Albert Hollenbach

Birthplace, mill in Blankenberg

Memorial stone at the birthplace in Blankenberg

Hollenbach's house in Neuruppin

Albert Hollenbach (born February 11, 1850 in Blankenberg , Ruppin district , † January 24, 1904 in Neuruppin ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Albert Hollenbach, son of a family of millers, was the eighth of ten siblings. At the age of 14 he began his apprenticeship with Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller in Wittstock in 1864 , after which he was employed by Eberhard Friedrich Walcker and Friedrich Ladegast . On one of his educational trips, in Weißenfels an der Saale, he met his future wife, whom he married at the age of 27. In the same year, 1877, they moved to Neuruppin and took an apartment on Parkstrasse (today Puschkinstrasse). There he worked under difficult personal and economic circumstances.

The first "Hollenbach organ" was completed in 1880; he sold them to the Protestant school teacher seminar (today Pestalozzi School) in Neuruppin. Soon after, he delivered two more organs to this house. Hollenbach sold his organs at a time when Neuruppin was booming and building enthusiasm. The newly built Catholic church was also equipped with one of his instruments.

When the prices for tin rose by a total of 50 percent in 1898 , Hollenbach did not want to use inferior tin for his organ pipes, so that the high prices drove him into bankruptcy in 1903. On January 22nd, 1904 the foreclosure auction of the house and the workshop was established, two days later he took his own life, in poor health. The family was left impoverished.

List of works (selection)

Hollenbach created around 104 new buildings in 25 years.

