*Location:

   Lantern
   Altes Rathaus / Sebastiankirche
   Marktplatz (Block F.1 at G.1)
   Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
   LL: N 49.48929, E 8.46696

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*Player:

   (unknown)

   c.1979 Prof. Richard Laugs

*Contact:

   Stadt Mannheim
   Rathaus E 5
   D-68159  Mannheim
   T: 621 293-0   F: 621 293-9532
   E: stadtverwaltung@mannheim.de

*Schedule:

   Autoplay daily at 0745, 1145, 1745;
   rolls of 6 tunes changed monthly.

*Remarks:

   Tower owned by city, but contains an
   18th c. 4-bell peal owned by church.
   Had some bells as early as 1720.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard carillon of 23 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1956
     with bells made by Schilling   
   Auxiliary mechanisms: E     
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1973

The German Wikipedia article about the Altes Rathaus (Old City Hall) which is the left half of the building has a photo of it, and mentions that bells for it were inaugurated in 1720.  More photos of the building are in the associated Wikimedia Commons category.  The bell tower stands between the Altes Rathaus (on the left) and the Catholic church of St. Sebastian (Sebastiankirche, on the right).

The German Wikipedia article about the Sebastiankirche (Church of St.Sebasian) which is the right half of the building has a paragraph about the bell tower, which is owned by the city.  There are audio clips of the Sunday peal (0:18) and one of the auto-tunes (0:26).

The German Wikipedia article about the city has a paragraph about the marketplace, with another photo of the building, and mentions the automatic carillon playing three times each day.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Schilling 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.

   This page was built from the database on  7-May-21
   based on textual data last updated on 2021/05/05
   and on technical data last updated on 2021/05/02