!!!Pummerin

Pummerin, bell in  St. Stephen´s Cathedral in Vienna and 
the largest in Austria. The old Pummerin bell, which was cast in 1711 
by J.  Achamer with the metal from the cannon balls used by the Turks 
during the 2nd  Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683, was destroyed during 
World War II when the Stephansdom was severely damaged by fire on 
April 12, 1945. The bell, which weighed 22,511 kg and hung in the 
south tower, was called the Josephinian bell at first, but was later 
popularly called "Pummerin". The new Pummerin bell, 
dedicated by the province of Upper Austria, was cast from the metal of 
the old Pummerin on September 5, 1951 in the St. Florian foundry 
after an unsuccessful first cast. The bell has a diameter of 
3.14 m, a height of 2.94 m, weighs 21.383 kg and is the 
second largest bell in western Europe after the bell in the Cathedral 
of Cologne (Germany) and the fifth-largest bell in the world. It is 
decorated with reliefs depicting the battle for Vienna in 1683 and the 
Stephansdom fire of 1945. The new Pummerin bell was rung for the first 
time on April 27, 1952. It was outfitted with an electric ringer in 
1953, and has been hanging in the north tower since October 1957. The 
Pummerin is only rung at the following occasions: on principal feasts 
of the ecclesiastical year (Easter night, Pentecost, Corpus Christi, 
the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Christmas Eve), on the feast day of 
St. Stephen (patrocinium), on New Year´s eve, on the death 
of a pope or the Archbishop of Vienna or the announcement of a new 
papacy or a new Archbishop of Vienna, on All Souls´ Day for the 
victims of World War II.


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