*Location:

   North façade
   Musikschule Werl-Wickede-Ense
   Marktstraße at Kirchgasse
   Werl, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
   LL: N 51.55289, E 7.91357

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*Contact:

   Musikschule Werl-Wickede-Ense
   Kirchplatz 5
   D-59457 Werl
   T: 02922/972419
   E: info/@/vff-musikschule-werl.de
      musikschule/@/werl DOTde

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the itty-bitty octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1983
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  . meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    4 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:   6 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  99%
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

The school Website has two photos of the building, which once was the Rathaus (city hall).

On the Werl city Website, a page about the school has a photo of the building, on which the bells are visible.

Wikimedia Commons photos:  #1 and #2

The German Wikipedia article about the town mentions the old city hall several times, but does not locate or describe it.

The Wikimedia Commons category for the building has several photos of it, including the two above.  A sign puts the glockenspiel on the north side in 1983.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts 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/Nordrhein-Westfalen.

   This page was built from the database on  9-Aug-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/08/09
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/07/07