WINSEN : GERMANY

*Location:

   Marstall Winsen
   Schloßplatz
   Winsen an der Luhe,
     Niedersachsen, Germany
   LL: N 53.36244, E 10.20660
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   Stadt Winsen
   Schloßplatz 1
   D-21423 Winsen (Luhe)
   T: 04171 6570   F: 04171 657168
   E: info/@/stadt-winsen DOTde

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 15 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 1999
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2023
*Links:

The Wikimedia Commons category for the building has nine photos of the building, bells and memorial plaque.

The German Wikipedia article about the town has a paragraph about the ancient building and mentions the modern glockenspiel.

An atlas of memorials has a photo of the building

The city Website has one minor mention of 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 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/Lower Saxony.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  9-Aug-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/08/06
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/08/06
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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