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Home sounds so heavenly: Dean Mannhardt publishes book about church bells

2022-11-25T11:02:52.268Z


Home sounds so heavenly: Dean Mannhardt publishes book about church bells Created: 11/25/2022, 12:00 p.m By: Alexandra Korimorth Proud of a real Miesbach joint venture: (from left) Verena Wolf, Gerhard Braunmiller, Dean Michael Mannhardt and Hartmut Wolf. © thomas plettenberg Many of them have already been heard on the radio. A separate book with CD is now dedicated to the bells of the churche


Home sounds so heavenly: Dean Mannhardt publishes book about church bells

Created: 11/25/2022, 12:00 p.m

By: Alexandra Korimorth

Proud of a real Miesbach joint venture: (from left) Verena Wolf, Gerhard Braunmiller, Dean Michael Mannhardt and Hartmut Wolf.

© thomas plettenberg

Many of them have already been heard on the radio.

A separate book with CD is now dedicated to the bells of the churches in the district.

A publishing house was set up specifically for its publication.

Miesbach

- Literally with a far-reaching chime, or rather several, the newly founded Miesbach publishing house presented the book "Glockenklänge im Miesbacher Land", rich in pictures and sounds.

Author is Dean Michael Mannhardt, known via BR as the Oberland's bell expert par excellence.

With the work, 140 guests in the Waitzinger Keller also celebrated the founding of the Miesbacher publishing house, which publishes the book.

The guests were not only carried away by the sounds of the bells, which repeatedly penetrated the Waitzinger cellar as audio samples, but also by the impressive knowledge of the researcher Mannhardt.

He was even able to get visitors enthusiastic about the topic who had previously had little connection to the ringing of bells in the district or who are fans of the BR program "Twelve O'clock Ringing".

In his lecture on the history of bells in the region, he introduced the most famous of their kind.

He talked about their foundrymen and the clients.

About their composition and their names, inscriptions and sound motifs - and how they have to be struck so that the sound of bells really becomes music.

"Each bell is an individual"

Mannhardt talked about their origin, for example from a Hamburg bell cemetery after the Second World War, and also about rescue operations so that bells were not melted down for war material.

By leading the audience to the churches from Wilparting to Großhartpenning, from Schliersee to Tegernsee, to Miesbach and Hausham, to Elbach and Bad Wiessee, the dean made the audience aware of the individual meaning of the bell sounds for the first time.

"Each bell is an individual about which one could actually write a complete book," said Mannhardt, whose fascination with bells and their individual history goes back to his childhood in Traunstein.

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He has been collecting and cataloging the sounds of bells since his youth, and has regularly contributed to the editorial staff of Bayerischer Rundfunk's “Twelve Clock Rings” – without making a big deal out of it.

The head of the Miesbach cultural office, Isabella Krobisch, had nevertheless heard about the passion of the clergyman and then suggested the book project to Mannhardt and author Verena Wolf.

The latter was so enthusiastic about it that they founded a publishing house together with her husband Hartmut: the Miesbacher Verlagshaus.

Book comes with CD with bell sounds

The newly appointed publishing director reported humorously on the motivation, the challenges and the knowledge gained in the book industry.

Verena Wolf, meanwhile, shed light on her many research trips to the 60 churches throughout the district in order to view, describe and photograph the bells in action.

The photographers Dietmar Denger, Florian Bachmeier and Stefan Schweihofer went up to the bell towers.

For the book, Krobisch captured the churches and altars, saints and sinners, as well as sceneries around the churches.

The Mayor of Weyarn Leonhard Wöhr, a passionate amateur photographer, contributed his views and the graphic artist Silvia Kaufmann packaged the result in an appealing way.

The accompanying CD was recorded by none other than “Zwöluhrläuten” editor Christian Jungwirt.

Miesbach Mayor Gerhard Braunmiller was not the only one to congratulate, who thanked Miesbach for showing Miesbach's cultural wealth in words and pictures and making it audible on the CD.

In a video message, Auxiliary Bishop Wolfgang Bischof let it be known that the bells – regardless of the opponents – belong to the kingdom of heaven.

He wished that in the future complainants in bell disputes - regardless of whether church bells or cowbells were disturbing - would use this book as a cultural educational document.

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Further information

Michael Mannhardt and Verena Wolf: "Klangenklänge im Miesbacher Land", 216 pages, 29.87 euros, available in bookstores.

Source: merkur

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