The Pummerin is the largest church-bell of the step Hans cathedral in Vienna.

The old Pummerin was poured in the year 1711 under bishop Franz Ferdinand baron von Rummel von Johannes Achamer. As raw material 300 cannons were used, which had been left by the Turks in the second Turk FE storage in the year 1683 before Vienna. It weighed 22.511kg and hung in the south tower. She was called Josephini bell, however soon by the population the Pummerin original was called. It was destroyed in the Second World War with one by flying sparks caused fire of the step Hans cathedral on 12 April 1945.

Poured in the year 1951 from the Land of the Federal Republic upper Austria from the material of the old bell in sank Florian a new. The first casting failed, but second was finished on 5 September 1951. With a diameter of 3,14m, a height of 2,94m and a weight of 21.383kg it is after the pc. Peter bell in Cologne cathedral the second largest bell of Western Europe and fifth-largest of the world. In its reliefs it shows motives of the Turk FE storage and of the fire of the step Hans cathedral 1945.

The first time it on 27 April 1952 one rang. Since 1957 it hangs in the north tower. After an outdated electromechanical control she got 2003 an electronic, which permits an even to a rockers of the bell and so that does not represent a so large load for the

It one rings only to high catholic holidays such as Easter, Whitsuntide, Fronleichnam, Ascension Day, holy evening, Stefanitag and the turn of the year, in addition with Inthronisation or death of a Pope or the archbishop of Vienna, as well as with the funeral of a Federal President and to all souls to the Angedenken of the pleasures of the Second World War. An exception, when it also to a national holiday one rang, was the 15. May 1955 on the occasion of the signing of the Austrian state contract.

2004 rang it twice additionally, with the funerals of Franz cardinal king and Federal President Thomas Klestil.

On 12 April 2005 it rang out to the memory of the destruction of the old bell before 60 years.

Also of the tower of the dear woman cathedral in rings out a "“Pummerin"” bell mentioned, which originates from the year 1512 and applies with their 131 hundredweights (6.55 tons) as the largest bell in Swabia.

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