*Location:

   St.Nikolaiturm
   Willy-Brandt-Straße at Neue Burg
   Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
   LL: N 53.54749, E 9.99069

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*Carillonist:

   Mr.Werner Lamm
   - and -
   Ms.Gudrun Schmidtke

   1993-2005 Richard Brinkmann
   20xx-?? Eberhard Köther

*Contact:

   Förderkreis Mahnmal St.Nikolai e.V.
   Willy-Brandt-Straße 60
   D-20457 Hamburg
   T: 040/468 980 40   F: 040/468 980 410
   E: info/@/mahnmal-st-nikolai DOTde

*Schedule:

   Thursday 1200 (market, live)
   Wednesday 1200 (ring for peace, auto)
   12-note quarters 0800-2000 daily, with
   tune at 9,12,15,18 (automatic, from
   MIDI system w/pneumatic pistons)

*Remarks:

   Carillon of 1661 was originally at
   St.Katharine, Hamburg; purchased by
   St.Nikolai in 1665; destroyed in great
   city fire of 1842.
   VanAerschodt carillon destroyed in WW I.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 51 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     C D   /    C F#  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The whole instrument was installed in 1992
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   Prior history:
     In 1888, a complete instrument of 34 bells was installed
       with bells made by vanAerschodt
       (0 bells remain from that work.)
       Pitch of heaviest bell was unknown
     In 1661, a complete instrument of 25 bells was installed
       with bells made by an unknown maker
       (0 bells remain from that work.)
       Pitch of heaviest bell was unknown
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                 (unknown)
     Height of lowest level of bells:   (unknown)
     Height of highest level of bells:  (unknown)
     Belfry openness: 95 %
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023

An English page about the carillon on the church Website has a brief history, a photo and a short video (3:14).

On the church's YouTube channel you can also find videos about special events with the carillon, including this one about the Carillon as part of the memorial.  More videos and photos of the carillon can be found on the social media channels of the Mahnmal St. Nikolai (Instagram, X, Facebook).

The former Website of the carillon (in German, lost in 2016-17) opens with a photo of the carillon in the open windowframe of the half-ruined tower of the former church. 

The DGV page about this carillon has a photo of the bells in the ruined tower, and a partial description.

A Waymarking page for these bells has 32 photos of the tower.

Local page with photo of the keyboard (manual C D 51) and a video (1:29)

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Where the second phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the vanAerschodt bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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

Index to all traditional carillons in Germany.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Germany/Hamburg.

   This page was built from the database on  9-Oct-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/09/29
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/08/02