Sound Installation: Pummerin Remixed
Saturday, April 23 to Monday, April 25, 2022, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the hour passageway, Landhaus, Linz
A large bell celebrates its anniversary: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the farewell to the Pummerin in Linz.
With a sound installation by Fadi Dorninger, the OÖLKG commemorates its historic and symbolically powerful journey for a united Austria on April 23 and 24. Officially called the Josephine Bell, but better known locally as the “Pummerin” because of its deep tone, it is Austria's largest and heaviest bell with a rich history: Made from the remains of Ottoman cannons left behind after the second siege of Vienna in 1683, consecrated in 1711, and cracked in 1945 during the fire at St. Stephen's Cathedral, the bell was recast in 1951 at the St. Florian bell foundry as a gift from the province of Upper Austria to Vienna. It was first placed in the courtyard of what is now the Francisco Carolinum Linz and then transferred beyond the zone boundaries of the occupied country in the spring of 1952.
Recording date of the bell Pummerin at Stefansdom in Vienna: April 17th, 2022 on Easter Sunday
Photo: Pummerin St. Stephen's Cathedral Vienna July 2008, Wikimedia
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