Presentation of the astronomical investigations of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Reidinger" class="extiw" title="en:Erwin Reidinger">Erwin Reidinger</a> to file the year of construction of the Parish Church of Maiersdorf in the Neue Welt landscape, municipality <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohe_Wand" class="extiw" title="en:Hohe Wand">Hohe Wand</a>, district <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_Neustadt-Land_District" class="extiw" title="de:Wiener Neustadt-Land District">Wiener Neustadt-Land District</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Austria" class="extiw" title="en:Lower Austria">Lower Austria</a> / <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria" class="extiw" title="en:Austria">Austria</a> / <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" class="extiw" title="en:European Union">EU</a>. The photo in the background is taken across the church in an eastern direction and shows the sunrise (metaphor for Jesus Christ) with the forests of the Fischau foothills. The prominent hill is the Burgstall to the south-east of Muthmannsdorf. According to Reidinger's research, the choir of the Maiersdorf church was oriented to the rising sun on Easter Sunday, 24 April 1166 (date Julian). The photo shows the reconstruction of the foundation orientation on 30 April 2022 (date Gregorian, 5: 47 CEST). There is agreement with the calculations in the intended publication.
Erwin Reidinger
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