Overview
- The 15-ton bronze bell reached Magdeburg Cathedral by special transport from Innsbruck and now sits in the Dom garden.
- It is slated to become Germany’s second-largest bell after Cologne Cathedral’s “Dicker Pitter.”
- Installation awaits tower modifications and new bell frames, with no timeframe from the Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, which owns the cathedral.
- Plans call for a crane lift into the south tower that will require temporarily removing parts of a Gothic window.
- The Domglockenverein envisions a 12-bell peal, with eight new bells already in Magdeburg and three historic bells in use, and it hopes to finish before 2031.