*Location:

   Rathausgiebel
   Markt
   Haltern-am-See,
     Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
   LL: N 51.74316, E 7.18709

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*Contact:

   Stadt Haltern am See
   Dr.-Conrads-Straße 1
   D-45721 Haltern am See
   T: 02364/933-0   F: 02364/933-111
   E: stadtagentur@haltern.de

*Schedule:

   Daily at 1001, 1215, 1601, 1907

*Remarks:

   Gift to the city on its 700th birthday
   from the Stadtsparkasse

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 16 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 1989
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020

Wikimedia Commons has a photo of the building and a closeup of the bells.  The category for carillons in this state has 11 photos of this building.

A city page mentions the glockenspiel but gives few details.

A Waymarking page for these bells has 2 night photos.  The are also also Waymarked in a different category.

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/Nordrhein-Westfalen.

   This page was built from the database on  9-Aug-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/08/07
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/07/14