NIEUWKOOP : NETHERLANDS

*Location:

   City Tower
   N.H.Kerk
   Dorpstraat at Reghthuysplein
   Nieuwkoop, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
   LL: N 52.15046, E 4.77982
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   Gemeente Nieuwkoop
   *parcel:
     Teylersplein 1
     2441 LE  Nieuwveen
   *postal:
     Postbus 1
     2460 AA  Ter Aar
   E: info@nieuwkoop.nl

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 19 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell (excluding sub-bourdon) is G  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range: (G )C G   /    NONE  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1956
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1976
*Links:

The Dutch Wikipedia article about the town does not even mention any churches, nor this freestanding tower.  The bells are visible from Google StreetView.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Netherlands chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Netherlands chimes by pitch of largest bell.
Ranking among all Netherlands chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in NL/Zuid-Holland.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 27-Mar-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/03/26
   and on technical data last updated on 1979/03/13
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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