Petersglocke
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- Instance of
- bell
- Named after
- Saint Peter
- Country
- Germany
- Location
- Cologne Cathedral
- Diameter
- 322
- Mass
- 24000
- Image
- Kölner Dom - Dicker Pitter - Probeläuten-9111.jpg
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- Petersglocke, Cologne Cathedral
- inception
- 1923-05-05
- date of official opening
- 1924-11-30
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- Inscription
- Dedicatory inscription
- Another inscription
- The sound of the Petersglocke
- History
- History Detail
- Spring 1918
- Early January 1922
- January 7, 1922
- January 10, 1922
- January 15–21, 1922
- March 13, 1922
- May 5, 1923
- October 15, 1924
- October 20, 1924
- November 30, 1924
- February 1, 1926, at midnight
- 1951
- January 6 2011
- May 5 2023
- Ringing times
- Gallery
- References
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'''''' (; ), commonly referred to as (; or , , i.e. "Fat/Big Peter"), is the bourdon bell of Cologne Cathedral. It was cast in 1923 by Heinrich Ulrich in Apolda and hangs in the belfry of the south tower. With a weight of approximately , a clapper weighing about and a diameter of , it is the second largest (horizontally mounted) freely swinging ringable bell in the world, after the bell of the People's Salvation Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Petersglocke” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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