Balázs Árpád - Mihály János (szerk.): Harangok a székelytámadt várban. Harangkiállítás Lázár Imre gyűjteményéből (Székelyudvarhely, 2017)
The oldest bell of the displayed collection comes from Rusciori (Reußdörfchen, Sibiu county) and it was founded in 1742 in Sibiu.The largest bell weighs 745 kg and it was casted in 1970 in Cluj Napoca for Cristuru Secuiesc.There are two bells from the 19th century, however most of the bells were founded in the first part of the 20th century but the collection also includes some bells that have been founded later. Most of the bells have an inscription as well. We can often see the names of the bell-founder, the customer and the beneficiary community (see more details in the Data Base). In the most cases besides the inscriptions we can also see different decorations, embossments, medals. Some of the mostly decorated bells are the bell in the above-mentioned Cădişeni and the bell in Sâncrai (Harghita county). The latter was made in 1851 in the workshop of the bell-founder Fridrich Lotz in Sighişoara. It is an interesting fact that the collection also includes a bell of the Reformed Church in Bucureşti that was refounded in 1950. The exposition of bells has been realized in order to enlarge the tourism offer and attraction of the town Odorheiu Secuiesc. At the same time we hope that the collection can attract historical churches and this way it can grow and slowly it can become the largest bell collection in Transylvania and in the whole Carpathian Basin. Mihály János
