*Location:

   Hof von Oldenburg
   Schloßgang
   Jever, Niedersachsen, Germany
   LL: N 53.57286, E 7.90439

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   Hof von Oldenburg
   Alter Markt 14
   D-26441 Jever
   T: 04461 3081   F: 04461 984325
   E: info/@/hof-von-oldenburg-jever DOTde

*Schedule:

   Daily at 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18

*Remarks:

   Glockenspiel with five moving figures
   of historic rulers

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 16 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1983
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020

The hotel Website has a paragraph about the bells, identifying the five figures in the parade.

A Waymarking page for these bells has 3 photos.

Wikimedia Commons photo showing some of the figures in the parade

Wikimedia Commons closeup view with parade of figures

Photo of the building

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all German chimes 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/Lower Saxony.

   This page was built from the database on  9-Aug-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/08/06
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/07/14