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Glockenspiel - Carillon |
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| The tower of the Glockenspiel (carillon) is part of the so-called "New Building of the Residenz" commissioned to be built by Prince Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau between 1588 and 1602 as a guest house. |
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| The building was enlarged by Archbishop Max Gandolf von Kuenberg around 1680. |
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Prince Archbishop Johann Ernst Graf Thun had financed the 35 bells through investments in the East Indian Company and purchased them in Antwerpen in 1695 for 6,000 guilders from the famous bell-founder, Melchior de Haze. The Salzburg gunsmith, Franz Sulzer, and the bell-founder, Benedikt Eisenberger, built the drive mechanism and the brass barrel into which the royal clock-maker, Jeremias Sauter, bored the 7,964 holes required to set the carillon in motion.
The carillon has been in operation since 1705 and plays approximately 40 pieces, many of which were specially composed for the carillon by Johann Michael Haydn and Mozart (both father and son). The clockwork, added in 1873, aided by a device made by the clock-maker Johann Baptist Fischer, causes the melody to ring out punctually at 7.00 am, 11.00 am and 6.00 pm
The carillon consists of three main parts:
the clockwork
the barrel and drum
35 bells (engraved with the years 1688 and 1689 and the names of the bell-founders).
The largest bell weighs 380 kg, the smallest 16 kg).
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