World Clock (Alexanderplatz) - EXPLORED

This capture was taken in the late afternoon hours of the 18th of August 2023 with Nikon D800.

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The World Clock (German: Weltzeituhr), also known as the Urania World Clock (German: Urania-Weltzeituhr), is a large turret-style world clock located in the public square of Alexanderplatz in Mitte, Berlin.
By reading the markings on its metal rotunda, the current time in 148 major cities from around the world can be determined.
Since its erection in 1969, it has become a tourist attraction and meeting place.
In July 2015, the German government declared the clock as a historically and culturally significant monument.
The sixteen ton world clock was opened to the public on 30 September 1969, shortly before the twentieth anniversary of the German Democratic Republic, along with the Berlin TV Tower (Fernsehturm). The erection of the clock was part of a larger plan to expand and reorganize Alexanderplatz as a whole. At the end of the renovations, the public square was four times larger than it was at the end of the World War II.

The clock was designed by the designer Erich John, who at the time was an employee of the planning group for the transformation of Alexanderplatz under the direction of Walter Womacka. Before designing the clock and managing its construction, John was a lecturer at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee (then called the Hochschule für bildende und angewandte Kunst, "College of Fine and Applied Arts"), where he taught product design. The idea to erect a clock in Alexanderplatz was had when the wreckage of the Urania-Säule (a.k.a. Wettersäule), a pre-World War II public clock, was found during the restoration of the square in 1966.

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Taken on: August 18, 2023

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