*Location:

   Juwelier Robert Triffterer
   Bottroper Glockenspielhaus
   Hansastraße 10
   Bottrop,
     Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
   LL: N 51.52176, E 6.92526

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*Contact:

   Juwelier Robert Triffterer
   Hansastraße 10
   D-46236 Bottrop
   T: 20 41 / 10 90-0
   F: 2041 1090 10
   E: juwelier/@/triffterer DOTde

*Schedule:

   Autoplay on the hour at 10,11,12,16,17,
   18, plus quarters

*Remarks:

   Restored and rehung in 2007

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 25 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     F F   /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1963
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Auxiliary mechanisms: I     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1966

The jeweler's own Website has a photo of some of the bells on the home page.

A German Wikipedia article about the bells has full details.

A tourist page offers two clickable photos of the bells plus a Google-translated history.

In a list of 15 best things to do in Bottrop, this is #11, and has a photo of the bells and their schedule.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen 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.

   This page was built from the database on  8-Sep-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/08/28
   and on technical data last updated on 1975/07/20