S:ta Gertrud, Tyska kyrkan

This guide to S:ta Gertrud, the German church in Gamla Stan, explains how its carillon has marked the hours over the rooftops for more than a century, and what became of the original spire the German merchant founders built, lost to a fire in 1878. You'll hear about the one object that rode the tower's collapse and came out scorched but whole, and about Julius Raschdorff, Berlin Cathedral's own architect, who was called in to design what replaced it. Listen for the change in tune at noon, when the carillon switches from its morning hymn.