WIEN - STS : AUSTRIA

*Location:

   South tower
   St.Stephen's Cathedral
   Stephanplatz
   Rotenturmstrasse/Kärntner Strasse
   Wien (Vienna), Austria
   LL: N 48.20823, E 16.37261

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*Contact:

   Rettet den Stephansdom
   Stephansplatz 3/4.Stock/Tür 7
   T: 513 76 48   F: 51552 3746
   E: mlheindel /@/ stephansdom DOTat

*Schedule:

   Saturday 1745; also on days before a
   holiday, and on holidays before
   the Great Mass (usually 1000).

*Remarks:

   Bells by Pfundner, ranging from 5700 kg
   to 35 kg.
   This tower also holds "Die Pummerin"
   (see under 'Great Bells' below), two
   clock bells, & 3 other bells (unused).
   The North Roman tower holds 6 service
   bells (5 cast in 1772); the South
   Roman tower's bells were destroyed
   in WW II.

*Technical data:

   Motor-swung peal of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G# in the bass octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1960
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Year of latest technical information source is 1979

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

Where the bass bell of this peal ranks among all great bells in Europe.
Where "Die Pummerin" ranks among all great bells in Europe.

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

Index to all tower bell instruments in Austria.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 24-Oct-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/10/22
   and on technical data last updated on 1991/11/21

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