*Location:

   Willibrordi-Dom
   (Cathedral of St.Willibrord)
   Großer Markt at Willibrordiplatz
   Wesel, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
   LL: N 51.65683, E 6.61064

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*Contact:

   Evengelische Kirchengemeinde Wesel
   Phillip-Reis-Straße 7-9
   D-46483 Wesel
   T: 0281 94 22 94 45
   E: gemeindeamt/@/kirche-wesel DOTde
   - or -
   Kantor Ansgar Schlei
   T: 16 47 8 55
   E: aschlei/@/kirche-wesel DOTde

*Schedule:

   Autoplay Mon-Sat at 10,12,16,18,
   Sundays and church holidays at
   11,13,16,18

*Remarks:

   Number of bells not confirmed.
   Controls modernized in 2012.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 25 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 1994
     with bells made by an unknown maker  
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2024

The German Wikipedia article about the cathedral has a section about the 4-bell peal in the tower, but it does not mention these bells, which are in the roofridge spirelet.

The playing schedule is on a church page.
Another page discusses these bells, though with few details.

YouTube video (0:54) of the bells playing a German tune.

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/Nordrhein-Westfalen.

   This page was built from the database on  8-Sep-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/09/07
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/09/07