*Location:

   Rathaus
   Großsachsener Straße at Kapellenweg
   Hirschberg an der Bergstraße,
     Baden-Württemberg, Germany
   LL: N 49.50204, E 8.66236

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page (Hohensachsen)

*Player:

   Cantor Andreas Well

*Contact:

   Gemeinde Hirschberg
   Großsachsener Straße 14
   D-69493 Hirschberg
   T: 06201 598-00
   E: gemeinde/@/hirschberg-bergstrasse.de

*Schedule:

   Autoplay daily Mar-Nov 0905,1205,1705;
   hour strike 0800-2000.
   Manual play at 1100 on Advent Sundays
   also 1200 Christmas Eve.

*Remarks:

   Porcelain bells from Meissen

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 18 porcelain bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The instrument was enlarged in 2007
     with porcelain bells made by Meissen     
   Prior history:
     In 1986, the instrument was begun with an unknown number of porcelain bells
       by Meissen     
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  . meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:   (unknown)
     Height of highest level of bells:  (unknown)
     Belfry openness:  50%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023

Photo

The German Wikipedia article about the town has the above photo, and mentions that the Meissen porcelain glockenspiel was dedicated on 19 Oct 1996 and now has 18 bells.

The city Website opens with a large photo of the new city hall and its bell tower.

A page about the glockenspiel has a closeup photo of the bells, and gives the schedule of music throughout the year.  Original size (1996) unknown; last bell was added in 2007.  Two more photos of the building and tower are on the Contact page.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meissen porcelain factory, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meissen porcelain factory, in this region and in the world.

[Instruments with porcelain bells are not indexed 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/Baden-Württemberg.

   This page was built from the database on  5-Nov-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/08/04
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/08/04