City glockenspiel

*Location:

   North tower
   St.Nicolaikirche
   Lemgo, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
   LL: N 52.02794, E 8.90193

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*Contact:

   St.Nicolaigemeinde
   Papenstr. 16
   D-32657 Lemgo
   T: 05261-4075   F: 05261-17766
   E: (webform, www.nicolai-lemgo.de)

*Schedule:

   Autoplay hourly

*Remarks:

   Added semitones flat 7th, sharp 4th
   & its octave, minor 6th.  South tower
   holds church peal of 3 medieval bells.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 22 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The instrument was enlarged in unknown year
     with bells made by Rincker      
   Prior history:
     In 1948, the instrument was enlarged to 17 bells
       by Rincker     
       Pitch of heaviest bell was C  in the treble octave
       Transposition was not applicable
       Keyboard range was:     C G   /    NONE  
       There were four added semitones
     In 193?, the instrument was begun with  8 bells
       by Rincker     
       Pitch of heaviest bell was unknown
   Auxiliary mechanisms: I     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2016

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Rincker bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Where the second phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Rincker bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of 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/Lower Saxony.

   This page was built from the database on  5-Nov-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2016/04/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2016/04/02