BUDAPEST : HUNGARY

*Location:

   Méria Magdolna Torony
   (Mary Magdalene tower)
   Úri utca at Kapisztrán tér
   Budapest, Hungary
   LL: N 47.50383, E 19.02890
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   Autoplay on the full and half hours

*Remarks:

   Only the tower of a ruined church
   survives; bells face the former body.

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized instrument or collection of 24 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   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 2020
*Links:

A Waymarking page for these bells has 11 photos of the building and bells.

A history page mentions that the bells are where the organ loft used to be.

The English Wikipedia article about the church has a photo that shows the location of the bells, but it does not mention them.

Photo of the bells

Other photos can be found in the Wikimedia category for the church.

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

Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European non-traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Hungary.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  7-Jul-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/07/05
   and on technical data last updated on 2020/07/05
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

[TowerBells Home Page] [Site data top page] [Credits and Disclaimers] [Feedback]

Please send comments or questions about this page to csz_stl@swbell.net.