SCHERMBECK : GERMANY

*Location:

   Volksbank
   Mittelstraße at Apothekestege
   Schermbeck,
     Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
   LL: N 51.69335, E 6.87214
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   Volksbank Schermbeck eG
   Mittelstraße 54
   D46514 Schermbeck
   T: 02853/98-0   F: 02853/98-56
   E: info@vb-schermbeck.de

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   One bell missing in some photos

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in unknown year
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                .   meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:  6   meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells: 8 9 meters above ground
     Belfry openness: 9  %
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020
*Links:

Wikimedia Commons has photos of the building and the bells.

StreetView image of the building

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/Nordrhein-Westfalen.

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

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