Potsdam carillon
The Potsdamer Glockenspiel (or Glockenspiel of the Garrison Church ) is a carillon on the plantation in Potsdam , in which the historic carillon of the Garrison Church was reproduced about 200 meters to the north.
history
A carillon by the Amsterdam foundry Jan Albert de Grave (1666–1734) had already been installed in the small tower of the first garrison church since 1722. When the entire structure was demolished because of the swampy subsoil, the 35 bells of the carillon were dismantled in 1730. The carillon maker Arnoldus Carsseboom (1684–1758), who also came from Amsterdam, rebuilt the carillon in the tower lantern on the fourth floor of the new church tower in 1734–35, now supplemented by five large bass bells made in Berlin by Johann Meurer. In its expanded form, Friedrich Nicolai said in his description of the royal residence cities of Berlin and Potsdam in 1786 , "one of the most beautiful in Europe and has much larger and stronger bells than the one on the Parochial Church in Berlin."
The last cantor of the Garrison Church, Otto Becker (1870–1954), arranged around 200 sacred and secular songs for the carillon; the radio broadcast many of his concerts. The bells of the garrison church on Breite Strasse at the corner of Dortustrasse rang for the last time on the night of bombing during World War II on April 14, 1945; they melted in the fire of the bombing.
The Traditionsgemeinschaft Potsdamer Glockenspiel eV , an initiative of Lieutenant Colonel Max Klaar , built a replica of the carillon of the Potsdam Garrison Church in 1987 on the parade ground of the Winkelmann barracks of the Bundeswehr in Iserlohn , which was supposed to be a reminder of the Prussian tradition. After reunification, it was donated to the city of Potsdam and, after controversial discussions, was placed on the Plantagenplatz on April 14, 1991.
Building
The carillon consists of 40 bells. The largest weighs 1900 kilograms and is 1.5 meters in diameter. The carillon can be played manually or automatically. As has been the case since 1797, the melody Lobe den Herren is played every full hour and the song Ub always Treu und Righteousness every half hour .
In August 2019, well-known scientists and cultural workers turned a petition to the Lord Mayor of Potsdam and the Federal President as patron of the reconstruction project, demanding that the replica carillon be torn down because of its revisionist, right-wing extremist and militarist inscriptions. On September 5, 2019, the Lord Mayor of Potsdam Mike Schubert had the carillon temporarily turned off. Leibniz Center for Contemporary Historical Research was asked to provide an assessment. In the opinion of the chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Potsdam Garrison Church Foundation, Prof. Paul Nolte, the inscriptions are "unreasonable".
Web links
- Potsdam Glockenspiel on info-potsdam.de
- Philipp Oswalt: History of the replica carillon from Iserlohn on http://lernort-garnisonkirche.de
- Switching off the carillon - Article pnn
Individual evidence
- ↑ The centennial melody of the glockenspiel Die Welt , May 9, 2014
- ↑ Die Welt (ed.) Garrison Church Potsdam: History and Reconstruction Berlin 2014
- ↑ Philipp Oswalt: The Iserlohn Glockenspiel
- ↑ K. Gass The invasion of the "Traditionsgemeinschaft Potsdamer Glockenspiel eV" UTOPIE Kreativ, H. 105 (July) 1999, pp. 5–11 and the history of the paratroopers in the paratrooper battalion 273 from Iserlohn
- ↑ Petition "Break with the right-wing and militaristic traditions of the Garrison Church Potsdam"
- ↑ Potsdamer Latest News of September 4, 2019: Glockenspiel of the Garrison Church is switched off
- ↑ Potsdam's latest news of November 17, 2019: The carillon is "unreasonable"
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '50.1 " N , 13 ° 3' 12.6" E