This church´s most distinctive features is an astronomical clock built in 1472 and improved upon throughout the next 200 years; it marks times and seasons indicated for church life as well as crop plantings. In the 15th century, other regions had built great clocks, and not to be outdone, the Rostock community dedicated its wealth to one of its own. Most notably, every day there´s a procession of the New Testament Apostles as they move across the top platform, above the clock face, with Judas bringing up the rear and being left outside the door holding his bag of silver blood money for betraying Jesus Christ.

Read more in Tripatini contributor Allan D. Kissam´s post Time for Rostock, Germany.

Allan D. Kissam