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1880	Dippmannsdorf	Half-timbered church		I.	7th
1880	Neuruppin	Teachers seminar				Several organs.
1880	Butcher	Village church
1881	Buckwitz	Village church
1881	Østfold	Eidsberg Church ("Østfold Dome")		I.	8th
1881	Hedmark	Strøm Church		II	15th
1881	Hedmark	Sørskogbygda Church		II	15th
1881	Buskerud	Church tuft		I.	4th
1882	Cranes	Village church		I.	7th
1882	Walchow	Village church		I.	9
1882	Rägelin	Village church		I.	4th	The smallest organ built by Hollenbach.
1882	Sogn and Fjordane	Flora Church		I.	8th
1882	North country	Sandnessjøen Church		I.	3
1883	basement, cellar	Village church		I.	6th	from parts of an instrument by Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller .
1883	Neuruppin	Catholic Sacred Heart Church				In 1977 the organ was replaced by a new one from Schuke , Potsdam , as it was not possible to finance the renovation of the old one.
1883	Kurtschlag	Village church		I.	7th	Today the organ is in the village church of Groß Dölln . The current organ comes from Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller from 1883. It comes from the Zechow church and was moved to Kurtschlag in 1981.
1883	Burghagen	Village church		II / P	6th
1884	Dolln	Village church		I.	11
1884	Röddelin	Village church		I.	4th
1884	Dreetz	Village church		I.	11
1885	Schönhagen			I.	6th
1885	Seddin	Village church		I.	11
1885	Niegripp	Village church		II	12
1885	Klein Ziethen	Village church		I.	7th
1885	Gollin	Village church		I.	6th
1885	Mutton Spring	Village church		II	12
1885	Uenze	Village church		II	12
1885	Sogn and Fjordane	Førde Church		I.	8th
1886	Gorike	Village church		I.	11
1886	Brat	Village church		I.	6th
1886	Cooling	Village church		I.	8th
1886	Hardenbeck	Village church		I.	7th	Restoration of the organ from November 2014 to April 2015 by organ builder Tobias Schramm from Thomsdorf .
1887	Beenz	Village church		I.	6th
1887	Gömnigk	Village church		I.	8th	For a long time hardly or no longer playable, the organ was restored in 1994 by Berliner Orgelbau Karl Schuke .
1887	Lockstädt	Village church		I.	6th
1887	Rambov	Village church		II	10
1887	Rönnebeck			I.	8th
1887	Silmersdorf	Village church		I.	6th
1887	Netzow	Village church		I.	6th
1888	Buskow	Village church		I.	6th	The organ was restored in 2007 by master organ builder Matthias Beckmann from Friesack , and an electric wind generator was installed at the same time.
1888	Dossow	Village church		I.	9
1888	Fretzdorf	Village church		I.	6th	The organ, donated in 1888 by the then owner of the Fretzdorf estate, was restored in 2007.
1888	Granzow	Village church		I.	6th
1888	Preddöhl	Village church		I.	8th
1888	Storkow	Peter and Paul Church		I.	8th
1888	Rutenberg	Village church		I.	9
1888	Möre and Romsdal	Edoy Church		I.	6th
1888	Akershus	Furuset Church		I.	6th
1888	Akershus	Heni Church		I.	5
1888	Telemark	Kragerö Church		II	20th
1888	Telemark	Sannidal Church		I.	7th
1888	Telemark	Skatoy Church		II	14th
1889	Banzendorf	Village church		I.	6th
1889	Lindenberg			I.	10
1889	Akershus	Blaker Church		I.	6th
1889	Vestfold	Borre Church		I.	6th
1890	Reetz	Village church		I.	10
1890	Gantikow	Village church		I.	6th
1890	Seebeck	Village church		I.	5
1890	Wutike	Village church		I.	8th
1890	Thomsdorf	Village church		I.	7th	The organ fell victim to a church fire on August 29, 1990.
1890	Söllenthin	Village church		I.	7th
1890	Buskerud	Kongsberg Church		II	31
1890	Sör-Trondelag	Röros Church		II	16
1890	Sogn and Fjordane	Selje church		II	8th
1890	Akershus	Ski Church		II	8th
1891	Mützdorf	Village church		I.	4th
1891	Sör-Trondelag	Orkanger Church		I.	5
1891	Oslo	Sagene Church		II	18th
1891	Oppland	Slidre Church		I.	7th
1891	Telemark	Vestre-Porsgrunn Church		II	19th
1891	Mountains	St. Olav Cathedral		III	43	1997 replaced by an organ built into the prospectus of Albert Hollenbach by the Austrian organ builder Rieger .
1892	Lichtenberg			I.
1892	Heretic	St. Peter's Church		II	13
1892	Meseberg	Village church		I.	7th
1892	Storbeck	Village church		I.	5
1892	Mountains	Kreuzkirche (Korskirken)		III	38	In the course of his career, Hollenbach only built three organs with three manuals. Two of these were delivered to Bergen (to St. Olav Cathedral and the Kreuzkirche). Of these three organs, only the one in the Kreuzkirche still exists today.
1892	Hedmark	Tolga Church		I.	6th
1892	Mountains	Marienkirche (Mariakirken)				Organ builder Paul Ott installed a new organ in 1970, which was replaced in 2014 by an instrument from Weimbs Orgelbau .
1893	Neustadt (Dosse)	City Church ("Kreuzkirche")		II	14th
1893	Falkenhagen			I.	9
1893	Oslo	Pauluskirche		II	28
1894	mountains			I.	11
1894	Darritz	Village church		II	7th	Restoration in 2003.
1894	Leddin			I.	5
1894	Kleinow	Village church		I.	5
1894	Potter	Village church		II / P	15th	One of two preserved pneumatic Hollenbach organs. Restored in 2018/2019 by Alexander Schuke Orgelbau Potsdam.
1895	Kreuzburg	Village church		I.	5
1895	Water soup	Village church water soup		I.	6th	The organ was restored in 1998.
1895	Witzke	Village church		I.	8th
1895	Quadricycle	Village church		I.	14th	On April 20, 1945, the church was destroyed by the effects of the war. Only the walls surrounding the church were still standing. The Freundeskreis Kirchruine Vierraden e. V. has set itself the task of rebuilding the church.
1896	Hohenofen	Village church		I.	5
1896	Schoenberg			I.	4th
1896	Kribbe	Village church		I.	6th
1896	Neuruppin	State lunatic asylum
1896	Gross Dolln	Village church		I.	7th	The organ, built in 1883, was previously in the Kurtschlag Church .
1897	Summer field	Village church		I.	7th
1897	Hildebrandshagen	Village church		I.	5
1897	Liebenthal	Village church		I.	6th
1898	Vietmannsdorf	Village church		I.	5
1898	Neuruppin	Saint Mary's Church		III	46
1898	Rosenow	Village church		I.	6th
1899	Nietwerder	Village church		I.	6th
1899	Grossmutz	Village church		I.	8th
1900	Herzberg	Village church		I.	7th
1900	Berlinchen	Village church		I.		The pewter prospect pipes were removed for war purposes in 1917 and replaced by the Schuke organ builder in 1939 .
1900	Kehrberg	Village church		I.	7th
1900	Kleinzerlang	Village church		I.	7th
1900	Berlitt	Village church		I.	5
1900	Vernikov	Village church		I.	5
1900	Vettin	Village church		I.	5	Restoration in 2005 by master organ and harmonium builder Kirsten Babel from Gettorf .
1901	Moan	St. Martin village church		I.	10	In 2001 the organ was restored by the Christian Scheffler organ workshop .
1901	Schweinrich	Village church		I.	7th	The instrument was repaired in 1965 and 1966 by the Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau company .
1901	Walsleben	Village church		I.	8th
1901	Neuruppin	St. Lazarus Infirmary Chapel (Siechenhauskapelle)				Pipes dismantled during World War I, restored in 1930/1931 by master organ builder Carl Hoffmann from Neuruppin. Restoration and reconstruction in 2004 by the organ building workshop in Mecklenburg Organ Building .
1902	Deetz (Havel)	Village church		II / P	12	Organ brochure produced by the Gustav Kuntzsch Art Institute from Wernigerode .
1902	Gottberg	Village church		II	15th
1902	Koeritz	Parish church		II	19th
1902	Papenbruch	Village church		I.	8th	Birthplace of his teacher Lütkemüller. Organ repaired by Scheffler after 1990.
1902	Karwe	Village church		I.	7th
1902	Sewekow	Village church		I.	7th
1903	Karwesee	Village church		I.	7th
1903	Ragosen	Ragösen Church		I.	11
1903	Luckenwalde	St. Johannis Church		I.	7th
1903	Spots Zechlin	Church Flecken Zechlin		I.	7th

