*Location:

   Old Town Hall
   Namesti Republiky (Republic Square)
   Zd'ár nad Sázavou, Czech Republic
   LL: N 49.56281, E 15.93945

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*Contact:

   Mesto Zd'ár nad Sázavoi
   E: informace@zdarns.cz

*Schedule:

   Autoplay hourly 0659-2159 daily, except
   silent Maundy Thursday thru Saturday.

*Remarks:

   Cast in the ZDár foundry in this city
   on the 60th anniversary of ZDAS as a
   gift to the city.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of  9 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is B  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 20__
     with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  . meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    5 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:   6 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  99%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2022

The city Website provides contact information, and has a page about these bells, with the schedule of tunes played at different seasons.

The Wikimedia Commons category for this chime has six photos plus a video (0:37).

The Czech Wikipedia article about the town has a photo of the Republic Square, in which the bells can just be seen on the right wall of the old city hall.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all European chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Czech Republic.

   This page was built from the database on  7-Nov-22
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/10/26
   and on technical data last updated on 2022/10/26