*Location:

   Dom Tower
   Nygatan 23
   Mariestad, Skaraborgs Län, Sweden
   LL: N 58.70, E 13.82

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*Player:

   Ulf Lindström, Organist
   T: 0501-39 05 22
   E: ulf.lindstrom@svenskakyrkan.se

*Contact:

   Mariestads församling
   *parcel:
     Nygatan 23
     Mariestad
   *postal:
     Box 2
     542 31 Mariestad
   T: 0501-39 05 00   F: 0501-39 05 81
   E: mariestads.forsamling@
        svenskakyrkan.se
   - or -
   T: 0709-170 624
   E: sonny.lovgren@svenskakyrkan.se

*Schedule:

   Automatic play of a psalm tune, daily
   at 9,15,18; Mon-Sat at 15, Sun 1045

*Remarks:

   Also reported as "Mariastad"

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 20 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 Bergholtz   
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1973

The Swedish Church page has a photo of the tower, and gives the schedule and content of the automatic play.  Click "Kontakt" in the menu at left to see a small photo of the building viewed across the rooftops of the town.

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

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in Sweden.

   This page was built from the database on  4-Dec-12
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/06/14
   and on technical data last updated on 1979/08/07

(none available)