Bell in wooden Bell Tower, Vápno (East Bohemia), Czech Republic
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Bell casted in 1520 hanged in wooden bell tower in front of St. George Church in Vápno (East Bohemia)
Waymark Code: WMBKRT
Location: Pardubický kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 05/30/2011
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The bell was casted in 1520 by bell-founder Jakub Ptácek. It has widest diameter 81 cm and it is tuned in C. During World War I it was requisitioned to be melted for guns, but it was saved at last and hanged back to old bell tower. In 1935 the old wooden bell tower had to be replaced by the new one - opened, strut-framed bell tower.
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