Fronwag tower

The large market scales used to hang in the Fronwagturm, which were used to weigh the goods that were unloaded from the ship in Schaffhausen and loaded back onto the ships below the Rhine Falls. The scales are now in the Museum zu Allerheiligen. In the gable field of the tower you can see the astronomical clock by Joachim Habrecht, which shows ten different possibilities: 1. hours 2. days of the week 3. course of the moon through the signs of the zodiac 4. rise and fall of the moon in the sky 5. position of the sun in relation to the zodiac 6. seasons 7. equinoxes 8. lunar nodes 9. eclipses 10. aspects between Sun and Moon. The black and gold sphere above the Roman XII of the clock shows the waxing and waning of the moon.