Barnim Gruneberg

Barnim Gruneberg

Barnim Grüneberg (born December 27, 1828 in Stettin , † August 22, 1907 in Stettin; full name Karl Barnim Theodor Grüneberg ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Barnim Grüneberg came from a family of organ builders who worked in Brandenburg an der Havel , Magdeburg and Stettin . His father August Wilhelm Grüneberg was an organ builder there. The brother Hermann Grüneberg was an important chemist and entrepreneur.

After the early death of the father in 1837, the business was initially closed. Barnim Grüneberg studied from 1843 to 1847 with Carl August Buchholz in Berlin, a distant relative. Then in 1848 he went to Friedrich Haas in Lucerne, to Kyburz in Solothurn, to Salzburg, then to the famous Aristide Cavaillé-Coll in Paris, Vienna and London. From 1849 to 1853 he was a journeyman with Eberhard Friedrich Walcker in Ludwigsburg.

In 1854 Barnim Grüneberg returned to Stettin, where he reopened his father's organ building workshop at Grosse Domstrasse 24 (today ul. Farna). He made it one of the most important and productive German organ workshops of its time.

Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz awarded him the title of court organ builder in 1893 . Barnim Grüneberg was a founding member of the Association of German Organ Builders and a member of the Johannisloge "Friedrich Wilhelm zur Liebe und Treue" in Demmin .

In 1905 his son Felix (Johannes) Grüneberg and his brother Georg took over the father's workshop and moved it to Finkenwalde in 1906. Felix lived there from 1910 to 1945 in the Grüneberg Villa . In 1933 Opus 1000 was celebrated. Production ended in 1945.

Organ building

Barnim Grüneberg was the most important organ builder in Pomerania in the 19th century. His organ building institute was one of the most productive of its time. The instruments were delivered to Mecklenburg and Brandenburg, and under his sons to Russia and Africa.

The instruments initially had slide chests and mechanical action , later cone chests and finally a pneumatic action. For the first time he built into the organ in Neustrelitz “a roll sill with which that stepless crescendo and diminuendo can be produced, which is a feature of the symphonic orchestral organ of the German late romantic era” .

Barnim Grüneberg built the largest organ of its time in Libau , with 131 stops on four manuals and pedal . To this day it is the largest manually operated organ in the world. His 450th work (opus) was the cathedral organ in Ratzeburg in 1902 .

Work (selection)

→ Main article : List of the Grüneberg organs # Barnim Grüneberg

Barnim Grüneberg created over 450 new organs and conversions, mainly in Pomerania , but also in Mecklenburg , Brandenburg and other places. Larger and some smaller organs up to 1906 are listed. A detailed list contains further instruments. Later buildings by the organ building institute B. Grüneberg are given by Felix Grüneberg . Organs that are no longer available are in italics .

