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oapen-20.500.12657-330962022-08-31T07:02:15Z Die synchronisierte Stadt Payer, Peter 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 bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History 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. 2015-12-31 23:55:55 2019-11-27 15:45:32 2020-04-01T14:32:32Z 2020-04-01T14:32:32Z 2015 book 574669 OCN: 1030821508 9783902868534 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33096 ger application/pdf 574669.pdf Holzhausen 10.15661/mono/geschichtel/synchro-stadt 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. 10.15661/mono/geschichtel/synchro-stadt 64a1fac7-43f6-4850-8672-5af6def4213d 26ae1657-c58f-4f1d-a392-585ee75c293e 9783902868534 Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 240 PUB 286 Austrian Science Fund Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung open access
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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.
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