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Darmstadt District

Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis

Rüdesheim am Rhein

Foucault Pendulum Sculpture in the Vineyards

Darmstadt District

Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis

Rüdesheim am Rhein

Foucault Pendulum Sculpture in the Vineyards

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Foucault Pendulum Sculpture in the Vineyards

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Location: Rüdesheim am Rhein, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Darmstadt District, Hesse, Germany

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𝕁𝕦𝕨𝕖𝕝

August 28, 2025

This sculpture is more than just an eye-catcher: It is based on the famous experiment by French physicist Léon Foucault, who used a giant pendulum in the Panthéon in Paris to visualize the Earth's rotation in 1851. The sculpture in the vineyards takes this principle and places it in a completely new setting—in the idyllic landscape of the Rheingau.

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Veronika 2020

November 5, 2022

A Foucault pendulum is a three-dimensional pendulum with a large pendulum length and mass, with the help of which the earth's rotation can be detected without astronomical observations in the sky. (Wikipedia)

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October 31, 2024

The French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault demonstrated the rotation of the earth in an experiment in Paris in 1851. The pendulum named after him is a long thread pendulum with a large pendulum mass. To observers, the oscillation plane of the pendulum appears to rotate slowly. But this change is due to the rotation of the earth. In order to be able to show the effect to a large audience, Foucault used a 28 kg metal ball on a 67 meter long metal thread in his demonstration in the Panthéon in Paris in 1851.

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Location: Rüdesheim am Rhein, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Darmstadt District, Hesse, Germany

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Foucault Pendulum Sculpture in the Vineyards

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