KARLSRUHE - RH : GERMANY

*Location:

   Rathaus portico ceiling
   Marktplatz
   Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
   LL: N 49.00862, E 8.40352
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (Normally) daily 1202,1302,1502,1702

*Remarks:

   Mar.2020: bells removed to storage
   during construction work on marketplace.
   Eijsbouts corrected tuning, supplied
   new autoplay mechanism & controls.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 42 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 unknown year
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020
*Links:

A page about the bells has 2 photos.

The German Wikipedia article about the building is a stub; there is a photo of the building, but the bells are not mentioned.
However, Wikimedia Commons has photos of the bells here and here.

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 pitch (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/Baden-Württemberg.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  3-May-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/05/03
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/07/14
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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