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This video presents the bells d1-f1-g1 -h♭1-d2 [re3 -fa3 -sol3 -si♭3 -re4] of S. Martin church in Langenargen, Lake Constance shore. The peal is formed by two historical and three modern bells.
➥ The oldest bell [4] dates from around 1300. Although it does not bear a founder's name, it can be assigned to the Biberach foundry on the basis of its shape and sound.
The second oldest bell [3] also comes from Biberach. It was cast in 1496 and, like the smaller historical bell, is cast in a particularly heavy shape.
These two bells got a sister in 1766. The bell founder Johann Leonhard Rosenlaecher from Constance cast the large "Montfort bell" [I].
These three bells were the ringing of S. Martin for centuries. The large bell hung alone in the enormous belfry of the lower floor, the two smaller bells hung in the uppermost floor. The middle floor was not occupied at that time.
After the wars all three bells were still there. Unfortunately, the large bell had been severely damaged by the conscription, so that it fell completely silent in the early 1950s.
Due to this extensive damage, a repair was not considered reasonable. The Bachert foundry in Heilbronn was commissioned to recast the bell. Thus, in 1953, the "new Montfort bell" was created [1]. The Bachert foundry took over the decoration of the old bell from Rosenlaecher, but cast the new instrument in its own heavy shape.
Together with this Montfort bell and coordinated with it, the ringing of Beuren near Isny was also created: • Beuren (Isny im Allgäu...
The six bells were the exhibition bells of the Bachert foundry at the "Bodenseemesse Friedrichshafen" in 1953.
Finally, in 1958, the three bells in Langenargen were probably no longer sufficient. Two additional bells [2+5] with heavy shapes were cast at Bachert in Heilbronn. The old belfry in the uppermost floor no longer offered enough space for this. So a new steel belfry was erected in the middle floor, which then accommodated the four smaller bells of todays peal.
Almost from the beginning, the tower sway was problematic due to the steel suspension. Revised again and again, new damage became apparent during the recent church renovation. As a result, the entire ringing was adjusted once again. While the three larger bells have been ringing at a slower rate for some time, the two smaller bells have now also been significantly altered in their number of strokes.
Since then, the ringing is clearly divided into two parts. The smaller bells sound relatively weakly, while the three large bells dominate the ringing at will.