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    Die synchronisierte Stadt

    Öffentliche Uhren und Zeitwahrnehmung, Wien 1850 bis heute

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    Author(s)
    Payer, Peter
    Collection
    Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
    Language
    German
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    Abstract
    The work at hand explores the successive chronometrisation of public space using the example of Viennas public clocks from the middle of the 19th century until today.The need for knowing the exact time steadily increased since the middle of the 19th century. As two centuries ago the clocks had only hour hands, the minute hands soon became essential. Industrialisation, urbanisation, but primarily the rapid development of the railroading promoted the trend towards the modern time management of the society. Schedules demanded a higher precision of time specification; circulations of goods and persons had to be adjusted to each other; professional and private activities became standardised, tacted and adjusted to the abstract rhythm of the clocks. The knowledge about the social and economic value of time became a central criterion for the level of western civilisation. Especially the members of the middle-class got more and more used to a chronometer. It was a high goodness for them to use their time as efficient as possible. Pocket watches and wrist watches became familiar and also the number of public clocks continously increased. Especially the more and more complex organised cities became pioneers in the sphere of public timepiece. The work at hand explores, for the first time in the German-speaking historical research, the successive chronometrisation of public space using the example of Vienna from the middle of the 19th century until today. On the one hand it deals with the “exterior chronometrisation“, that is the visible aggregation of the infrastructure of time and the construction of different kinds of clocks. Spatial, architectural and design related aspects were argued, contexts of technical history as the search for the ideal drive system and of the political and representative functions of public clocks were discussed. On the other hand it deals with the “interior chronometrisation“ which means social, psychological and cultural aspects of the perception of time and their contextualisation in phenomena of scaling and standardisation on a local basis to a world scale. The actual trend of visualising public time to the split second marks the (temporary) end of the development which shows the speedup of all areas of life in a visible and sensible way.
     
    Das vorliegende Werk beleuchtet das vielschichtige Wechselverhältnis von Stadt und Zeit. Ursachen und Auswirkungen der urbanen „Chronometrisierung“ werden am Beispiel der öffentlichen Uhren Wiens von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis heute dargestellt.
     
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    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33096
    Keywords
    Public clocks; Synchronisation of time; Urban history; Perception of time; History of Vienna; European history; Öffentliche Uhren; Synchronisation; Zeitwahrnehmung; Stadtgeschichte; Geschichte von Wien; Europäische Geschichte; Wiener Würfeluhr; Zifferblatt
    DOI
    10.15661/mono/geschichtel/synchro-stadt
    ISBN
    9783902868534
    OCN
    1030821508
    Publisher
    Holzhausen
    Publisher website
    https://www.verlagholzhausen.at/
    Publication date and place
    2015
    Grantor
    • Austrian Science Fund - PUB 286
    Classification
    History
    Pages
    240
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    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Wien - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien; Wiener Würfeluhr - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_W%C3%BCrfeluhr; Zifferblatt - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zifferblatt
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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