St Olai Church Clock Tower - Norrköping, Sweden - Town Clocks on Waymarking.com

Outside St Olai Church, there was originally a cemetery but this ceased to be used as such in the early 1800s. Both the wall that surrounded the cemetery and a chapel in the cemetery's southern part is missing. After the church tower was demolished in 1655, a bell tower was in the cemetery. This seems to have escaped being damaged during the Russian raids in 1719. The bell tower fell, however, subsequently and in the 1730s it was decided to erect a campanile on the cemetery's western part of Queen Street. On each side of the tower was erected two sheds and front of the tower to the street built a portal in kolmårdsmarble . The portal was designed probably by architect Carl Harleman .

The fire of 18 June 1822 destroyed kampanilens towers and later was built the existing superstructure, designed by architect Carl-Gustaf Floral Carlsson . In this tower are three bells, two cast in 1822, and one cast in 1825.

A sign (in Swedish) on the tower wall reads:

S:t Olai Kyrkas Klocktorn -Stadstornet- byggt 1750 Eldhärjat 1822. Därefter ny överbyggnad. Marmorportalen från 1746 ersatt av kopia 1948. I tornet har fram till 1905 hållits vakt mot vådeld.

The Tower has four clock faces facing every direction. Each clock face is solid black with a gold trim circle. There are twelve Roman numerals and two gold hands.

Status: Working Display: Mounted Year built: 01/01/1750 Web link to additional info: Not listed

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