OSNABRUECK : GERMANY-BRD

*Location:

   Marienkirche
   Stadtweg nr Ernst-Reuter-Straße
   Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Germany
   LL: N 52.26946, E 8.12492
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*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Made between 1945 and 1979

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 17 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C# in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 19__
     with bells made by Rincker     
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1979
*Links:

The German Wikipedia article about the church mentions a heavy 5-bell peal from Rincker (1959), but not the chime.

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/Lower Saxony.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  5-Apr-16
   based on textual data last updated on 2016/04/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2016/04/02
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