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2 unusual facts about Petit & Fritsen


Soldiers' Tower

In 1976, the carillon was rededicated at its present size with the addition of 28 bells from Petit & Fritsen.

St. Norbert Abbey

The set of six bells at the St. Norbert Abbey were "cast in Holland at the Bell-Foundry of Petit and Fritsen" and hung in the Abbey Church tower on July 2, 1958.


Essen Minster

The flèche holds three more bells, two of which were cast in 1955 by the bell founders Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock of Gescher, who thereby brought their foundry back to the bell making tradition, since their foundry had cast the bells of St Johann Baptist in 1787.


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