Peasant bell

A farmer's bell is a mostly free-standing bell in the middle of a drubbing . These bells were widespread in the Ravensberger Land, for example . The bell was in all farming communities set up, which did not have its own church, and belonged to the farming life in Ravensberger Land. The bell was relatively small and hung in a specially erected "bell tree". The bell tree was nothing more than a wooden mast with a support for the freely suspended bell and a small wooden roof as protection from the weather. The mast boom was completed by a pull rope to ring the bell. The bell ringer rang for daily prayer , funeral and fire. The use of the farmer's bell in the Ravensberger Land is predominantly religious - in contrast to the farmer's bell in the Schleswig-Flensburg district , which was the emblem of the community leaders.

Today only a few peasant bells remain. Such a bell can still be seen in the Schwenningdorf-Stukenhöfen district of Rödinghausen .