FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN - B : GERMANY-BRD

*Location:

   Bethlehemkirche
   Fuchshohl
   Frankfurt-Ginnheim
   Frankfurt-am-Main, Hessen, Germany
   LL: N 50.14525, E 8.65265
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Evangelische Bethlehemgemeinde
   Fuchshohl 1
   D-60431 Frankfurt-am-Main
   T: 069 52 99 47   F: 069 51 75 21
   E: ev.bethlehemgemeinde/@/t-online/./de

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Made about 1960; diatonic octave minus
   3d & 7th plus treble and flat 7th

*Technical data:

   Motor-swung peal of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A# in the middle octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     NONE  /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was installed in 19__
     with bells made by Rincker     
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1979
*Links:

The church Website

The German Wikipedia article about the church has a clickable photo of the tower plus a section about the peal.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Rincker bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in Germany/Hessen.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  6-Apr-16
   based on textual data last updated on 2016/04/03
   and on technical data last updated on 2016/04/02
*Photos:

(none available)

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