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Church bells
2:00
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Recordist's notes
church bells at 3pm in Borschemich, a nice village in the west of germany, over 1100 years old. as many others in this area, this village will be destructed soon, eaten by the growing Garzweiler brown coal mining in the east. it's almost abandoned, only a few people left.
About the place
Jüchen is a town of about 22,562 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. OttoAnna lists 10 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “Borschemich, Erkelenz - church bells” by udo noll – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0