*Location:

   Domkirche St.Peter
   Liebstrasse at Domfreihof
   Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
   LL: N 49.75626, E 6.64308

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*Contact:

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*Schedule:

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*Remarks:

   Historic peal destroyed by war, 1944.
   New peal by Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen:
   F#0,A0,B0,C#1,D1,E1,F#1,A1,B1,C#2;
   all rehung in 1999-2001 with new wooden
   yokes and steel frame.

*Technical data:

   Motor-swung peal of 10 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F# in the bass octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and/or semitones
     is non-standard; see Remarks above.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1951
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Prior history:
     In 1682, a complete instrument of  8 bells was installed
       with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above
       (0 bells remain from that work.)
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020

Additional information on the technical history of this instrument can be found in a database printout.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of miscellaneous 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/Rhineland-Palatinate.

   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