Organ of the Larrelter Church

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Organ of the Larrelter Church
Organ of the Larrelter Church, Ostfriesland.jpg
General
place Larrelter Church
Organ builder Johannes Millensis
Construction year 1619
Last renovation / restoration 1988 by Jürgen Ahrend
epoch Renaissance
Organ landscape Ostfriesland
Technical specifications
Number of registers 11
Number of rows of pipes 15th
Number of manuals 1
Tone tract Mechanically
Register action Mechanically
Number of 32 'registers -
Number of 64 'registers -

The organ of Larrelter Church was built by Johannes Millensis from 1618 to 1619 and rebuilt by Gerd Sieben Janssen from 1848 to 1855 . Despite various modifications about half of the old is still Renaissance - Register maintained. The organ has eleven stops on a manual and attached pedal and reflects the early Dutch influence on organ building in East Frisia .

Building history

Organ behind the case from 1855

In 1596 a predecessor organ from an unknown organ builder in Larrelter Church is reported to have been "improved". The Dutch master organ builder Johannes Millensis (van Mill ) carried out a comprehensive extension between 1618 and 1619, of which a number of registers have been preserved. Millensis used older registers from the 16th century.

In 1709/10 Joachim Kayser rebuilt the organ in order to meet the new needs of accompanying the congregation singing. Until the middle of the 17th century, the organs only had a liturgical function in worship. For example, Kayser built in the sesquialtera and expanded the range of the keyboards of the Renaissance instrument from the original FGA-g 2 a 2 to the baroque CDEFGA-c 3 by adding the three missing pipes in the bass and four in the treble. A Dutch inscription on the gallery still bears witness to this renewal of the organ. An unknown organ builder (HR de Vries?) Carried out a repair in 1785. In 1804, a renovation was carried out by Hinrich Just Müller , who covered the wind tunnels and the three bellows with new leather and opened the pipes closed at the top and fitted them with ring lids.

Between 1848 and 1855, Gerd Sieben Janssen completely redesigned the outside of the organ with a new case, replaced a register ( Gedackt 4 ′), the wind chest and action, and expanded the manual range to Cf 3 . The basic substance of the work, however, remained untouched, including the original throats of the trumpet, which give the Renaissance register a colorful sound. The tin praestant in the prospectus had to be handed in for war purposes in 1917 and was replaced by a zinc register.

The newly founded company Ahrend & Brunzema restored the organ as its first work in 1954 and set standards for further restoration practice in the organ landscape of East Friesland . The vacant dulcian and the bass pipes of the drone, which were destroyed by worms, were reconstructed. In 1988, in a second step, the tin praestant and the wedge-shaped bellows were reconstructed by Jürgen Ahrend and a modified mean-tone temperature was set.

As in the organs in Osteel and Uttum , the renaissance sounds of the Larrelter organ show the Dutch influence in organ building in the late renaissance. These organs with their old lead pipes are considered ideal for representing the vowel-influenced polyphony of this time. At the same time, the instrument in Larrelt has shown an astonishing continuity in organ building over several centuries. The trumpet was the model for the reconstruction of the register in the organ in Tergast (2000).

Disposition since 1855

Organ on the gallery in front of the east choir
Manual C – f 3
Praestant 8th' A.
Drone 16 ′ M / AB
Reed flute 8th' M.
Octave 4 ′ M.
Dumped 4 ′ J
Nasat 3 ′ M.
Octave 2 ′ M.
Sesquialtera II K / AB
Mixture III-IV M / AB
Dulcian B / D 16 ′ FROM
Trumpet 8th' M / J
Pedal C – f 1
attached
M = Johannes Millensis (1618/19)
K = Joachim Kayser (1709–1710)
J = Gerd Sieben Janssen (1848–1855)
AB = Ahrend & Brunzema (1954)
A = Jürgen Ahrend (1988)
Remarks
  1. ↑ a 2 -f 3 J; A.
  2. ↑ C – h made of lead, formerly wood; c 1 -f 3 old.
  3. ^ First choir from K, second from AB.
  4. ^ First to third choir from M, fourth from AB.
  5. ↑ throats and cups e.g. T. by M.

Technical specifications

  • 11 registers
  • Pedal attached (C – f 1 )
  • Action :
    • Tone action: mechanical
    • Stop action: mechanical
  • Wind supply:
    • 67 mm water column wind pressure
  • Mood :
    • Tuning pitch: a 1 = 446 Hz (at 15 ° C)
    • modified mean tone

literature

  • Walter Kaufmann : The organs of East Frisia . East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 1968.
  • Ralph Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-929902-62-1 .
  • Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 .
  • Harald Vogel, Reinhard Ruge, Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: Organ landscape Ostfriesland . 2nd Edition. Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1997, ISBN 3-928327-19-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tergast restoration report (Dutch) (accessed on March 23, 2009).

Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '53.7 "  N , 7 ° 8' 59.6"  E