Hormersdorf is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis

Erzgebirgskreis

Erzgebirgskreis is a district in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is named after the Erzgebirge , a mountain range in the southern part of the district which forms part of the Germany–Czech Republic border...

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Saxony

Saxony

The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....

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Germany

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Dialect clock

In Hormersdorf a "" (Ziffer clock) was installed that displays the time of day in the local Erzgebirgisch

Erzgebirgisch

Erzgebirgisch is an Upper German dialect, probably belonging to the Franconian dialect group, spoken mainly in the central Erzgebirge . It has received relatively little academic attention...

dialect which uses the word "Ziffer" for units of five minute intervals.

The image of the clock at the left shows "" in the dialect meaning 01:10 (literally "two Ziffers of the second hour", a Ziffer being five minutes, the second hour being 01:00 to 02:00 or 13:00 to 14:00 in daytime).

The left-hand wheel has twelve cogs, each showing a five minute interval (a Ziffer), from bottom to top:

üm = at or exactly;

ä Ziffer = one Ziffer or five minutes;

zwee Ziffern = two Ziffer or ten minutes;

värtel = quarter of an hour or fifteen minutes;

vier Ziffern = four Ziffer or twenty minutes;

fünf Ziffern = five Ziffer or twenty-five minutes;

The right-hand wheel also has twelve cogs, each showing a single hour, from bottom to top:

zwilfe = twelve (or "of the twelfth hour");

äns = one (or "of the first hour");

zwee'e = two (or "of the second hour");

dreie = three;

viere = four;

fünfe = five;

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