Hormersdorf

In Hormersdorf a "Ziffern-Uhr" (Ziffer clock) was installed that displays the time of day in the local Erzgebirgisch dialect which uses the word "Ziffer" for units of five minute intervals.^{[citation needed]}

The image of the clock at the left shows "zwee Ziffern zwee'e" 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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