New organs

year	opus	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1854	1	Bonin	Village church		I / p	4th	received empty housing
1854	2	Kummerow	Village church		I / P	5	1855 Brochure completed, 1992 restoration and installation of the brochure by Wolter
1854	3	Vellin , today Wielin	Village church		I / p	4th	receive
1854		Gormin	St. Mary's Church				shown at the world exhibition in Paris in 1855, one of the oldest surviving cone-shop organs in Pomerania, restored in 2001
1855	20th	Flemendorf	Marienkirche		I / P	7 + 1	Pedal as transmission register, restored in 2003 by Mecklenburg Orgelbau
1856		Kröslin	church		I / P	9	2002 restoration by Wolter
1859		Neustrelitz	Castle Church		II / P	16	Significantly damaged, not playable → organ
1862	51	Tempelburg , now Czaplinek	Church, now Holy Cross Church		I / P	8th	receive
1862	60	Finkenwalde near Stettin, today Zdroje	Church, today the Holy Spirit Church		II / P	10	1895 repairs, with or later pneumatic reconstruction, register Gedackt 8 'probably also used later, 2015 restoration by Karl Schuke (in opus index No. 60 for Greifenberg / Gryfino, cf. 1865)
1862/63		Great Jestin , today Gościno	Church, today the Church of St. Andrzej Bobola		II / P	12	for the new church (consecrated in 1865), probably preserved
1863		Penkun	City Church		II / P	13	1959 restored by Barnin Grüneberg jun.
1863	67	Bärwalde , now Barwice	Church, today St. Stefan		II / P	13	receive
1864	70	Szczecin , now Szczecin	Castle Church		II / P	23	after 1909/10 replaced by an almost new building by Grüneberg
1864	74	Big Zicker on Rügen	Village church		I / P	5	1999 general overhaul by Wolter
1865		Greifenberg , today Gryfino	Church, today Church of the Birth of Mary		II / P	30th	stated in opus index No. 60 (see above); Restored in 2009 by Kaczmarek
1866		Lauenburg , today Lębork	St Salvator, now Queen Mary of Poland		II / P	20th	Damaged in 1945, repaired in 1958, playable
1868	112	Massow , today Maszewo	Church, today the Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa		II / P	21st	not playable appropriately for a concert
1869	114	Selmsdorf	St. Mary		II / P	13	2009 restoration by W. Sauer
1870		Kartlow	St. Johannis		I / P	10	receive
1874	157	Feldberg	City Church		II / P	18th
1875	161	Grischow	church		II / P	10	Restored in 2011 by Mecklenburg Organ Builders
1877	178	Bagemühl	church		I / P	6th	Partially restored in 2011 in the Baltic Organ Center Stralsund, pedal register and flute 4 'not playable
1877	182	Fürstenwerder	church		II / P	11	1997 restored by Ulrich Fahlberg
1879		Langenhanshagen	Langenhanshagen Church		I / P	7 + 1	Pedal is the transmission register, now in the Mecklenburg Organ Museum in Malchow
1879		Ketzin , Havel	Church of St. Petri		II / P	14th	in a baroque case from 1753, possibly by Gottlieb Scholtze
1879	204	Mellenthin	church		I / p	4th
1880	208	Validity	church		II / P	11
1880		Krieschow , Lower Lusatia	church		I / P	9
1881		Bad Polzin , today Połczyn-Zdrój	Marienkirche , today the Church of the Immaculate Conception of Mary		II / P	28?	Later conversions, today pneumatic with an electric gaming table, II / P, 28
1881		Forgive	Monastery church				received, also playable?
1882	227	Lauenburg , today Lębork	St.Jakobi		II / P	19th	receive
1884	255	Szczecin	Concert and club house				Replaced in 1929 by the Grüneberg organ, destroyed in 1944
1884	257	Beggerow	Ev. church		I / P	9
1882	230	Haarlem , South Africa	Evangelical Lutheran Church		I / P	6th	receive?
1885	265	Humansdorp , South Africa	Low German Reformed Congregation		I / P	6th	Built in 1886, moved to Clarkson , South Africa in 1939 to the Moravian Church, restored in 1964, preserved?
1886		Bublitz , today Bobolice	Church, today the Assumption		II / P	21st	receive
1886		Klein Schwarzsee , today Czarne Małe	Church, today the Assumption		I / P	9	receive
1888		Cammin , today Kamień Pomorski	Dom		III / P	44	in the baroque prospectus from 1672, replaced in 2004 by a reconstruction of the baroque organ → organ # new building by Barnim Grüneberg in 1888
1891		Great Nemerow	church		I / P	10	receive
1891		Old Käbelich	church		I / P	9	receive
1892		Putbus , Ruegen	Putbus Castle Church		II / P	14th	1995 general overhaul by Wolter
1893		Neustrelitz	City Church		III / P	45	Largest new organ by Barnim Grüneberg, 2001 partial renovation by Mecklenburg Orgelbau and Sauer , 2005 completion by Christian Scheffler and Mecklenburg Orgelbau .
1895	381	Ahlbeck	church		II / P	15th
1896	386	Ganschendorf	church		I / P	9	receive
1896	387	Szczecin  ?, Today Szczecin	Church, today the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help		I / P	10	Preserved, Opus 387 on the company sign, but in the Opus directory this was set up in Grenz, Uckermark (i.e. either moved from there to Stettin or an error in the Opus directory)
1897		Koserow , Usedom	church		I / P	9	1994 General overhaul by Wolter
1899		Bartow	church		II / P	11	receive
1901		Berlin	French Church		II / P	13	Destroyed in 1945
1902		Kasnewitz , Ruegen	St. Jacobi		II / P	12	1999 restoration by Wolter
1904		Usedom	St. Mary		II / P	14th
1905		Atterwasch , Lower Lusatia	church		I / P	7th	receive
1905	505	Miter	church		II / P	8th	receive
1906		Anklam	Catholic parish church of St. Salvator		II / P	12	probably built by Felix Grüneberg, restored in 2006 by Wolter
1906		Stralsund	St. Mary		I / P	5	probably built by Felix Grüneberg → Small organ
1906		Stargard Castle	City Church		II / P	13	probably already received by Felix Grüneberg

