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Op het hoogtepunt beschikte de Eusebiuskerk over minstens vier grote luidklokken van Geert van Wou in compagnonschap met Gobel Moer gegoten in 1477. Kort daarna in 1481 leverde Van Wou nu vanuit Kampen nogmaals een grote klok, wellicht een hergieting. In 1498 werd door Van Wou een heel kleine klok geleverd. In 1539 mocht Willem Tolhuys de grote Salvatorklok gieten ter nagedachtenis van de overleden hertog Karel van Gelre, die de klok gefinancierd heeft. Deze klok is een pronkstuk van klokgietkunst.
Van de luidklokken gingen er drie definitief verloren bij de Slag om Arnhem in 1944. Twee andere raakten zwaar beschadigd; weer twee andere bleven onbeschadigd. Bij de herbouw van de toren na de oorlog kon één oude luidklok weer in gebruik genomen worden ( bes0 ). Ook konden vier basklokken uit het vroegere Hemony-carillon nu als luidklok gaan functioneren ( es1 g1 as1 bes1 ). Petit &Fritsen mocht nog twee luidklokken gieten ( g0 c1 ) welke tevens deel gingen uitmaken van de nieuwe beiaard. Zo ontstond een zevenstemmig gelui met een bijzondere dispositie: g0-bes0-c1-es1-g1-as1 en bes1. Eveneens uit de oude beiaard afkomstig is het klokje gegoten in 1651 met de toon dis3 in de vieringtoren op het dak van de kerk.
In de kerk bevinden zich de andere overgebleven klokken van Hemony uit de jaren 1650, 1651, 1661, 1662 en 1664. Pronkstuk is een grote klok As0 van Willem Tolhuis uit 1539. Verder is er nog een klokje van Jean Baptiste le Vache uit 1734."
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Loud Clocks
At its peak, the Eusebius Church had at least four large swinging bells by Geert van Wou in partnership with Gobel Moer cast in 1477. Shortly afterwards in 1481 Van Wou now delivered another large bell from Kampen, perhaps a recast. In 1498 Van Wou delivered a very small bell. In 1539 Willem Tolhuys was allowed to cast the large Salvator bell in memory of the deceased Duke Karel van Gelre, who financed the bell. This bell is a showpiece of bell-forming.
Three of the swinging bells were definitively lost at the Battle of Arnhem in 1944. Two others were severely damaged; two others remained undamaged. When the tower was rebuilt after the war, one old bell could be used again ( b-flat0 ). Also four bass bells from the former Hemony-carillon could now function as a swinging bell ( es1 g1 as1 b-flat1 ). Petit &Fritsen was allowed to cast two more swinging bells ( g0 c1 ) which also became part of the new carillon. This resulted in a seven-part melody with a special disposition: g0-bes0-c1-es1-g1-as1 and b-flat1. Also from the old carillon is the bell cast in 1651 with the tone dis3 in the tower on the roof of the church.
In the church are the other remaining bells of Hemony from the years 1650, 1651, 1661, 1662 and 1664. The showpiece is a large bell As0 by Willem Tolhuis from 1539. There is also a small bell by Jean Baptiste le Vache from 1734.
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"The historic centre of Arnhem is full of discoveries waiting to be made. Visit the centuries-old St. Eusebius’s Church (the Eusebiuskerk) and learn more about the impressive history and architecture of this ancient church.
One architectural highlight in Arnhem is the Grote Kerk or Eusebius Church with its 93 metre tower. Construction work started in 1450; the church took over a century to complete. It was designed in the Nether Rhine Gothic style of the cathedral in the German village of Xanten.
Unique carillon
The Eusebius Church is a three-aisle cruciform basilica with an extraordinary carillon, which boasts one of the heaviest carillon bells in Holland. There is only one other bell that is heavier. The Reformation occurred in Arnhem in 1578. The church was taken over by the reformed church at that time.
Restoration
The church was heavily damaged during the battle of Arnhem in WWII. After the war it was fully restored and more restoration work has been done since that time. Today the church is a much-loved exhibition space, with services held only once per month. Address: Kerkplein 1, Arnhem."
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"St. Eusebius church also known as the Eusebiuskerk or the Grote Kerk, at 93 metres is the largest church, and the largest building in Arnhem, The Netherlands.
Notably the building contains an elevator that was added to the church in 1994, which allows visitors to travel to the top of the spire and view the city of Arnhem from its highest point. More intriguing perhaps, visitors can also enter the crypt at the rear of the church which contains a number of full skeletons lying in state, in the darkness of the church's crypt.
Initial construction
On the site of the present building initially stood a church dedicated to St. Martinus but after some relics of St. Eusebius arrived in the town during the early part of the 15th century, it was decided to build a new church dedicated to the saint at the old site. This new structure gradually replaced the old building over the next century, commencing when Arnold, Duke of Egmond laid the first stone in 1452.
World War II damage
The church was extensively damaged during the Second World War following Operation Market Garden in 1944. When the battle over the bridge that crosses the Rhine occurred, between paratroopers under the command of British Lieutenant-Colonel John Dutton Frost and the Germans, the church was completely burnt out. Later the tower, weakened by the fire, collapsed entirely.
Rebuilding
Following the war the church was restored between 1946 and 1961 under the guidance of Berend Tobia Boeyinga, a Dutch architect noted for his Calvinist church buildings and as a practising member of the Amsterdam School of architecture.
The church used for occasional religious services but is a tourist attraction, specifically commemorating the bravery of the paratroopers of the Allied forces who attempted to isolate the Germans by capturing the bridge across the river Nederrijn.
In 1994 the municipality of Arnhem commissioned an elevator to be placed in the church tower. Visitors can pay a small fee and ride up the elevator past all of the array of bell and into the loft of the church, from where tourist binoculars or the naked eye can be used to survey a 360 degree view of the surrounding city.
Visitors can also take the final few steps inside the spire to climb to the very point of the tower. The church organ is still prominent and in good working order, and the church itself contains a number of items of interest and commemorative paraphernalia.
Human remains
Some of the bones in the crypt
Visitors to the church are also able to enter the crypt below the building. This part of the building has only very dim light in a central part. By carefully exploring a number of darkened cavernous areas, most of which are either barred as if being a part of old gaol cells, or in some cases as clearly exhumed shallow graves, the visitor can find ancient human bones which have been left in the state of their burial or death. "