Tuba Dei
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Tuba Dei (God's Trumpet), 3rd largest bell in Poland and one of the largest medieval bells in Europe, hanging in the tower of Ss. Johns Cathedral in Toruń. It was cast in Toruń by local founder Martin Schmidt in 1500, and until casting Zygmunt (for only 20 years) it was the largest bell in Poland.
The bell weighs 7238 kg (including 200-kg clapper), has diameter of 2,27 m and is 2 m high.
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Another bell, now called Thornan, was taken from Toruń as war booty in 1703 by Swedish forces of Carl XII during the Great Northern War. It hangs in the northern tower of Uppsala Cathedral, having replaced bells destroyed in the Uppsala Fire of 1702.
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