*Location:

   Historisches Rathaus
   Weserstraße at Am Rathaus
   Höxter, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
   LL: N 51.77379, E 9.38215

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Stadt Höxter
   Westerbachstraße 45
   D-37671 Höxter
   T: 05271 963-0   F: 05271 963-1900
   E: rathaus@hoexter.de

*Schedule:

   Autoplay daily 0855,1155,1455,1755,2055

*Remarks:

   Controls by Korfhage include roll
   player and two-manual keyboard, 4 octaves

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 35 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    NONE  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1959
     with bells made by Rincker     
   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:  85%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020

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

The Wikimedia Commons category for the building has several photos of the tower.  There is a sub-category for these bells, which has photos of the tower, the keyboard and the roll player, and several audio files of various tunes.  Unfortunately, none appear to include an hour strike, which might verify the apparent existence of a much larger hour bell inside the belfry.

The German Wikipedia article about the building has current and historic photos, and mentions the bells.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Rincker bellfoundry, 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.

   This page was built from the database on  9-Aug-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/08/09
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/08/09