BOLZANO : ITALY - BZ

*Location:

   Duomo di Santa Maria Assunta
     (Bolzano Cathedral)
   Piazza della Parrocchia
   Bolzano, Italy
   LL: N 46.49769, E 11.35415
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*Contact:

   Dompfarre Marria Himmelfahrt Bozen
   Pfarrplatz 27
   39100 Bozen
   T: 0471 978676
   E: info@dompfarre.bz.it

*Schedule:

   Autoplay Sat & Sun after 11am hour
   strike

*Remarks:

   Bells by Grassmayr, in upper belfry;
   design by Ivo Radakovich of Egna.
   Also a 5-bell peal in lower belfry,
   plus two clock bells.
   Parish uses German language.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 25 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 2010
     with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above        
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2024
*Links:

The Italian Wikipedia article about the Duomo has a section about the bells.
The extensive related Wikimedia Commons category has a photo of the carillon bells.

The parish Website is in German.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Grassmayr bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in Italy.

*Status:
   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
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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