*Location:

   Geschäftshause
   Poststraße at Zollnerstraße
   Celle, Niedersachsen, Germany
   LL: N 52.62403, E 10.08197

   Juwelier Schnell
   Am Markt 14-16

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*Contact:

   Stadt Celle
   Am Französischen Garten 1
   Neues Rathaus
   D-29221 Celle
   T: 05141 12-0
   E: stadt@celle.de

*Schedule:

   Daily at 1100, 1300, 1700, with parade
   of five figures; silent Nov-Mar

*Remarks:

   Installed by Korfhage (Melle)

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1973
     with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                 (unknown)
     Height of lowest level of bells:   (unknown)
     Height of highest level of bells:  98 meters above ground
     Belfry openness: I  %
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020

The city Website has a page about the glockenspiel, which describes all five figures from Celle history.  (Click "+" to see a large photo of them.)

The Wikimedia Commons category for Carillons_in_Lower_Saxony has five photos of the glockenspiel, including two that show the five figures in the parade.

The German Wikipedia article about this glockenspiel identifies the five figures.

Closeup photo of the bells

A Waymarking page for these bells has 5 photos.

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 21-Sep-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/09/18
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/07/14