Carillon (Berlin)
The Carillon in Berlin is a hand-play carillon in the Tiergarten district . It is in the immediate vicinity of the House of World Cultures - the former congress hall - in the Großer Tiergarten , roughly where the Kroll Opera House was until 1951 .
The tower of the carillon consists of four individual towers grouped into a square, each 42 meters high and clad with black granite . The plans for the tower come from the architects Dietrich Bangert , Bernd Jansen, Stefan Scholz and Axel Schultes . With 68 church bells , it is the fourth largest carillon in the world and has a range of five and a half octaves . The largest bell weighs 7.8 tons .
The carillon was donated in 1987 on the 750th birthday of the city of Berlin by Daimler-Benz AG under Edzard Reuter with 2.8 million marks , 2.2 million marks came from the state of Berlin. The tower carillon was intended to commemorate the historic carillons in the Parochial Church and the Potsdam Garrison Church , both of which were destroyed in the Second World War .
literature
- Jeffrey Bossin: The Carillons of Berlin and Potsdam. Stapp Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3877765564 .
- Falk Jaeger : Back to styles. Verlag Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-433-02336-0 .
Web links
- The Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten
- Listed by the World Carillon Federation
- The carillon in the focus of a scandal
- Carillon zoo. At: fragdenstaat.de
- A visit to the Carillonneur ( Memento from July 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Detailed description with audio files and graphics for the blind and visually impaired. At: Berlin for the blind
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 4 " N , 13 ° 22 ′ 2" E