The sites are listed in order by the year of casting (unknown first), which may be different from the year of installation. Following the year is an indication of the founder's contribution to the instrument:
trad - carillon with traditional keyboard non-trad - carillon with non-traditional mechanism chime - chime (any mechanism) [...] - instrument is defunct; link is to "sites that are no more"
BILBAO : SPAIN ???? C trad Basilica de la Madre de Dios de Begoña LENS : SWITZERLAND ???? F trad Eglise Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens (R. C. Cathedral) LENS : SWITZERLAND ???? E trad Eglise Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens (R. C. Cathedral) ZUORT : SWITZERLAND 1927 C chime Chapel Casa Mengelberg GENEVA - STP/2 : SWITZERLAND 1931 F chime Central spire (fléche) Cathédrale St.Pierre described as Paccard/RŸetschi NEILLSVILLE : USA - WI 1966 C chime United Church of Christ RUESCHLIKON : SWITZERLAND 1967 C chime Nidelbad Hospital FLANTHEY : SWITZERLAND 1972 C chime Eglise Notre-Dame-des-sept-douleurs (Our Lady of Seven Sorrows) TAMINS : SWITZERLAND 1975 C chime Wieland Blumen und Gartenbau AG AARAU : SWITZERLAND 1976 C chime Obertor GBADOLITE : ZAIRE 1978 C chime Mausoleum of Mobutu Sese Seko STEINHAUSEN : SWITZERLAND 1981 C chime Kirchen- und Begegnungszentrum (Chilematt Center) FROIDEVILLE : SWITZERLAND 1984 C chime Centre oecuménique (Ecumenical Center) LONDON - SNTO : ENGLAND -W 1985 C non-trad Swiss Centre ZOFINGEN : SWITZERLAND 1985 F trad* Stiftsturm GENEVA - STP/2 : SWITZERLAND 1986 I chime Central spire (fléche) Cathédrale St.Pierre ETOY : SWITZERLAND 1988 C chime Chapelle de l'EspŽrance WIKON : SWITZERLAND 1989 C chime (unknown) ZOFINGEN : SWITZERLAND 1989 I trad* Stiftsturm GENEVA - STP/2 : SWITZERLAND 1991 E chime Central spire (fléche) Cathédrale St.Pierre CHAMPƒRY : SWITZERLAND 1996 E chime Eglise ZOFINGEN : SWITZERLAND 199? I trad Stiftsturm ROUYN-NORANDA : CANADA - QU 2000 C chime City Hall (H™tel de Ville) CAROUGE : SWITZERLAND 2001 C trad Eglise Sainte-Croix SISIKON : SWITZERLAND 2001 C non-trad Chocosuisse (Hotel Tellsplatte) SAINT MAURICE : SWITZERLAND 2004 C trad Abbey of Saint-Maurice d'Agaune ZOFINGEN : SWITZERLAND 2005 E trad Stiftsturm
Glocken- und Kunstgiesserei H. RŸetschi AG Rain 44 CH-5001 Aarau Switzerland Tel: +41 62 824 43 43 Fax: +41 62 824 08 55 E: info@guk.ch"Glocken- und Kunstgiesserei" may be translated as "Bells- and Art-Foundry".
North American representative:
Michel Lucien Rowan 484, MontŽe du Sourire Rouyn-Noranda J9X 5T1 Canada Tel/Fax: (819)762-2224 E: michelrowan@clochebell.com
The RŸetschi foundry Website is available in German, French, English and Italian.
Michael Rowan's Website is available only in French (Canadian). It has extensive photo galleries of various kinds of work done in eastern Canada.
News article (in French) about the foundry and the changing attitudes toward bells in Switzerland.
Return to Indexes to bellfoundries.
This index page was built from the database on 14-Mar-05 and last updated on 31-Dec-08.
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