Overview: -0:00 Editorial -3:22 Photos of the old church with a simulation of pre-war bells -4:20 The demolished church and the bells after the First World War -5:00 Recordings of the clinching from a vinyl record and the construction of the new church -6:22 Larger, new bells for the new bell tower, and recordings of the church -8:25 7th small bell -10:20 6th bell -13:08 5th bell -15:12 4th bell -17:19 3rd bell -19:37 2nd bell -22:42 1st largest bell bell -25:19 All bells -32:14 conclusion The parish church in Poljane nad Škofja Loka today carries one of the largest bells in Slovenia. This includes as many as 7 church bells, the largest of which weighs just over 3800kg. The Church of St. Martin has a rather eventful history. The oldest information about the Poljanska church dates back to 1074. The second such information dates back to 1291. An independent parish, with Saint Martin as its patron, was founded in 1417. The first church is said to have been Romanesque, which was later replaced by a Gothic building. Construction of the Baroque church began in 1710, according to plans by Gregor Maček. The church was enormous and extremely richly furnished. The fateful day for the Poljanska baroque church came on November 13, 1944, when the partisans, after absurdly destroying church property, placed explosives under the bell tower and demolished it. The final fall of the mighty Poljanska church took place in the spring of 1954, when the supreme authorities ruled that the church was of no urban significance and that it obscured the view of the Škofja Loka hills. Thus, the work of the demolitionists was completely completed at the end of May 1954. In August 1965, they began the construction of a new church, thus embarking on a long journey that ended in 1997, when the new bell tower was completed. It was consecrated on June 14, 1970. The history of the Poljanski zvonovi is also varied. The oldest currently known information dates back to 1898, when a five-tone bell was made by Peter Hilzer for the bell tower of the parish church. The largest bell with the tone H° weighed 2197kg, the second with the tone dis' 1138kg, the third with the tone fis' 672kg and the smallest, h', which weighed only 298kg. Unfortunately, just under 20 years later, the sad fate of the First World War awaited them. All of them were taken away for war purposes, except for the medium-sized bell. In 1924, the people of Poljanski zvonovi purchased two new bells from Strojne Tovarne. When the bell tower was blown up, the larger and middle bells remained intact with only minor damage, while the smaller one was destroyed. These two were then transferred to a wooden bell tower, where they rang until the construction of a new church. In 1969, a new small bell was purchased in Žalec and installed in the bell tower of the newly built church. These three bells are still preserved in the parish churches on Vipavki Križ and in Dobravlje: • Bells of the parish church of the Exaltation of the Holy... • Bells of the branch church of St. Peter... Here I must mention the then parish priest Miro Bonča, who could be said to be a veteran of Slovenian electric bell ringing. With his exceptional inventive streak, he developed various systems for electric bell ringing in time. He equipped numerous Slovenian bell towers with his simple system. In many of them, his systems are still in operation today. As a bell ringer, he connected with Grassmayr, Perner, Bachert and the Žalska livarna. As befits his parish, he also ensured that nothing less than a fantastic song of bells still rings out from the bell tower today. He began building the bell tower in 1972, when he removed the three old bells from the bell tower and hung four new bronze bells in their place. They sing the Salve Regina. Already in 1973, he supplemented the melody with an additional bell. These were cast at Grassmayr. Despite the large number, the current bells were relatively small, so a little later, in 1994, he purchased a new large bell from Perner, weighing around 2500kg, with a tone of B°. In 1995, they began building a new, more spacious bell tower so that the bells could be heard better. Mr. Bonča's long-standing wish was thus easily granted, as he was given space where he could hang the largest bell, weighing around 3800kg. Bells today: 1. Rudolf Perner - 1998 - 3806kg - As°+5/16 (starting) 2. Rudolf Perner (recast) - 2000 - B°+7/16 3. Grassmayr - 1972 - des'+7/16 4. Grassmayr - 1973 - es'+8/16 5. Grassmayr - 1972 - f'+7/16 6. Grassmayr - 1972 - as'+5/16 7. Grassmayr - 1972 - b'+9/16 Bells after the First World War: 1. Machine Factories and Foundries - 1924 - 125cm - 1043kg - dis'+3/16 2. Peter Hilzer - 1898 - 105cm - 672kg - ges'-8/16 3. Machine Factories and Foundries - 1924 -79cm - 286kg - h' The small one was replaced by the bell from Žalec after being blown up:* 3. Ferralit Žalec - 1969 - b' -11/16 Bells before the First World War: 1. Peter