*Location:

   Glockenmuseum Apolda
   Bahnhofstraße 41, btwn Ackerwand
     and Kunstweg
   Apolda, Thüringen, Germany
   LL: N 51.02701, E 11.51928

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Glockenmuseum Apolda
   T: 0176 10650024   F: 03644 5152575
   E: glockenmuseum@apolda.de

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Treble  B,C,D,E,F,F#,G,A from carillon
   cast in Waren by Peter Schilling
   in 1989 but never installed as planned.
   Indoors, hung on an open rack to be
   struck with a hand-held mallet.
   Museum has many other bells on display
   plus 8 bells in the Paulinen Park
   behind the building.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    NONE  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2000
     with bells made by Schilling in 1989
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023

The German Wikipedia article about the city mentions these bells.

YouTube video (0:46) of these bells being rung by hand.  Their arrangement on the rack is as follows:

	   f#
	e f g a
	 h c d

Another YouTube video (6:10) is a tourist's walk-through of the museum.  At 3:55 and 6:05 can be seen a two-octave carillon console (-X23:CC/CC).

Another YouTube video (3:41) is a walk through the park behind the museum, where 8 medium-sized bells can be found.  [Probably they deserve their own page, once more information about them is found.]

Justin rings some of the museum's bells, with help from his mama. (1:41)

A tourism page (in German) recounts the history of bellfounding in Apolda, and gives information about four sets of bells in the city.
Alternatively, a Two-page flyer (PDF) from the Apolda tourist office about glockenspiels in the city has photos of all four.

Where the original destination of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Schilling 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/Thuringia.

   This page was built from the database on 18-Aug-26
   based on textual data last updated on 2026/07/23
   and on technical data last updated on 2026/07/23