Index to carillons and chimes by Grassmayr

The Grassmayr foundry has provided bells for various carillons and chimes in Austria (as well as single bells and peals throughout the world).  See the bottom of this page for contact information and additional notes.

The sites are listed in order by year of installation (unknown first).
Following the year is an indication of the founder's contribution to the instrument:

Finally, there is an indication of the type of instrument:
  trad      - carillon with traditional keyboard
  trad*     - carillon with traditional keyboard now,
              but with other mechanism and/or chime size at the date cited
  non-trad  - carillon with non-traditional mechanism
  non-trad* - carillon with non-traditional mechanism,
              but chime size at the date cited
  mech?     - carillon with unknown mechanism
  chime     - chime (any mechanism)
  great     - great bell (over 4 tonnes weight) not in a chime or carillon
  (...)...  - instrument was replaced; link is to the same site
  [...]     - instrument is defunct; link is to "sites that are no more"
Some links to pages about this foundry can be found after the index.

Grassmayr, Innsbruck, Austria

INNSBRUCK - D/2               : AUSTRIA      1??? ?  chime
   Domtoren Sct.Jacob
Innsbruck                     : AUSTRIA      1??? -  great
   Dom Sct.Jacob (St.Jacob Cathedral)
Innsbruck                     : AUSTRIA      1??? -  great
   Jesuit Church

Mösern                        : AUSTRIA      1950 -  great
   Peace Bell 
GRAZ - GM                     : AUSTRIA      1956 R  non-trad
   Toenendes Erz dat Graz
   (Sounding bronze of Graz)
   Gottfried Maurer residence
UNKNOWN                       : CROATIA      1998 C  chime
   Church
BELGRADE                      : SERBIA       2001 C  non-trad
   Temple of Saint Sava

Contact:

  J. Grassmayr GmbH & Co KG
  Glocken- und Kunstgiesserei
  Leopoldstrasse 53
  A-6010  Innsbruck
  Austria
  
  Tel: ++43-(0)512-59416-0
  Fax: ++43-(0)512-59416-22
  E:   johannes@grassmayr.at
       info@grassmayr.at

Links:

The foundry Website is available in German, English, French, Spanish or Italian.  Included is a very brief sketch of its history, which began in 1599.

A tourism page about the foundry.

A tourist description of the Grassmayr Bell Museum, located at the foundry, reports hours, fees, etc.

Another tourist page about the bell museum has three clickable photos of bells and signs.

On a long page about instrument making in the Tirol, Bell Founding gets the first paragraph, reporting an astonishing number of artisans besides the Grassmayr family.

Peterson Strobe Tuners reports on the use of their equipment at the Grassmayr foundry, with clickable photos.

This index page was built from the database on 2-May-06 and last updated on 3-Apr-08.

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