*Location:

   Garden tower
   Henrietten-Stiftung
   (Evang.Luth.Diakonissen Mutterhaus)
   Marienstraße at Sallstraße
   Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany
   LL: N 52.36944, E 9.75580

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*Carillonist:

   Schwester Anke-Christina Müller
   Kantorin der Henriettenstiftung
   Henriettenstiftung Hannover
   Marienstraße 90
   D-30171 Hannover
   C: 0178/289-6730
   E: Anke-Christina.Mueller/@/
      diakovere.de
   - and -
   Hildegard Diers
   - and -
   Arno Mast
   - and -
   Christian Michel

   ~1992 Dr. Karl-Friedrich Waack   (A)
   ~20xx Schwester Lore Wartenberg

*Contact:

   Diakovere Altenhilfe Henriettenstift
   An der Weidenkirche 10
   D-30539 Hannover
   T: 0511/8603-400
   E: info/@/diakovere DOTde

*Schedule:

   M-F 1203-1215, Sat 1745-1800,
   Sun after service, ~1100-15

*Remarks:

   Bells by Schilling/Heidelberg.
   Two practice keyboards (one in tower).

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 49 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A# in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     C C 48/    A#G   
   Transposition is up one octave
   There are two missing bass semitones
   There is a practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1960
     with bells made by Schilling    
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  0 meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:   (unknown)
     Height of highest level of bells:  (unknown)
     Belfry openness:    %
   Year of latest technical information source is 2013

The Website of the Henriettenstiftung has a page about the carillon, with two photos and a downloadable flyer about it.  Alternate page

The DGV page about this carillon has photos of the tower, bells and console.

A page about the carillon (in German) has a photo of the tower.
A page about church music has a downloadable PDF about the carillon, though that has an obsolete email address for the carillonist.

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

   This page was built from the database on 14-Oct-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/09/08
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/08/02