 and 2008) and Stralsund (1994). The lectures of the symposium will focus on following topics:
The political, economical and religous situation in the 14th and 15th century
The function of public clocks in mediaeval cities
The state of knowledge in astronomy in the 14th and 15th century
Findings regarding layout, function, history and preservation of certain monumental clocks
Mechanical and technological features, together with findings of art history on mediaeval astronomical monumental clocks.
Opening: Thursday, 25 October 2012, 2.00 p.m., Marienkirche (St. Mary's Church) Rostock, with reception by the arrangers
Ending: Sunday, 28 October 2012, with a service in St. Mary's church. The sermon will be held by the Bishop of Mecklenburg Lutheran Church, Dr. Andreas von Maltzahn
Excerpts from the preliminary schedule:
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum, Chemnitz: Uhren in mittelalterlichen Städten. Uhrzeiten und städtisches Leben / Clocks in mediaeval Cities. Times of Day and Civic Life
Dipl.-Ing. Olaf Grewe, Rostock: Erläuterungen zur Laservermessung des Äußeren der astronomischen Uhr in der Rostocker Marienkirche durch das Fraunhofer-Institut Rostock/Explanations of the Laser Measuring of the Astronomical Clock of St. Mary's Church, Rostock, by the Fraunhofer Institute, Rostock
Dr. Jürgen Hamel, Berlin: Der wissenschaftliche Hintergrund der astronomischen Uhren im Ostseeraum im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert / The scientific Background of astronomical Clocks in the Baltic during the 14th and 15th century
Prof. Dr. Andrzej Januszajtis, Gdansk/Poland: Wiederaufbau- und Erhaltungsprobleme einer astronomischen Uhr/Problems of Reconstruction and Maintenance of an astronomical Clock
Dr. Peter Knüvener, Berlin: Gedanken eines Kunsthistorikers zum Zifferblatt der Stendaler astronomischen Uhr/Thoughts of an Art Historian regarding the Clock Face of the astronomical Clock of Stendal
Markus Marti, Bern/Schweiz: Erkenntnisse über die astronomische Monumentaluhr im Zeitglockenturm Bern/Findings on the astronomical Monumental Clock of the Zeitglockenturm of Bern, Switzerland
Lone Mogensen, Lund/Sweden: Aufgaben und Probleme beim Erhalt und bei der Nutzung der Lunder Domuhr in der Gegenwart / Challenges and Problems in Preservation and Use of the Clock of Lund Cathedral in the Present
Prof. Dr. Günther Oestmann, Bremen: Über die Bedeutung astronomischer Uhren im profanen und sakralen Raum / On the Meaning of astronomical Clocks in secular and sacred Space
Claus Peter, Hamm: St.-Marienkirche zu Rostock - Uhren und Glocken/St. Mary's Church, Rostock – Clocks and Bells
Prof. Dr. Tilman Schmidt, Rostock: 540 Jahre Ausstellung eines Ablassbriefes zum Neubau der astronomischen Uhr in der Rostocker Marienkirche durch den Bischof von Schwerin/540 Years anniversary of the Bishop of Schwerin drawing up a Letter of Indulgence for building the astronomical Clock of St. Mary's Church, Rostock
Dr. Tilo Schöfbeck, Schwerin: Dendrochronologische Untersuchungen an mittelalterlichen Monumentaluhren. Beobachtungen eines Bauforschers/Dendrochronological research on mediaeval Monumental Clocks – Observations of a Building Researcher
Dipl-Kunstwiss. Jan Schröder, Berlin: Zur Geschichte der Marienkirche. Neue Erkenntnisse der Bauforschung/On the History of St. Mary's Church. New Findings of Building Research
Prof. Dr. Manfred Schukowski, Rostock: Erkenntnisse über die Uhrengeschichte der St. Marienkirche Rostock / Findings on the History of the Clock of St. Mary's Church Rostock
OStR Otto-Ehrenfried Selle, Münster: Theologisches in der tom Ring'schen Malerei auf der münsterischen Domuhr/Theological aspects of tom Ring's Painting on the Clock of Münster Cathedral
Dr. Steffen Stuth, Rostock: Rostock – mittelalterliche Hansestadt im Netzwerk der Städte Nordeuropas / Rostock – mediaeval hanseatic City in the Network of the cities of Northern Europe
Dipl.-Kunstwiss. Julia Trinkert, Kiel: Darstellungstraditionen von Gelehrten in Zwickeln als kompositorische Bildlösungen/ Traditions of Depiction of Scholars in Pendentives as Solutions of Pictorial Composition
Prof. Steven L. Ware, New York/USA: Zu Frühformen von Zeitmessungen mit Hilfe von österlichen Kalendersteinen in der Antike und im Mittelalter/On early Forms of Time Measurement by Means of paschal Calendar Stones in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages
Beyond that, more persons have announced their will to contribute to that Symposium.
The final program with all the details for registration will be published on this Internet page in the end of March / beginning of April.
Participation fee for the Symposium: € 50.- Application:
Hansestadt Rostock
Amt für Kultur und Denkmalpflege
Bereich Denkmalpflege
Strandstraße 97/Mönchentor
D-18055 Rostock
