*Location:

   Bredtvet kirke
   St.Johannes Apostel og Evangelist
   Bredtvetveiein
   Bredtvedt,
     Oslo, Norway
   LL: N 59.94663, E 10.85921

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page
Local map, with both overview and detail

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Two largest bells also swing.
   Originally built for a Lutheran (state
   church) parish, but has been leased
   to the Oslo Catholic Diocese since
   April 2013.

   g3, 540mm, 95kg, 1977, Olsen

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 12 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the treble octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1977
     with bells made by Olsen            
   Auxiliary mechanisms: S2    
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  - meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    8 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:  11 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  50%
   Year of latest technical information source is 1992

An information page about the church has a tiny photo of it in the upper left corner.

The Norwegian Wikipedia article about the building has a paragraph about the bells, and two photos that show the tower.

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

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in Norway.

   This page was built from the database on 29-Dec-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/12/08
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/12/08