*Location:

   Zagreb Cathedral
   (Cathedral of the Assumption of the
    Blessed Virgin Mary and Sts.Stephen
     and Ladislav)
   Kaptol
   Zagreb, Croatia
   LL: N 45.81464. E 15.97952

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*Contact:

   Archdiocese of Zagreb
   Kaptol 31, p.p.398
   10001 Zagreb
   T: 1 4894 878
   E: tiskovni @ zg-nadbiskupija DOThr

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Three bells in south tower, 5 in north;
   great bell formerly rung by a team
   of six men.  Tower clock (Vienna, 1900)
   disused, on display.

   G, 6450 kg, "Sveto Trojstvo"

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the bass octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is not applicable
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in unknown year
     with bells made by an unknown maker 
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is unknown

The Croatian name of the cathedral is Katedrala Uznesenja Blažene Djevice Marije i svetih Stjepana i Ladislava

An article (in Croatian) about the bell ringer has a partial photo of the highly decorated great bell; click on that to see the whole bell.

The English Wikipedia article about the cathedral has photos of it, but barely mentions the bells.

Video at night (9:58)
Daytime video (5:09)

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all European chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Croatia.

   This page was built from the database on 25-Aug-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/08/11
   and on technical data last updated on 2025/07/25