*Location:

   Our Lady Tower
   Jasna Góra (Bright Hill) Monastery
   Częstochowa, Poland
   LL: N 50.81247, E 19.09705

Site locator map The Google Map also shows the locations of great bells on this property.
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Player:

   None - manual keyboard in ruins 
   (as is original mechanical drum).

*Contact:

   Jasna Gora Information Centre
   ul. o. A. Kordeckiego 2
   PL 42-225 Czestochowa 25
   T: (34)37-77-408   F: (34)365-43-43
   E: jci/@/jasnagora DOTpl

*Schedule:

   Marian melodies by modern clockwork
   (maker unknown) every quarter hour.
   Sanctuary open daily 0500-2130.

*Remarks:

   Bells by Gonthier of Belgium. 
   Tower may also house a great bell.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 36 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1909
     with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Auxiliary mechanisms: nB    
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1977

The Jasna Gora Website (click appropriate flag for English version) opens with a crude drawing of the building complex.  Under "The Guide" there is a page about the Belltower.

The Polish Wikipedia article about this place mentions the carillon and has a section about the three great bells.

A YouTube video (2:41) is actually a series of still photos, with no sound until 1:44.

YouTube video in the tower (6:34) includes a lot of crowd noise from tourists, but also a melody from the carillon, with glimpses of tower access, photos of the cracked old bell, and video of the replica bell ringing.

A tourist page has several small photos of the tower, and mentions that visitors can climb past the clock and bells to a viewing platform.

Tower photo from a stock photography site

A tourism page pictures the tower from the adjacent town (scroll down past the advertising).

Tower photo from a photographer's gallery

A personal travelogue page with two photos of the tower

A city tourist page has several photos (repeating some of the above).

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

Ranking among all European traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all traditional carillons in Poland.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Poland.

   This page was built from the database on  9-Feb-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/02/09
   and on technical data last updated on 2006/05/15