*Location:

   South tower
   St.Mary's Church (Marienkirche)
   Marienkirchhof at Schüsselbuden
   Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
   LL: N 53.86785, E 10.68444

   St.Katharinenkirche
   Danzig  (now Gdansk, Poland)

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Carillonist:

   Johannes Unger, Organist
   T: 451 3977024
   E: marienorganist@
        st-marien-luebeck.de

*Contact:

   Pfarramt St.Marien
   Marienkirchhof2-3
   D-23552 Lübeck
   T: 0451/397700
   E: info/@/st-marien-luebeck DOTde

*Schedule:

   Autoplay every full and half hour,
   changing with liturgical seasons.

*Remarks:

   Bells by Schilling/Apolda; 28 cast 1908
   and installed 1910 in Danzig (part
   of a larger set); taken down 1942 for
   war materiel, and recovered near
   Hamburg after WW II.
   Original console, with metal keys in
   three one-octave banks, remains
   on display in tower, replaced by modern
   console from Clock-O-Matic.
   An ancient carillon built in 1508 (or
   1510), described as the oldest in
   Germany, was destroyed by bombing in
   March 1942, along with other swinging
   bells.  Drum superseded by electric
   automatics in 2008.
   Last expansion added missing bourdon,
   recast 6 and retuned 14.

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 37 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     C C   /    C E   
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The presence or absence of a practice console is unknown
   The instrument was enlarged in 2019
     with  7 bells made by Rincker      
   Prior history:
     In 1954, the instrument was begun with 36 bells
       by Schilling   
       (30 bells remain from that work.)
       Pitch of heaviest bell was D  in the middle octave
       Keyboard range was:     C C * /    C C 12
       Transposition was up  2 semitone(s), i.e., from C to D 
       There was one missing bass semitone
   Auxiliary mechanisms: EnM   
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023

One of the new bells being raised on 14 Apr 2019

The DGV page about this carillon has photos of the tower, bells and consoles (old and new).

The church Website does not seem to mention the carillon.

A page about the bells has a photo of the building.

The German Wikipedia article about the building has a photo of it, a section about the carillon and another about the peal.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Schilling bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Where the second phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Schilling bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Rincker bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all German traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all German traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all German traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all traditional carillons in Germany.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Germany/Schleswig-Holstein.

   This page was built from the database on 14-Oct-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/08/02
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/08/02