*Location:

   Rathaus
   Brandenburger Str. at Bäumenstraße
   Fürth, Bayern, Germany
   LL: N 49.47717, E 10.98913

   Mobile trailer
   Bayreuth, Bayern, Germany

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   Tourist Information
   T: 0911/23 95 87 0
   E: tourist-info/@/fuerth DOTde

*Schedule:

   Daily at 12:04, bars 8 to 16 of the
   rock classic "Stairway to Heaven" by the
   British rock group Led Zeppelin.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 25 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 2007
     with bells made by Eijsbouts in unknown year
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020

Photo of former city administrator Alexander Mayer with the carillon he discovered in Bayreuth, which is now on the town hall tower.

The Wiki for the city of Fürth (in German) has a section about the bells of the city hall.  There are also photos of the building, and a history of the previous bells.

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/Bavaria.

   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 2020/08/28