Bell ring of the Pummerin (Linz)

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The bell ring in front of the south portal of the country house

The bell ring of the Pummerin is a large metal ring that has been laid in front of the south portal of the Linz country house in Upper Austria since 1956 . This memorial commemorates the manufacture and removal of the Pummerin , the largest bell in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna .

history

After the destruction of World War II , all of the new Austrian federal states contributed to the reconstruction of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. When the cathedral burned in 1945, the Pummerin, cast in 1711, the largest bell in Vienna's cathedral, was also destroyed. Therefore, the state of Upper Austria had a 2.9 meter high and 20,130 kg heavy bell cast by the St. Florian bell foundry as a replacement . Part of the bell dish came from Pummerin, who was destroyed in 1945. On April 25, 1952, the new Pummerin began her journey from the forecourt of the Linz country house. The low-loader with the heavy load rolled across the demarcation line near Enns , unmolested by the occupying forces at the time . On this trip, over a million people lined the way, and thousands of Viennese received the bell cheering on Stephansplatz .

In 1956, before the Pummerin was raised in the north tower of St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Society of Friends of the City of Linz had a bell ring with an inscription made in VÖEST and laid in the pavement in front of the Linz country house. The model for this is likely to have been the existing bell ring on the main square in Linz .

As part of the preparations for the 2009 Capital of Culture year , the Linz promenade was redesigned and the bell ring was reinstalled in front of the Landhaus in spring 2009.

description

Inscription of the bell ring

In the pavement between the south portal of the Linz country house and the stone arch bridge over the former city moat, a 6 cm wide metal ring is embedded, whose inner diameter of 3.14 meters corresponds exactly to the diameter of the Pummerin.

In the center of the ring is a 62 cm wide and 49 cm "high" bronze plaque with the following text: 

UMFANG DER NEUEN PUMMERIN DIE VOM LAND OBERÖSTERR. DEM WIENER STEPHANSDOM GESPENDET WURDE UND VON DIESEM PLATZ AUS 1952 IHRE TRIUMPHFAHRT NACH WIEN ANTRAT.
GEWIDMET 1956 VON DER
- GESELLSCHAFT DER FREUNDE DER STADT LINZ -

The plaque marks the place where the festively decorated bell was waiting to be transported to Vienna in April 1952.

literature

  • Nikolaus Hofer (editor-in-chief), Heinz Gruber, Wolfgang Klimesch and others: In the focal point of history: Landhaus and promenade in Linz. In: Find reports from Austria. Material booklets. Published by the Federal Monuments Office, Department for Ground Monuments. Series A, special issue 8, Vienna 2009, p. 102, table of contents on bda.gv.at.
  • Heribert Forstner : The Linz country house. Political center of Upper Austria - yesterday, today, tomorrow. Linz 1982, 2007, 13th (extended) edition 2012, p. 131.
  • Otto Constantini: The new Linz bell ring monument. In: Hoamatland Upper Austria. Year 7, Innsbruck 1956/57, issue 8.

Web links

Commons : Bell Ring of the Pummerin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hofer 2009, p. 102.
  2. ↑ a b Forstner 2012, p. 131.
  3. ↑ a b Bell ring of the Pummerin on linz.at.

Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 13.9 ″  N , 14 ° 17 ′ 7.75 ″  E