*Location:

   Stadtturm
   Stadtplatz
   Vilshofen, Bayern, Germany
   LL: N 48.63439, E 13.18566

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*Contact:

   Stadt Vilshofen an der Donau
   Stadtplatz 27
   D-94474 Vilshofen an der Donau
   T: 08541/208-0
   E: info@vilshofen.de

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 24 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1994
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2022

On the city Website, a history page (in German) records the installation of the bells.
A city page about the tower has 4 photos of it but does not mention any of the bells.

The German Wikipedia article about the tower mentions the installation of the glockenspiel but gives no details.  It does have a photo of the tower and a photo of the memorial plaque for the glockenspiel.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown 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/Bavaria.

   This page was built from the database on 16-Sep-22
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/09/09
   and on technical data last updated on 2022/09/09