Bell 9801

Bell #9801 is a memorial bell for Prague cast in 2022 in the Grassmayr Bell Foundry. With its weight of 9801 kg, it is intended to refer to the 9,801 bells stolen by Nazi Germany during the Second World War in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia for the purposes of the arms industry. The #9801 bell will be placed on Rohanský ostrov, the place where the bells were taken from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

Design
The design of the bell is based on a design by Prague bell ringers Kryštof Čižinský and Jakub Kamínek. On one side of the bell there are reliefs which are fragments from the stolen bells. On the other side there is an inscription in Czech. In Czech: Promlouvám hlasem tisíců zvonů, které umlčela válka. – which means I speak with the voice of a thousand bells silenced by war.

The bottom diameter of the bell is 258 cm. It is 187 cm high (without the crown), the head adds another c. 126 cm. The weight of the heart is about 300 kg.