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Bells We don’t know about the first bells in
Machov. In the old belfry, there certainly were some bells, but the first
mentioned bell is St. Wenceslas bought in 1885. It was hung to the new
tower and there was a smaller bell (probably St. Virgin Marry) with it.
These bells were embargoed in the World War I. After the war in 1925 there were
bought four new bells. The biggest of them was St. Wenceslas (502 kg),
the middle bell was St. Virgin Marry (307 kg) and the smallest bell
St. Heart Dominical (212 kg). In the small tower there was a very small bell
- St. Annie (68 kg). These bells had ringing in the nice chord – A major.
They were all embargoed in the World War II unfortunately.
After the Second World War somebody brought the small bell St. Wenceslas
(50 kg, it rings in d). It hangs in the tower up to today. It was used as a
death bell before 1990. In 1991 there was bought a new bell St. Wenceslas
(152 kg). It rings in the tone f2. In 2000 this bell has got an electric motor.
In the small tower there is an unknown bell. We don’t know practically anything
about it, but it’s very small (about 15kg). It’s probably native from the old
mill in Machov.
The oldest bell in Machov is a death bell St. Ignatius. It comes from
1762 and it hangs in the tower up to today, but it’s cracked. It wasn’t
embargoed, because it’s very historical.
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