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Wuppertal Clock Museum — Clock and Carillon

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Wuppertal Clock Museum — Clock and Carillon

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Wuppertal Clock Museum — Clock and Carillon

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Location: Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Tevion1505 (Andreas)

June 20, 2021

Since 1951, in a niche in the facade of the building in which the museum is located, a carillon has been sounding (audio file / listening sample? / I) with originally 12, then to 28, later to 37 extended bells, every day at 10, 12, 4 and 6 p.m. with various songs, with two Wuppertal originals from the turn of the century, Zuckerfritz and August Kallenbach (see also: List of Wuppertal originals), making their rounds around the bell tower. Every quarter of an hour the Zeitgeist Chronos appears and turns his hourglass over. The reaper Death comes out of his door on the hour and thus reminds of the ephemeral nature of all existence. With the swing of his scythe he symbolically cuts off the past hour. The carillon is one of the sights of Wuppertal.

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertaler_Uhrenmuseum

The Abeler building is currently being renovated, and the carillon will probably be silent until a new tenant moves in, but should be active again in the future

Source: wz.de/nrw/wuppertal/neue-plaene-fuer-das-ehemalige-ladenlokal-von-juwelier-abeler-in-wuppertal_aid-55947821

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Tevion1505 (Andreas)

June 18, 2021

The three-wheel clock on the facade of the building on the corner of Poststrasse and Schwanenstrasse was built in the years before 1962 by Georg Abeler from a horse-drawn vehicle and drawbar that broke up in an accident. The unique specimen received widespread attention in the press, including the Japan Times published an article on the subject on January 27, 1962.

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertaler_Uhrenmuseum

Unfortunately, I can't say anything about the current status of the clock and glockenspiel.

About the operator at the time (same source): On March 24, 1955, the Wuppertal master goldsmith and watchmaker Georg Abeler auctioned the watch collection of the late lawyer Heinrich Nils Antoine-Feill on the Hohenzollernring in Cologne. This event is considered to be the hour of birth of the Wuppertal Clock Museum. As the crowning glory of his watch collecting hobby, Georg Abeler opened the Wuppertal Watch Museum in the vaults of the parent company on Poststrasse in 1958, which over time has developed into one of the most universal collections on the subject of watches and time measurement with around 2000 exhibits from 5000 years. The museum's director was his son Jürgen Abeler until his death in 2010, and his son Henrick Abeler since then.

The museum was closed on September 10, 2016. Henrick Abeler explained: "In the past few years the number of visitors has continuously decreased, which meant that in the end we were only open for three hours on Saturdays and offered guided tours by appointment." According to Abeler, there were no plans for a subsequent use of the rooms of the clock museum in the basement at the time of the closure. The clock and carillon were extensively repaired at the time. In autumn 2017, the company also announced the closure of the watch shop and the discontinuation of operations, which still had a second sales point in the City-Arkaden.

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Andi

June 19, 2022

Even if the watch museum is unfortunately closed: there is still a digital visit version that can be found here: wz.de/nrw/wuppertal/das-uhrenmuseum-kann-digital-besucht- werden_aid-24985857

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Wuppertal Clock Museum — Clock and Carillon

1. Elberfeld Town Hall – Mirke Station loop from Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof

2. Mirker Hain – Mirker Hain loop from Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof

3. Bartholomäusstraße Viaduct – Rott Tunnel loop from Ohligsmühle

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