List of carillons in Germany

Carillons, musical instruments of bells in the percussion family, are found throughout Germany. Several institutions maintain registries on the location and statistics of carillons. Some registries specialize in counting specific types of carillons. For example, the War Memorial and Peace Carillons registry counts instruments which serve as war memorials or were built in the name of promoting world peace (and tracks one in Germany); the counts carillons throughout the country, along with the rest of the world. In 2025, the casting of bells and playing music on bells was added to Germany's list of intangible cultural heritage.

The German Carillon Association counts carillons throughout Germany, and according to the organization, there are 49 in total. They are distributed across 41 cities; in four of themBerlin, Bonn, Cologne, and Hamburgthere are more than one. The population has a wide range in total weights, with bourdons spanning from in Altenburg and Schwerin to in Halle (Saale). They also span a wide range of notes, from 23 in Bonn and Lößnitz up to 76 in Halle (Saale). The carillons were all exclusively constructed after 1900 by a mix of bellfounders, many of them German. The majority of carillons are transposing instruments, and often transpose such that the lowest note on the keyboard is B or C. There are also two mobile carillons, which were constructed and are owned by two German bellfounders: and Sandkuhl.

According to the , the carillons of Germany account for seven percent of the world's total.

Criteria for inclusion The defines a carillon as an instrument of at least 23 cast bronze bells hung in fixed suspension, played with a traditional keyboard of batons, and tuned in chromatic order so that they can be sounded harmoniously together. It may designate instruments of 15 to 22 bells built before 1940 as "historical carillons". Its member organizationsincluding for example the German Carillon Associationalso define a carillon with those restrictions. This list contains only those carillons that meet the definition outlined by these organizations.

List of carillons

+ Location City Bells Bourdon weight Total weight Range andtransposition Bellfounder(s) kg lb kg lb Aachen Town Hall Aachen 49 style="text-align: center;" Royal Eijsbouts 1978 Altenburg 24 style="text-align: center;" 1981 Schloss Johannisburg Aschaffenburg 48 Up 12 semitones Royal Eijsbouts 1969 French Cathedral Berlin 60 Up 1 semitone / Pößneck 1987 St. Nicholas Church 41 style="text-align: center;" 1987 Parochialkirche 52 Up 4 semitones Petit & Fritsen / Royal Eijsbouts 2016 Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten 68 style="text-align: center;" Royal Eijsbouts 1987 Bonn 23 Up 24 semitones Royal Eijsbouts 1979 62 Up 8 semitones 1962 Buchen 24 colspan="2" Up 24 semitones Royal Eijsbouts 2015 Chemnitz 48 Up 5 semitones 1978 Cologne City Hall Cologne 48 None (concert pitch) Royal Eijsbouts 1958 St. Maria in der Kupfergasse 38 colspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" Royal Eijsbouts 2010 Düren 37 Up 7 semitones Petit & Fritsen 1964 St. Aldegundis Emmerich am Rhein 43 Up 5 semitones Petit & Fritsen 2000 Eppingen 49 Up 5 semitones Karlsruher 1987 St Bartholomew's Church Erfurt 60 None (concert pitch) 1979 Old St. Nicholas Church Frankfurt 47 style="text-align: center;" Saints Philip and Jacob Church Geisa 49 Up 10 semitones Royal Eijsbouts 2003 Gera 37 Up 24 semitones / Pößneck 1988 Gustav Adolf Stave Church Goslar 49 (Range not available)Up 14 semitones / Perner / Buer 2002–05 Halle (Saale) 76 style="text-align: center;" / Metz 1993 Hamburg 42 Up 4 semitones 1938 St. Nicholas Church 51 None (concert pitch) Royal Eijsbouts 1992 Hanover 49 Up 13 semitones 1960 Heidelberg 26 Up 24 semitones 1961 Herrenberg 50 Up 12 semitones Royal Eijsbouts 2012 Illertissen 51 Up 12 semitones Royal Eijsbouts 2006 Kaiserslautern 47 style="text-align: center;" 2009 Karlskirche Kassel 47 Up 10 semitones Kiel 50 Lößnitz 23 Up 10 semitones 1939 St. Mary's Church Lübeck 37 colspan="2" None (concert pitch) Magdeburg 47 Up 5 semitones / 1974 Melle Town Hall Melle 37 style="text-align: center;" Royal Eijsbouts 2010 Munich 65 None (concert pitch) Royal Eijsbouts / Czudnochowsky / Gloria 2012 Old Town Hall Offenburg 25 style="text-align: center;" / / Pößneck 1989 Potsdam 24 Up 36 semitones 1985 Rockenhausen 37 colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" Royal Eijsbouts 2014 Rostock 32 style="text-align: center;" / 1986 Saalfeld 25 Up 3 semitones 1924/1986 Schirgiswalde 29 colspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" / 1991 Schwerin 26 style="text-align: center;" 1988 Wechselburg 36 style="text-align: center;" / / Pößneck 1988 Old Schoolyard Weilbach 39 Metz 2006 Marktkirche Wiesbaden 49 ???????? Würzburg 51 Up 9 semitones Petit & Fritsen 2005

List of mobile carillons + Name City Bells Bourdon weight Total weight Range andtransposition Bellfounder(s) kg lb kg lb Perner Carillon Passau 49 Up 12 semitones 2012 Sandkuhl Carillon Rostock 37 Up 12 semitones Sandkuhl 2004

List of carillons in Germany

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