Sundial - Eupen

In 2009 the sundial was restored.

The monumental west facade is characterized by the two square tower buildings over two floors with their large bricked-up arch openings. The wall stones in the round arch of the right tower largely originate from the tower construction of the first chapel from the 12th/13th century. Originally, the plans from 1722 only provided for this one tower on the south corner of the church, but Mefferdatis decided at short notice to add a second tower in mirror image on the north side.

The curved niche was filled with bluestone blocks, in which an oval horizontal ox-eye was placed at the top and a sundial in the middle. At the foot of the tower, standing in a small round stone base, is an old mission cross from 1852 with a small canopy, the cast iron head of Christ of which was modelled on the late Gothic crucifix in the parish church of Baelen from the 16th century.

Willem Vandenameele