Nieuwe Toren

The Nieuwe Toren is placed on the Oudestraat inside the metropolis of Kampen. This Carillon tower was built inside the period among 1649-1664 partially in keeping with a design via Philips Vingboons. The lower brick-built element changed into erected through the Edam mill maker Dirck Janzn. The design for the lantern turned into made with the aid of Philips Vingboons, which may also have originally been intended for the Town corridor now the Royal Palace of Amsterdam. The production work went through many setbacks, the work even got here to a standstill throughout the length 1655-1660. The Tower homes a carillon which at the beginning turned into cast and composed by way of François Hemony.

Hemony solid 30 bells in 1659/sixty two, which, except one little bell that turned into changed in 1790 by way of L Haverkamp, are nevertheless present. During the primary years, these Hemony bells have been positioned within the Tower of the Kamper Town Hall, because the Nieuwe Toren hadn’t been finished but. As the city corridor tower was not able to provide room for the biggest bells, those had been best delivered whilst the device subsequently changed into mounted inside the Nieuwe Toren, in 1663. The added bass bells covered three via Hemony, four bells by way of Geert van Wou and one through Kiliaen Wegewaert.