*Location:

   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:

   Automatically five times daily

*Remarks:

   Made between 1945 and 1979

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 35 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 19??
     with bells made by Rincker     
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1979

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  5-Apr-16
   based on textual data last updated on 2016/04/02
   and on technical data last updated on 1979/08/07