Hagen - Model of the Solar System

In Friedrich-Ebert-Platz in Hagen stands the Town Hall (Rathaus), which has on its tower a gilded sphere of special steel representing the sun, set up here in 1965. It has a diameter of 1.39m (just over 4.5ft) - a billionth part of the sun's diameter - and the whole of the solar system is distributed about the town on the same scale, with bronze plates on the pavements marking the orbits of the planets.