Bell-ringing disturbed tourists, so local church remains silent in a Hungarian village

The bell-ringing disturbed tourists in Balatonberény, a small village of 1,100 residents in the south-western part of Lake Balaton. They said that they would not like to wake up at 5 or 6 am to the bells of the local church. It seems that the Catholic church accepted the complaint for the summer period. However, tourists now complain because of the morning crow of the roosters.

According to ATV, the local church bells rang every day at 5 am which disturbed many tourists who came on a holiday and did not want to be woken up that early. Therefore, they wrote a petition to the local mayor in which they asked him to cease the morning bell ringing as soon as possible. However,

locals were shocked after they read the letter.

“I must say that I was angry because bell ringing is an ancient tradition in the villages. They moved the 5 am bell ringing to 6 am, which was already strange for the people. But to abolish it because of the tourists – that, I cannot believe. On that ground, they should not ring the bell of the church at 8 pm either,” said one of the residents.

The leadership of the village and the church agreed that the bells would not ring in the morning.

The mayor thought that everything would be alright, but then others came asking him to end the morning crow of the roosters since that is disturbing, too.

László Horváth highlighted that nothing can be done about that issue.

Now it seems that, until the end of the summer, church bells will remain silent in the morning.

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Source: ATV