FRIESOYTHE : GERMANY

*Location:

   Rathaus
   Lange Straße at Moorstraße
   Friesoythe, Niedersachsen, Germany
   LL: N 53.02035, E 7.85843
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   Stadt Friesoythe
   Alte Mühlenstraße 12
   D-26169 Friesoythe
   T: 04491 9293-0
   E: Webform @ www.friesoythe.de

*Schedule:

   Autoplay daily 1015,1215,1515,1715,1915

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2001
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023
*Links:

The city Website has a page about these bells.

The Wikimedia Commons category for the building has three photos of the bells and one of the descriptive plaque.

The German Wikipedia article about the town mentions a Peace Bell (Friedensglocke), but not these bells.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, 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/Lower Saxony.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  9-Aug-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/08/06
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/08/06
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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