*Location:

   Kaufhaus Abt
   Münsterplatz
   Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
   LL: N 48.39898, E 9.99102

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*Contact:

   Kaufhaus Abt
   Münsterplatz
   D-89073 Ulm

*Schedule:

   On the hour; also 1715 daily

*Remarks:

   The glass-doored enclosure opens when
   the bells are playing.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 15 porcelain bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    NONE  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1979
     with porcelain bells made by Meissen     
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  - meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:   (unknown)
     Height of highest level of bells:  (unknown)
     Belfry openness:  45%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020

A Waymarking page for these bells has 26 photos.

A page about the bells (in German)

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meissen porcelain factory, in this region and in the world.

[Instruments with porcelain bells are not indexed 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/Baden-Württemberg.

   This page was built from the database on 15-Jul-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/07/14
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/07/14