The Augustin bell on the White Tower

If you want to see the second largest bell in Bohemia, you have to go up to the fourth floor of the White Tower located on Velké náměstí in Hradec Králové. Augustin weighs a respectable 9.801,05 kilograms, is 169 cm tall and 206 cm wide. The biggest bell in our country is only Zikmund of St. Vitus.
If we are interested in the history of the bell, we will find out that the bell was cast in 1509 at the expense of the village and the townspeople by the Hradec bell ringer Ondřej...