Globe sun-dial

1. The shadow which moves over the globe surface during the day shows the areas of sunrise and sunset at the current time.
2. During the summer you can see that the sun never sets in the arctic area (North Pole), whereas there is polar night at the South Pole.
3. The globe itself becomes the sun-dial: The engraved equator is used as an hour dial. The distance between each hour marker is 15 degrees of longitude (360° / 24 = 15°). The local meridian through Bernau im Schwarzwald is marked with 12:00 (true midday!) As a result the globe becomes a sun-dial for Bernau im Schwarzwald showing the real local time. To read: hold a stick (e.g. hiking stick) above the globe, so that the shadow runs from pole to pole, then you can read the real local time. It is currently true midday in all cities which are in the shadow of the stick. If you do not have a stick, you can estimate the time by looking at the length of the shadow and the shortest shadow on the stone hour marks along the equator.
4. The real Earth axis runs in the direction of the globe axis under our feet from pole to pole through the Earth.
5. At a right-angle we can see eastwards along the current latitude.
6. The extension of the globe axis into the sky shows the Pole Star, upon which the night stars circle.
7. The extension of the globe equator into the sky shows the sky equator, along which the sun takes its route at the equinox.