Petersglocke des Kölner Domes

[jorgecarrillo2]

No es la más grande, ni es la más armonios, pero hay algo que tiene esta campana que es hipnotizante.

Es ist nicht das größte, noch die meisten harmonisch, aber es ist etwas, dass diese Glocke, ist hypnotisierend hat.

It is not the largest nor the most harmonious, but there is something that has this bell that is mesmerizing.

[Houseandmore]

Wie stabil da alles sein muss. Die Petersglocke ist 24 Tonnen schwer und somit die schwerste glocke der welt.

[stahlglocke]

@Houseandmore Die größte am geraden Joch freischwingende Glocke der Welt, aber bei weitem nicht die Schwerste allgemein!

[qendu]

Wow, geht das nicht bis zum Trommelfell? :-o

[stahlglocke]

Das Geläut aller Glocken ist schon heftig, die Petersglocke in der Mitte verursacht allein höchstens ein sehr angenehmes Magengrummeln...

[orne2142]

cool und laut !!!!

[helueb]

omg!

kein wunder das ständig die fassade bröckelt!

^^

[Leonardo32542]

wann wurde das denn aufgenommen?

[stahlglocke]

Am Vortag von Fronleichnam 2006.

[Schmerzgott]

gut zu erkennen sind die reparatur arbeiten an der glocke

[christophe707]

le paradis des amoureux de cloches!!

[Jerryberlin]

Süßer die Glocken nie klingen ...

[stahlglocke]

;-)))

[stahlglocke]

In diesem Fall hat er aber Recht, der Krakauer Sigismund ist eine g°, kein e°.

[RandyKeithOrton91]

Wow, davon bekommt man sicherlich Ohrenschmerzen

[stahlglocke]

Nö, eigentlich nicht.

[pal05pmajor3]

wouldn't those motors brake under the strain of that huge bell

[stahlglocke]

no, the chains between motors and wheels burst sometimes, that's all.

[pal05pmajor3]

how do the motors take the weight of the bell?

[stahlglocke]

With only 11 PS per motor aprox. Or what do you mean?

[campanilefreak]

Maria Dolens was actually recast twice.

First in 1924 at 11,500 kg and 250 cm in diameter; this wasn't the sound they wanted, so it was recast in 1939 at 17,000 kg and 300cm in diameter. It broke in 1960, so it was recast in 1964 at 22,639 kg and 321 cm in diameter (only 1 cm difference in diameter between Maria Dolens and St. Petersglocke!). St. Petersglocke was cast in 1923, after the original large bell of Cologne (Gloriosa or Kaiserglocke) was destroyed for war munitions.

[campanilefreak]

Does this mean that they don't allow anyone in the belfry when St. Petersglocke is pealing?

[stahlglocke]

Ja, das war früher immer schön!!! Meines Wissens kommt man nur noch über die Turm- und Glockenführungen zum Geläut der großen Glocken in die Stube, ich weiß aber nicht, wieviele Teilnehmer es dazu braucht. Da kann Dir wohl nur die Dombauverwaltung weiterhelfen.

[pal05pmajor3]

bet that takes a few people to get those going doesn't it

[SrWilson]

Nah Motors swing em now.

[campanilefreak]

Actually, all these are swung by electricity now. But (I'm guessing here), it may have taken as many as 24 people to swing the big bell (St. Petersglocke) before it was swung by electricity!

[trainiax]

In the Dordrecht cathedral of the Netherlands, the largest bell (9400 kg) is rung by 3 people. This bell weighs 24,000 kg. Other bells of similar size (over 20,000 kg) can be rung by 8 people.

[campanilefreak]

The "Sigismund" of Cracow, Poland, which is 11,000 kg, is swung by ten to twelve men.

[trainiax]

I guess it varies from one place to another.

[FetteVetteZ06]

9.500 kg, pitch g°!

[campanilefreak]

If you are referring to the "Zigmund" of Cracow, its listen as at least 11,000 kg (sometimes reported as 12,700 kg), and its pitch is e0.

[FetteVetteZ06]

Ask Kurt Kramer, he say g°!

[Maltray]

Hmm not bad, the two largest bells with in the UK are Big Ben, 13.76 metric-tonnes (13.54 ton (long), 15.17 ton (short)

Great Paul, St Paul's Caathedral London 16.5 tons

[CactusBuddy]

thats so dangerously close, was it loud?

[tillybeen]

My mistake, i did mean Germany!

[tillybeen]

It must be so fastinating to be in there with those bells.

[therealTOTOfan]

shit that must have been loud!!!!!

[tillybeen]

This is the main reason of why I went to Italy 3 years ago and it was truly amazing to see and hear bells being rung in such a different way than we ring them in the UK.

[joeb0]

I think sometimes you can hear it a tiny bit in angelstrasse, man those bells are really something else.

[joeb0]

The beauty of that church is imense also.

[alberozzo]

The major sister! very very major!

[Timotheus10]

I bet it's really loud up close. I have very sensitive hearing, and can't handle a lot of loud noises. So that's why I ask.

[cinzano1985]

it is! i live in cologne. but all i can say: it is really beautiful!

[etbuk]

This is a very gigant bell, the sister of the italian "Maria Dolens" at Ronereto (TN)!!!

Very good!!!