This video presents the bells c1 -e♭1~f1~g1~a1 [do3 -mi♭3~fa3~sol3~la3] of St. Ulrich church in Geislingen near Balingen. It is an unusual mixed peal of three steel and two bronze bells.
➥ The oldest bell in St Ulrich's [5] dates back to 1475, was cast by Hans Eger in Reutlingen and is a very typical and extraordinarily heavy-shaped example. It is very similar to bell 5 from Riedlingen, which was cast a year earlier.
Further bells were lost in the First World War. They were replaced in 1924 by the "Bochumer Verein" steel plant with three large steel bells [1+2+3]. The historic bell was not taken into account when planning the steel bells.
This peal also survived the Second World War, as the steel bells were not conscripted due to their material and the bronze bell due to its age. Thanks to a generous donation in 1983, the bell[4] was cast by the Bachert bell foundry in Heilbronn as a link between the historic bell and the steel bells in order to better integrate the historic bell into the peal.
The full peal is clearly dominated by the steel bells, against which the two bronze bells have little chance despite their heavy shapes. At the same time, the clearly raised bell [3] is more noticeable in harmony with the bronze bells, as the interval to bell [4] is clearly narrower. All in all, an ensemble with an unrivalled radiance, which, however, is only very rarely heard in full harmony. To this day, the bronze and steel bells are still largely separated in the ringing order.