Zimmer tower

The Zimmer Tower (formerly Cornelius Tower ) is a clock tower in the Belgian city of Lier, named after the clockmaker Louis Zimmer.

The year of manufacture of the original Cornelius tower is not exactly known, but is available in 1425. He was in 1812 by decision of the local government first sold, but bought after the First World War, as the city administration wanted him to stop.

1928 gave the city of Lier room to celebrate the upcoming 100 -year-old Belgian independence, its clockwork mechanism de Jubelklok indicating different times and astronomical events. It was decided that the movement in the dilapidated Cornelius tower to accommodate, which had to be rebuilt and restored it. The total cost of the conversion amounted to approximately 170,000 Belgian Francs and the work was largely carried out by volunteers. The unveiling of the restored tower took place on 29 June 1930 and since then it bears the name Zimmertoren ( room tower).

Another astronomical clock, de Wonderklok, located since 1960 in an annex of rooms tower. Room was congratulated by Albert Einstein, among others, to this work. The movement contains a variety of other displays the slowest rotating pointer in the world. This indicates the precession of Earth's axis and needed for a round some 25,800 years. Later, rooms added to the movement yet added a planetarium.

On the square in front of the tower is a picture of our solar system was set up, which the two asteroids ( 1664) Felix, named after the Belgian writer Felix Timmermans, and ( 3064 ) Room, named after Louis room contains.