More work

year	opus	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1865	80	Altentreptow	St. Peter Church		II / P	31	Extension of the organ by Johann Simon Buchholz from 1812, 2002–2003 restoration by Scheffler → Organ
1865		Crooked	St. Michael		I / P	9	Installation of a pedal of a Buchholz organ from around 1850, restoration by Wolter in 1993
1866		Demmin	St. Bartholomew		IV / P	52	Reconstruction and extension of a Buchholz organ from 1819 while retaining the pipe → organ
1868-1870	112	Szczecin , today Szczecin	St. Jakobi				Reconstruction / renewal of the existing organ, then expanded twice to IV / P, 69, destroyed in 1944
1881		Bobbin , Ruegen	St. Pauli Church		I / P	6th	Installation of two pedal registers in Buchholz organ from 1842 (previously I / 4), restoration and brochure installation by Wolter in 2007
1885		Libau , today Liepāja	Trinity Cathedral		IV / P	131	Expansion to what was then the largest organ in the world, today the largest mechanically operated organ → organ
1901		User	church		I / P	9	Construction of an organ from 1870 by an unknown organ builder from West Prussia
1902	450	Ratzeburg	Dom		III / P	41	Reconstruction of an organ by Friedrich Albert Mehmel from 1881; not preserved → organ history

literature

• Uwe Pape : Grüneberg, Barnim . In: Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner (Eds.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg and the surrounding area including Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017. pp. 192f.
• Matthias Schneider : Grüneberg, Barnim (1828–1907) . In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern . Volume 1. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania , Series V, Volume 48.1.) Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-20936-0 , pp. 105-106. Internet access

Web links

Commons : Orgeln by Barnim Grüneberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

history

• History of the organ building company B. Grüneberg Grüneberg.pl with photos (Polish)
• History of the organ builder family Grüneberg Sedina.pl, with photos (Polish)
• Short biography of the Brandenburg organ landscape

Organ lists

• Grüneberg Orgeldatabase, around 100 organs, e.g. T. with dispositions
• Grüneberg organs in Western Pomerania Baltic Organ Center, with dispositions
• Lista organów Grüneberg.pl, about 40 organs with dispositions (Polish)

