MAGDEBURG - STM : GERMANY-DDR

*Location:

   Klosterkirche St.Marien
   Regierungstraße at Kreuzgangstraße
   Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
   LL: N 52.12725, E 11.63651
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   Rung annually on Jan.16, anniversary
   of the 1945 bombing of the city.

*Remarks:

   Designed by Peter & Margarete Schilling
   Cast 1977, installed 1978;
   C1,D1,E1,G1,A1,C2,A2,C#3,E3,F#3

*Technical data:

   Motor-swung peal of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1977
     with bells made by Schilling   
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E32   
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020
*Links:

The German Wikipedia article about the abbey has photos of the building and a paragraph about the bells.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Schilling 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/Saxony-Anhalt.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 22-Jun-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/06/04
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/06/04
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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