Storm bells
Storm chimes were an alarm that was usually carried out with a church bell to gather the population about an impending danger or challenge. It is a continuous ringing without suggestion at a frequency of about 60 beats per minute. The danger could be a fire, a storm, a flood or an expected attack or hold-up. The custom of the weather ringing differed from such an alarm .
The most common was the storm ringing of a fire bell , which is often different from the praying bell . According to the Economic-Technological Encyclopedia of 1841, this meant “giving the sign of a fire with a bell in order to prompt everything to be extinguished quickly”. The storm bell was also rung in the event of warlike events or uprisings: “Often this storm ringing is also done by the rebels themselves in order to gather citizens and peasants for a common cause [...]. The storm chime is therefore a signal both to riot and to dampen the riot, depending on the source from which it emerges. "
The expression storm chimes is still used today as a phrase for the uninterrupted or repeated ringing of a doorbell . The fire brigade's alarm systems today use sirens and electronic media.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://campanologie.free.fr/pdf/Code_et_langage_des_cloches.pdf , p. 9. (accessed on Oct. 22, 2014).
- ^ Johann Georg Krünitz: Oeconomisch-Technologische Encyclopädie , Vol. 177, Pauli, Berlin 1841, p. 442.
- ↑ Johann Georg Krünitz: Oeconomisch-Technologische Encyclopädie , Pauli, Berlin 1841, Vol. 177, p. 477.
- ↑ Duden online: http://www.duden.de/node/649016/revisions/1343707/view , meaning no.2.