BILLERBECK : GERMANY

*Location:

   Propsteikirche St.Ludgerus
   Markt at Bahnhoffstraße
   Billerbeck,
     Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
   LL: N 51.97803, E 7.29139
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*Contact:

   Pfarr- und Propsteigemeinde
   St.Johannes der Täufer Billerbeck
   Kirchstraße 4
   D-48727 Billerbeck
   T: 02543 / 62 09   F: 02543 / 81 82
   E: stjohannes-billerbeck@
        bistum-muenster.de

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Not yet known which tower holds these
   bells.  There is also a 6-bell peal by
   Petit & Edelbrock (5 in north tower,
   1946; bourdon in south tower, 1992) and
   a small bell by Clemente Brighenti
   (Bologna, 1893) in the crossing spire.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 23 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2020
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   Auxiliary mechanisms: O     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020
*Links:

The parish Website has a page about this building, which includes details of the 6 bells of the peal, but does not yet mention the new bells.

The German Wikipedia article about the church has a photograph of it, and a section about the other bells, but does not yet mention these.  More photos of the building can be found in the linked Wikimedia Commons category.

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

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in Germany/Nordrhein-Westfalen.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  7-May-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/05/05
   and on technical data last updated on 2021/05/03
*Photos:

(none available)

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