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Titel: Tösse AI:1 (1757-1761) - translation
Skrivet av: Ingela Martenius skrivet 2012-09-03, 21:18
My dictionary - from 1939 - translates klockare as vestry-keeper or sacristan.
 
What the klockare actually did varied greatly from time to time and from place to place. In one place, at one time the klockare may have rung the bells, been parish clerk, organist, led the church choir and run the parish school (actually, both running it and teaching). While at another place, another time the klockare was no more than a janitor (though still ringing the bells).
It depended somewhat on what the church centrally decided were the klockare's responsibilites, but more on the klockare's training and abilites - and mostly on what the vicar thought was appropriate.
 
Bell-ringing in Sweden was (is) generally a very simple affair - no change ringing, and only a few carillons (generally speaking only in cities and there mostly where there was a German congregation).
 
Ingela