literature

• Literature about Barnim Grüneberg in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Uwe Pape: Grüneberg, Barnim. In: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . Volume 4, p. 192.
2. ^ History of the Barnim Grüneberg Sedina organ building establishment (Polish)
3. ↑ Complete overview of the members of the Masonic Lodge in Demmin , accessed on May 12, 2019
4. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran town church community Neustrelitz (ed.): The Grüneberg organ in the town church Neustrelitz. Neustrelitz 2005.
5. ↑ Organ in Bonin gruneberg.pl, with photo and disposition (Memento, Polish)
6. ↑ organs in Vorpommern Baltic Orgelcentrum, with disposition
7. ↑ Organ Organ Database (Dutch)
8. ↑ Organ in Wielin gruneberg.pl, with photo and disposition (Memento, Polish)
9. ↑ Organ in Flemendorf gruneberg.pl (Memento, Polish)
10. ↑ Information Orgeldatabase (Dutch)
11. ↑ organ Wirtualne Centrum Organowe
12. ↑ organ Wirtualne Centrum Organowe
13. ↑ On restoration work dzieje.pl, 2015 (Polish)
14. ^ Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . Volume 4. 2017. Grüneberg
15. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 20, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with disposition 
16. ↑ Penkun Church , with a short story and photo
17. ↑ Organ organ database
18. ↑ Organ Wirtualne Centrum Organowe (Polish)
19. ↑ Organ with disposition and photo (Dutch)
20. ↑ Gryfino MusicamSacram, with disposition (Polish)
21. ↑ organ Wirtualne Centrum Organowe
22. ↑ Organ in Lębork Musicam Sacram, with disposition (Polish)
23. ^ Organ in Lębork Wirtualne Centrum Organowe
24. ↑ Organ in Lębork Orgeldatabase (Dutch)
25. ↑ Organ in Maszewo Musicam Sacram, detailed description with disposition (Polish)
26. ^ Organ in Maszewo Wirtualne Centrum Organowe
27. ↑ W. Sauer ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
28. ↑ Information about the organ in Kartlow Orgeldatabase
29. ^ Organ in Feldberg. In: Malchow Organ Museum. Accessed December 31, 2019 .  , with disposition
30. ↑ Organ in Grischow. In: Mecklenburg organ building. Accessed August 31, 2019 .  
31. ↑ Organ visit by Matthias Schuke 2014, in Organ visit 2014 by St. Sophien Orgel e. V. Brüssow
32. ^ Organ in Fürstenwerder Orgeldatabase
33. ↑ Organ from Langenhanshagen. In: Malchow Organ Museum. Accessed December 31, 2019 . 
34. ↑ Information on the organ in Ketzin Orgbase
35. ^ Organ in Mellenthin Orgeldatabase
36. ↑ Information on the organ in VALZ (Dutch)
37. ^ Organ in Krieschow Orgeldatabase
38. ^ Organ in Połczyn-Zdrój Wirtualne Centrum Organowe
39. ↑ Information on the organ in Verchen Orgeldatabase
40. ^ Organ in Lębork Wirtualne Centrum Organowe
41. ↑ History of the organ in the Stettin Concert and Club House gruneberg.pl (Memento, Polish)
42. ↑ Organ information (Dutch)
43. ↑ Organ with disposition (Dutch)
44. ↑ Organ in Bobolice MusicamSacram (Polish)
45. ^ Organ in Bobolice Wirtualne Centrum Organowe
46. ^ Organ music in Bobolice. In: Youtube. Accessed December 1, 2019 . 
47. ^ Organ in Groß Nemerow. In: Malchow Organ Museum. Accessed December 31, 2019 . 
48. ^ Organ in Alt Käbelich. In: Malchow Organ Museum. Accessed December 31, 2019 . 
49. ↑ Urania, magazine vol. 50 No. 12, 1893, pp. 88f. Disposition
50. ^ Organ in Neustrelitz organ database
51. ↑ Organ in Ahlbeck organ index (restricted access)
52. ↑ Organ in Ganschendorf organ database
53. ^ Organ in Szczecin Wirtualne Centrum Organowe
54. ^ Organ in Koserow Orgeldatabase
55. ↑ organ (Dutch)
56. ^ Burg Stargard Orgelmuseum Malchow, with history and disposition
57. ↑ Organ with disposition (Dutch)
58. ↑ Altentreptow Scheffler organ workshop
59. ↑ Organ with disposition (Dutch)
60. ↑ Organ Orgdatabase (Dutch)
61. ↑ Szczecin, bazylika św. Jakuba. In: gruneberg.pl. Archived from the original on May 30, 2019 ; Retrieved July 6, 2019 (Polish). 
62. ↑ Information (Dutch)