I used to do it in the UK mainly for the beer but also for the challenge - it's akin to playing chess in that ringing a full peal is a mathematical challenge.

This form of bell ringing is actually quite musical as there is always a pattern - the Swiss version is just nonsense .

Hey

The church is 10 meters away from my place, the church bells are really disturbing me a lot. Several times I have headache due to it. I work till late & due to summers I keep my window open. The bells start @ around 10 AM & I can't sleep. I am looking for a new house .

I want to know the reason why these big bells are blown in full .

Silk

When we lived in Alpthal I loved hearing the church bells ringing across the valley. Six o'clock was get up time, eleven was time to start getting the lunch ready for the girls, three (or was it four) was the right time to go down the hill and across to the farmer to tell him that one of his silly sheep was outside the fence again - I had to time it right, because that was when they would all be eating smoked bacon and ham and cheese and drinking coffee and I would get invited to join them. And the evening bells would tell me that the girls would soon be home filthy after helping the farmers... Since the only sounds I could hear were the crickets chirruping (or whatever you call the noise they make) in the fields and the babbling of the Alp, the bells made a nice change.

I am suffering from the reverse of the original topic - surprise at no church bells. Normally I hear three different church's bells sounding the hour during the quiet night hours in Zürich Kreis 7. Not so close by and it is a pleasant nighttime sound. Recently, there seems nothing, did something change?

The rapture hit.

Many years ago, a relative moved from a village in Switzerland to Lovelock, Nevada. What did she miss the most? The church bells.

Did you close your windows? We have a church literally across the road here, and if the windows are shut we can't hear the bells unless there is absolute silence in our apartment. With three kids, this is an extremely rare event.

So we're left for the blood & fire of the End Times? Cool - lucky we all have assault rifles in our homes!

I can believe it. I woke up at 3.30am last night with insomnia, probably caused by a nasty work day yesterday. I lay awake for a while and I was disappointed when the time went to after 4am with no bells. It is a perfect sound for the night. Maybe the Nevada equivalent is the lonesome train whistle drifting across the prairie

We have an apartment in the UK next to a Church - the bells ring every quarter, and every hour. Also 1 evening a week and on Sunday morning, they have bell ringing practice, with peels lasting up to 30 mins.
We chose to buy there, and we love it!

Here in CH we also live next to a Church - and bells ring every lunchtime, every 10pm and on Friday night + of course for services, weddings and funeralsl We chose to live her - OUR choice, so wouldn't dream of complaining!

Some people from Geneva bought an old house nearby and complained to the Council that cow bells were keeping them awake- with a request that farmers should remove bells from cows. They we soon told where to go (back to).

A bit surprised you ask here for advice - every Church has its own way of doing things, some bells are louder than others, etc... and we all have our own sensitivities to noise- bells don't bother me at all, but the whining of an air conditioning system would drive me bananas. Why not post yourself by the building at different times of the day and night to see what goes on!

I hope someone can correct me, but I thought sounds over 85 dB were harmful to health.

The adverse impact of noise on health can be direct (hearing loss and deafness) or indirectly and can cause fatigue, reduce work capacity and interference with communication, concentration, relaxation and sleep and there are certain health problems and worsening.

For a good sleep, it would be desirable that the noise does not exceed 30 dB (A), a single sound stimulus 45 dB (A).


Each sound stimulus louder by 10 dB (A) the level of ambient noise is distracting and disrupts concentration.
The difference of 10 dB (A) is twice as loud.
40 dB (A) is twice louder then 30 dB (A), 50 dB (A) is four time louder then 30 dB (A ),...

Our local Church used to ring at 8am for school, 12 for lunch, 6 for supper, and 10.00 for bed. Then on Saturday at 7pm to announce Sunday- then of course for Church services, funerals and weddings.

Now it only rings on Satuday at 7pm, and Church Services, weddings and funerals, which are all very rare. I really miss the 10pm bell.

As said before, the Church bells near our apartment in the UK ring a lot more often and for a lot longer.

my sister recently moved close to piraeus. the bells of a church close by play "the children of piraeus" after indicating the time with the old boring bell sound

Please, can you specify the exact time when the bell sounds, weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays?

I'm from Croatia and I have a big problem with the noise of church bells.
I am interested in experiences from Switzerland because one member on forum (index.hr) said that bells ring every 15 minutes in Swiss.

Here it's every half hour.

Tom

Don't worry.After a while your tinnitus will drown out the sound of the bells.

Dakman the Tour de France regularly has one stage in CH - often in my area of CH. This year it will make a tour in the Jura near Porrentruy, on 8th of July (from memory- check date).

Each Swiss village is different when it comes to bells- so best check before you rent a flat or house, or buy. Mind you, same in rural villages in the UK.

Church bells aren't always bad, you know...

Last night, I was looking for St.Josef pub in Zurich. I was in the general area but could not remember the exact street, I only remembered that there is a big church across the street from it.

Well, at 7pm the church bells started ringing like crazy, really loud, and because of that they led me straight to the pub!

It varies by the area, as other people have already mentioned.

Here (Zurich area) there is a single chime for the quarter-hour, double for the half-hour, triple for the three-quarter hour, and quadruple (four) for the hour followed by the number of the hour. (So at four o'clock you'd have eight - four of one note to tell you it's an hour, four of another to say it's 4 o'clock - fifteen minutes later would be just one ring of the first note).
Of course, at 7 in the morning they ring continuously for five minutes (good for my schedule - if the kids aren't out the door while the bells are rining, they miss their best train), also at 11 am & again at 7pm ... then on Saturdays in the late afternoon there's a fifteen-minute ring ... and on Sunday morning there's a fifteen-minute ring for each service.

I find the bells enjoyable, and useful (for time-keeping). If there's ever a day I wish to sleep in (on holidays, for example) I just close the window - double glazing is very good at keeping out the sound!

The bells wake me up Every morning. Sunday being the worst. Why why why