HAMBURG-ALTONA - STJ : GERMANY-BRD

*Location:

   St.Josephs-Kirche (St.Pauli)
   Große Freiheit at Schmuckstraße
   Hamburg-Altona, Hamburg, Germany
   LL: N 53.55133, E 9.95753
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Gemeindebüro St.Joseph
   T: 040/314919
   E: f.koeninger/@/sankt-ansgar DOTde

*Schedule:

   Quarter strike a fourth above the hour
   strike (on E, presumed bass note).

*Remarks:

   Expansion installed by Korfhage;
   console on second balcony

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 25 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is E  in the treble octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The instrument was enlarged in 1972
     with bells made by vanBergen    
   Prior history:
     In 1961, the instrument was begun with 18 bells
       by vanBergen   
       Pitch of heaviest bell was unknown
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1977
*Links:

The Website of the parish has contact information, but does not mention any bells.

A YouTube video (12:30) is titled "Hamburg Altona / St. Pauli: St. Joseph Church the carillon strikes the hour".  This church, now in the St.Pauli district, was originally in the Altona district, which is why we list it that way.  At 7:58 in the video, the camera zooms in, and the bells can be seen in 4 rows behind a screen; at 11:35, voorslag 4 strokes on A, then hour 5 strokes on E.  The producer of this video has many others of Hamburg church bells (1 to 5)

The German Wikipedia article about the church mentions the dedication of the original bells; the later expansion to 25 is mentioned in the paragraph about the organ.  There is a photo of the facade, and a mention of three bells on the east side (but that must be the courtyard on the liturgical east, not the geographical east, which is the front entrance).  The Wikimedia Commons category for the building has several photos of the facade, but none of the three bells mentioned in the text.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the vanBergen bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the vanBergen bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all German non-traditional carillons by 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/Hamburg.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  5-Nov-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/09/21
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/08/15
*Photos:

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