*Location:

   Stadhuistoren
   Voorstraat at Raadhuisstraat
    & Raadhuissteeg
   Harlingen (Harns),
     Friesland, Netherlands
   LL: N 53.17499, E 5.41822

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*Contact:

   Gemeente Harlingen
   *parcel:
     Voorstraat 35
   8861 BD  Harlingen
   *postal:
     Postbus 10.000
   8860 HA  Harlingen
   T: 14 0517  (local)
     517 492 222  (outside local area)
   E: info/@/harlingen DOTnl
   - or -
   E: s.elsinga/@/home DOTnl

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Tower also holds a 520kg bell cast
   1648 by Jacob Noteman of Leeuwaarden,
   which strikes the hour and half hour;
   also a 165kg bell cast 1684 by
   Petrus Overney of Leeuwaarden; rung
   middays 1300-10 & evenings 2150-2200.
   Previous chime destroyed by fire.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 26 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the treble octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     C D   /    NONE  
   There is one missing bass semitone
   The whole instrument was installed in 1975
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   Prior history:
     Previously, a complete instrument of 22 bells was installed
       with bells made by an unknown maker
       (0 bells remain from that work.)
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1976

Additional information on the technical history of this instrument can be found in a database printout.

The Dutch Wikipedia article about the city has a photo of the tower in the gallery at the bottom of the page, but it is not identified; the bells are visible in the open octagonal belfry.

A Dutch Website about the history of Harlingen has an inventory and history of single bells in the city (under Anders > Klokken), which includes the J.Noteman bell; but it does not mention the 1975 bells or the older chime.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in NL/Friesland.

   This page was built from the database on  6-Apr-19
   based on textual data last updated on 2019/02/27
   and on technical data last updated on 2019/03/05