*Location:
Sw.Katarzyna (St.Catharine's Church)
Katarzynki street at Rajska street
(at Wielkie Mlyny street)
Gdansk, Poland
LL: N 54.35406, E 18.65113
*Formerly identified as:
Katharinenkirche
Danzig, Westpreussen
(West Prussia; Germany)
- or -
Freistadt Danzig (Free City of Danzig)
*Player:
Malgorzata Fiebig E: malgosiafiebig@hotmail.com - and - Monica Kazmierczak E: monika_kazmierczak@poczta.onet.pl - and - Karol Meissner E: carollus@wp.pl
*Contact:
Muzeum Zegarów Wiezowych
Oddzial MHMG
(Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Gdanska)
Gdansk, Ul.Wielke Mlyny
T: (058)305 64 92
E: zegary@mhmg.gda.pl
(Tower Clock Museum
St.Catharine's Church
Gdansk, Poland)
- or -
Polish Carillon Society
ul. Dluga 47
80-278 Gdansk, Poland
T: (058)7679128 or 3056492
E: biuro@carillon.pl
carillon.poland@wp.pl*Schedule:
(unknown)
*Remarks:
Original bells by J.N.Derck of Hoorn, cast in 1737; 10 recast and 13 retuned in 1739; all destroyed by fire in 1905. Replacement by Schilling of Apolda, cast 1908, installed 1910, along with 5 church bells from F 10.4 tonnes, with mechanisms by E.Korfhage & Sons, Buhr, nr Osnabrück; taken down in 1940 for war materiel, but 28 bells survived and are now part of carillon at LÜBECK, GERMANY (q.v.); the smallest of the 5 church bells remains here. First 3 octaves of present bells cast in stages, 1986-9, ded. 1 Sep.1989; a playing console was provided in 1990 but never connected.
*Technical data:
Traditional carillon of 49 bells
Pitch of heaviest bell is C in the middle octave
Transposition is unknown
Keyboard range: ---- / ----
The instrument was enlarged in 1998
with bells made by Eijsbouts
Prior history:
In 1989, the instrument was begun with 37 bells
by Eijsbouts
In 1910, a complete instrument was installed
with bells made by Sergeys
(00 bells remain from that work.)
In 1739, 10 bells were recast or replaced
with bells made by the maker cited in Remarks above
(00 bells were added in and/or remain from that work.)
In 1738, the instrument was begun with 35 bells
by the maker cited in Remarks above
(00 bells remain from that work.)
Year of latest technical information source is 2006
*Links:
WCF photos of the tower and the bells
Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Derck bellfoundry,
in this region
and in the world.
Where the second phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Schilling bellfoundry,
in this region
and in the world.
Where the third phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry,
in this region
and in the world.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry,
in this region
and in the world.
Ranking among all European traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European traditional carillons by year of completion.
Index to all traditional carillons in Poland.
Index to all tower bell instruments in Poland.
*Status:
This page was built from the database on 20-May-06 based on textual data last updated on 2006/05/15 and on technical data last updated on 2006/04/12
Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.
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