*Location:

   Stadthaus (west wall)
   Goldgasse & Brauhof
   (rear of Am Stadthaus 1)
   Apolda, Thüringen, Germany
   LL: N 51.02294, E 11.51477

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*Contact:

   Tourist-Information Apolda
   Markt 1
   D-99510 Apolda
   T: 03644 65 01 00
   E: tourist-information/@/apolda DOTde
      touristinformation/@/apolda DOTde

*Schedule:

   Autoplay daily at 0955,1155,1655

*Remarks:

   The middle part of a carillon cast in
   Waren by Peter Schilling in 1989 but 
   never installed as planned;
   installed here by Perner.
   Repertoire of 115 melodies.

*Bells:

   F3, 38cm, 50kg, 1989, Schilling
   C5, 22cm, 13kg, 1989, Schilling

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 18 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the itty-bitty octave
   Keyboard range:     F C   /    NONE  
   Transposition is not applicable
   There are two missing bass semitones
   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 DGV page about this chime has a photo of the bells.

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.

The Wikimedia Commons category for this building has photos of the chime at various stages of growth of the ivy on the wall., as well as of the nearby replica of the Petersglocke in the cathedral of Cologne (not visible on overhead photography).

Embedded video article (3:16) includes snippets of the bells, programming the controller, and a view of the dedicatory plaque.

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 2013/08/09