> I shall shortly be paying a brief visit to Poland, and should be able to > spend short periods in the towns of Wroclaw, Klodzko, Miedzygarze, and > Wambieryce. Can any of our Polish friends tell me if there are any sundials > in these places which I might find time to look at ? Many thanks.
There are some sundials in Wroclaw though I actually do not remember their addresses. Threre is also a ``sunny'' clock at the town hall. About Klodzko, Wambierzyce and Miedzygorze. Generally in that region there are sundials but particulary in those places there are not. Perhapse in Koldzko (which is the biggest of them) there is or was a sundial. Unfortunately last year there was a big flood in Klodzko so I am not sure if they maneged to remove all the destructions. In Wambierzyce there is a barocco basilica and Miedzygorze is rather a village at the end of the world. If you have some time to spare you can visit some other places near by in which there are for sure sundials. About 10 km west from the route Wroclaw-Klodzko (a right turn in Jordanow) there is a small town Sobotka. The sundial is near the entrance to the palace (a small one). About 19 km east from the route Wroclaw-Klodzko (a left turn in Zabkowice) there is a town Ziebice. The sundial is on the town-hall tower below the town-hall clock. About 18 km south from Ziebice there is a mediaeval town Paczkow in which as I was informed there is a sundial. I have never been to Paczkow so the information is not quit reliable but is well worth to check. On the other side of the artificial lake near Paczkow there is a small and quite nice town called Otmuchow. It is about 10 km east from Paczkow and I encourage to visit it. There is an old castle, a barocco church and a town-hall in it and on every of those buildings there is a sundial (in fact on the town-hall there are 2). The sundials onthe town hall are from 1575 year. Those sundials are connected with the activity of two brothers whose name was Scultetus who lived in the region of Silesia. One of them Bartholomew Scultetus wrote in 1572 a sundial handbook entitled ``Gnomonicae de Solaris sive doctrina practica tertiae partis'' which is ranked among the best before the book of Clavius. You can get to Otmuchow also from Klodzko. It is about 42 km east. If you go from Wroclaw to Klodzko by car you can easily visit those places during 1 day. Some time ago a Polish popular scientific magazine ``Wiedza i Zycie'' (``Science and Life'') organized a competition in finding as many sundials as possible. Perhaps they have more information about the sundials in the places you are interested in. You can try to contact them. Their email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best regards Krzysztof Kotynia
