Heinrich Wilhelm Eckmann

Heinrich Wilhelm Eckmann ( January 1712 - July 31, 1777 in Quakenbrück ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Eckmann was born in 1712. He may have completed an apprenticeship with Christian Klausing . In 1742 he built the organ in Engter. After that he apparently worked temporarily for the baroque architect Johann Conrad Schlaun (Emsland and Münster). From 1746 to 1748 he built the organ in the former Jesuit church in Meppen . From 1750 he built the organ of the Clement Church in Münster and the large organ of the Osnabrück Cathedral . The organ of the Stephanikirche in Bremen from 1768 is considered to be his greatest and most important work .

He also worked in East Friesland - and here two of his works are still preserved, namely in 1773 in Amdorf and 1775 in Bagband . He was buried on August 2, 1777 in the St. Sylvester churchyard in Quakenbrück .

Proven works

The size of the instruments is indicated in the fifth column by the number of manuals and the number of sounding registers in the sixth column. A capital “P” stands for an independent pedal, a lowercase “p” for an attached pedal. Italics indicate that the organ in question is no longer or only the prospectus has been preserved.

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1742	Narrower	St. Johannis				not received
1746-1748	Meppen	High school church in Meppen			13	Prospectus received
1748-1750	Dams	St. Viktor				Addition of an independent pedal; not received
1750	Muenster	Clement Church
1755	Osnabrück	St. Peter's Cathedral		III / P	40	Replaced in 1897, parts reused for the Rohlfing organ; not received
1763-1768	Bremen	St. Stephani		III / P	45	Replaced by a new building in 1907, parts of the prospectus have been preserved
1767-1769	Bremen	St. Pauli				Modification of the Schnitger organ, expansion of the pedal; not received
before 1773	Empty	St. Michael Church				Sold in 1867 to Flachsmeer, St. Bernhard , where the brochure case has been preserved
1773	Amdorf	Amdorfer Church		I / p	9	1821 Remodeling by Wilhelm Eilert Schmid
1774	Oude Pekela	Sint-Willibrorduskerk		I / p	14th	Completion of the organ by Christopher Köchmann; Replaced in 1887
1774-1775	Bagband	Bagbander Church		I / p	14th	largely original

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} www.orgelbau-ostfriesland.de (PDF; 956 kB) - The restoration of the Eckmann organ built in 1773 in Amdorf

literature

• Walter Kaufmann : The organs of East Frisia - organ topography . Publishing house Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1968.

See also

• List of organ builders
• List of historical organs in East Frisia