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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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August 28, 2025

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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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November 5, 2022

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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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August 21, 2017

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Tripod wooden sculpture shortly before the Niederwald monument;)

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

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