HATTINGEN : GERMANY-BRD

*Location:

   Turm der ehem. Johanniskirche
   Krämersdorf
   Hattingen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
   LL: N 51.39857, E 7.18295
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*Player:

   Peter Siepermann

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Electric keyboard/MIDI

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 25 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 1958
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020
*Links:

The DGV page about this instrument has no photos; details are incomplete.

The German Wikipedia article about the belltower (formerly part of the Johanniskirche) has a photo of the tower.  The body of the associated church was destroyed by war in 1945 and has not been rebuilt. The carillon was donated by banker and entrepreneur Leo Gottwald.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown 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/Nordrhein-Westfalen.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 20-Feb-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/02/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2021/02/02
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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