*Location:

   Turmuhren- und Heimatmuseum Bockenem
   Buchholzmarkt at Kirchhof
   Bockenem, Niedersachsen, Germany
   LL: N 52.00851, E 10.12908

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*Contact:

   Turmuhren- und Heimatmuseum
   Buchholzmarkt 21
   D-31167 Bockenem
   T: 05067 715 58 38
   E: guenther.haars@
         turmuhrenmuseum-bockenem.de
      doris.haars@t-online.net

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Also a bell in a roofridge cupola,
   and two large bells in open frames at
   ground level nearby

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 22 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1998
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023

The museum Website doesn't mention the glockenspiel.

Photo from Wikimedia Commons

Contributed panaromic image of the museum building and two ground-level bells

Contributed panaromic image of the museum interior

Contributed panaromic image of the front of the museum

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, 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/Lower Saxony.

   This page was built from the database on  9-Aug-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/08/06
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/08/04