This bell is located at the Aegidienkirche in Hanover and it was donated in 1985 by the city of Hiroshima which is Hanover’s sister city. It’s a bonshō, a traditional Japanese temple bell, which has been placed in the tower of the Aegidienkirche. The gesture was one intended to show international solidarity between two cities that understood what it meant to be destroyed by war.
Each year, on 6 August, the bell is rung during a memorial service honouring the victims of Hiroshima and I can imagine that it must feel like a powerful event. The ringing of the bell takes place at 08:15, when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, killing around 150,000 people.