Olomouc astronomical clock

[3] The lower dial represents the earthly sphere and indicates minute, hour, day, month, year and phase of the moon.

The upper dial represents the heavenly sphere and shows a star map, the Sun, Earth and planets against a background of the twelve houses of the zodiac.

Noon is announced by a brass cockrel, and animated figurines of various proletariat figures who scroll past the windows of the clock for seven minutes.

The clock has been rebuilt several times during its history and equipped with various moving figurines, including St. Wenceslas, St. George on his horse and the dragon, and Three kings on their camels.

The clock was damaged by a grenade in May 1945, in the final days of the Second World War, by soldiers from the retreating Nazi German army passing through Olomouc.

Olomouc Astronomical Clock
Detail of the decoration of the clock
A canvas display of how the clock used to look before it was destroyed in World War II and rebuilt in its present form