Brno Midday 2025
Celebration of the historic event of Brno’s noon performed by a brass quintet, which will play a fanfare from the tower of the Old Town Hall at 11 am.
From May to August 1645, General Lennart Torstenson besieged Brno. One day he vowed that he would either conquer Brno before the noon bells rang in the Church of St. Peter and Paul in St. Peter’s Square, or he would abandon the siege. Then, when the city was attacked and Brno was almost conquered, the old bell-ringer decided to give strength to the defenders by ringing their bell. When he did so, Tortenson thought it was already noon and pulled away from Brno, even though it was only 11 o’clock. From that time on, the noon bell in this church was always rung at 11 o’clock.
The second version of the story claims that Torstenson made this vow at a war council on the eve of the last attack on Brno and was overheard by a spying Brno man. The next day, when it was 11 o’clock and it seemed that Brno would fall, the defenders decided to have the bell at Peter’s Noon rung an hour earlier.
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