Gloriosa (bell)
Gloriosa (Latin for the glorious, the glorious ) is a name or a designation for church bells , which has been found for some bells since the Middle Ages , usually the largest of the peal. Few of them are called Gloriosa in inscriptions .
Medieval bells called Gloriosa
Casting year | Caster | Place, church | Chime |
Inscribed called Gloriosa |
comment |
13th century | unknown | Herford Cathedral | it 1 | NAM GLORIOSA VOCOR | |
around 1300 | unknown | Andernach, St. Mary's Assumption | f 1 | GLOSA | |
1345 | unknown | Mulhouse, Divi Blasii | h 0 | - | |
1378 | unknown | Zerbst, St. Nicolai | h 0 | - | |
1433 | Ghert Klinghe | Bremen Cathedral | h 0 | maria gloriosa | |
1459 | Ghert Klinghe | Misselwarden , St. Katharinen | c 1 | ? | |
1468 | Wilken Kruse | Mölln, St. Nicolai | b 0 | ? | |
1477 | Theodoricus Reinhard | Leipzig, St. Thomas Church | a 0 | gloriosa | This gloriosa bears incised bell drawings that are rare in art history and that Cornelius Gurlitt assigned to Nikolaus Eisenberg |
1484 | Martin Moller | Frankfurt Cathedral | b 0 | gloriosa | City clock and council bell, † 1867 Gloriosa (Frankfurt Cathedral) |
1497 | Gerhard van Wou | Erfurt Cathedral | e 0 | Laude […] gloriosa | Gloriosa (Erfurt Cathedral) |
Newer bells
- St. Maria zur Wiese in Soest (strike tone h 0 , cast in 1856 by Wilhelm Rincker in Westhofen )
- St. Bartholomew Cathedral in Frankfurt (strike note e 0 , cast in 1877 by Hermann Große), and its predecessor of the same name (b 0 , cast in 1484 by Martin Moller)
- St. Marien , Neuss (strike tone b 0 , cast in 1902 by the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen ) ( destroyed in the First World War)
- Archabbey of Sankt Ottilien (strike tone a 0 , cast in 1950 by Karl Czudnochowsky in Erding)
- Ulm Minster (strike tone as 0 , cast in 1956 by the Kurtz foundry in Stuttgart)
- Bell museum in the Herrenberg collegiate church (strike tone b 0 , cast in 1965 by Emil Eschmann )
- St. Marien , Neuss (strike note as 1 , cast 1985 by Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher )
- Stadtkirche (Freudenstadt) (strike tone total 0 , cast in 1999 by the Bachert bell foundry in Heilbronn)
- Basilica Duderstadt (chime as 0 , cast 2011 by the Bachert foundry in Karlsruhe)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt : Thomaskirche. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 17th booklet: City of Leipzig (Part I) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1895, p. 58.