Queen Ingrids Carillon

Queen Ingrids Carillon will be  inaugurated on the 9. of October 2010  in presence of  His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark

Queen Ingrid's Carillon is one of the two Danish royal carillons. The second royal carillon being King Frederik IX`s Carillon in Løgumkloster (49 Bells). This instrument was erected in 1973 and was named after Queen Ingrid´s husband King Frederik IX, who passed away in 1972.

The carillon was erected in 1995 with a total of 21 Bells cast by the French bell founder Paccard. In 2008 the instrument was enlarged to a total 37 Bells (2010 42 bells) and a baton keyboard due to North European standard. The instrument is prepared for 48 (49) Bells . The heaviest Bell is G1 (Ø = 1060 mm = 665 kg) and the total instrument is as well constructed as erected by the Danish company Thubalka. Due to a very skilful construction and excellent acoustic conditions the instrument is claimed to be one of the best in Scandinavia.

Queen Ingrid of Denmark  was born on the 28 March 1910  and passed away 7 November 2000). She was the queen of King Frederik IX of Denmark. She was born in Stockholm as the third child of King Gustaf VI Adolf of  Sweden and his first wife, Princess Margaret of Connaught. She also was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

Princes Ingrid married Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and Iceland, in Stockholm on 24 May 1935. They were related in several ways. In descent from Oscar I of Sweden, they were third cousins.  She became the Queen of Denmark upon her husband's accession to the throne on 20 April 1947. The couple had three children:

  1.     Margrethe II of Denmark (born 1940)
  2.     Princess Benedikte (born 1944)
  3.     Princess Anne-Marie, (born 1946), former Queen of Greece (1964–1973)

After her death in Fredensborg Palace  in 2000, Queen Ingrid was interred next to her husband outside Roskilde Cathedral near Copenhagen. Every one of Denmarks among 4100 church bells were ringing half an hour before and  half  an hour after the ceremony. The three bells from 1648 in Saint Gertrud Church were at that occation rung by hand by a a group of ten volounteries.

You may watch a television programme in the internet about Queen Ingrid's Carillon. The title is "Klokker i spil" .

 http://www.folkekirkeinfo.dk/index.php?id=281

 

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