*Location:

   Hotel Schiefer
   or Kaiseringhause
   (former Stadtkämmerei, or City Hall)
   Marktplatz at Kornstraße
   Goslar, Niedersachsen, Germany
   LL: N 51.90598, E 10.42950

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Hotel Schiefer
   Markt 6
   D-38640 Goslar
   T: 05321 382 270 0
   F: 05321 382 270 199
   E: info/@/gastrourban DOTde

*Schedule:

   Daily at 09, 12, 15, 18

*Remarks:

   Glockenspiel, with parade of figures
   showing the history of silver mining
   in this region.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 19 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1968
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2008

A blog article about a visit to the town includes a clickable photo and a description of the glockenspiel.

A photo gallery has four clickable photos of the glockenspiel in operation.

A bilingual page (French & German) about the glockenspiel has a dozen photos of various apsects of its operation.

The Wikimedia Commons category for this instrument has 17 photos, mostly of various aspects of its action.

Stock photo with 13 bells visible while others are concealed by the parade of figures

A Waymarking page for these bells has 4 photos.

Similar photo, with doors closed

Photo, open, with different figures and 19 bells visible

Photo, open with more different figures

Photo with another figure

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 glockenspiels in the world.

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 2008/12/15