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First we hear the Karolus, after 1'40 joined by the Grote Lofklok. The whole peal starts around 4'00. The bells are ringing on occasion of Assumption of Mary.
The tower of Our Lady Cathedral houses one of the largest and heaviest bell ensembles of Belgium. The bells represent no less than five centuries of bell casting art of the historic Netherlands. In particular, the bells Karolus and Mary are among the finest of the past and present.
Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the tower housed two carillons, owned by respectively the city of Antwerp and the cathedral. The cathedral carillon had fallen into disuse. It was, except for the ringing bells, removed from the tower in the first half of the twentieth century.
During the 1930s there were changes made to the bell chair of the cathedral tower. As an unfortunate consequence, the two largest belles, Karolus and Thomas, were hung so that they risk to hit each other when rung simultaneously. Fortunately the bells stayed undamaged after such an accident. Consequently they never ring together.
The removed cathedral carillon bells were hung after the Second World War in the rebuilt tower of St. Catherine Church in Hoogstraten. The smallest remaining ringing bells of the Cathedral were replaced as well by two new ones that would fit better in the ensemble.
The tower would certainly deserve a new bell chair that would do justice to this exceptional ensemble.
Composition: As° (Bes°) C' Cis' D' Es' As' Bes'
As°
Karolus
Casted 1507
by Willem and Jasper Moer ('s-Hertogenbosch)
Diameter 212 cm
Weight 6434 kg
(Bes°
Henricus also called Thomas
Recasted 1770
by Joris Du Mery [Brugge]
Diameter 177 cm
Weight appr. 4200 kg)
C'
Maria
Casted 1459
by Johannes and Willem Hoerken ['s-Hertogenbosch]
Diameter 164 cm
Weight appr. 3000 kg
Cis'
Do-klok
Casted 1655
by François and Pieter Hemony (Amsterdam)
Diameter 147 cm
Weight appr. 1900 kg
D'
Grote Lofklok
Casted 1655
by François and Pieter Hemony (Amsterdam)
Diameter 141 cm
Weight appr. 1650 kg
Es'
Kleine Lofklok
Casted 1655
by François and Pieter Hemony (Amsterdam)
Diameter 132 cm
Weight appr. 1400 kg
As'
Casted 1957
by Marcel Michiels (Tournai)
Diameter 94 cm
Weight appr. 600 kg
Bes'
Casted 1957
by Marcel Michiels (Tournai)
Diameter 82 cm
Weight appr 450 kg
Data mainly coming from Jo Haazen (1979). Rond de zingende toren. Antwerpen: De Vlijt. p. 47-58.