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• Biography Albert Hollenbach , accessed March 30, 2015.
• Memorial stone for Albert Hollenbach , accessed on April 1, 2015.
• Newspaper article about Albert Hollenbach , accessed March 30, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Albert Hollenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Albert Hollenbach in the catalog of the German National Library

Footnotes

1. ↑ A house of worship wrapped in foil. , accessed April 3, 2015.
2. ^ Open churches in Brandenburg. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
3. ↑ Catholic parish Herz Jesu Neuruppin , accessed on April 3, 2015.
4. ↑ ^{a b} village church in Groß Dölln , accessed on April 9, 2015
5. ↑ ^{a b} Kurtschlager Organ , accessed on April 9, 2015
6. ^ Speech for the organ inauguration on May 24, 2015 , accessed on July 30, 2016.
7. ^ The church in Gömnigk and its history , accessed on April 3, 2015.
8. ↑ Fretzdorf church , accessed on July 31, 2016.
9. ↑ Thomsdorf Church , accessed on August 1, 2016.
10. ^ Förderkreis Kreuzkircheorgel v , accessed on April 4, 2015.
11. ^ Marienkirche: New organ building ( memento from April 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 23, 2018.
12. ↑ Darritz village church , accessed on April 3, 2015.
13. ^ Village church water soup , accessed on August 2, 2016.
14. ↑ Vierraden village church , accessed on April 12, 2015.
15. ↑ Today: Ruppiner clinics .
16. ↑ Dorfkirche Berlinchen ( Memento from April 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 23, 2018.
17. ↑ Work carried out by Orgelbau Ulrich Babel ( Memento from May 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
18. ↑ Dorfkirche St. Martin (original from November 12, 2014 in the web archive), accessed on August 23, 2018.
19. ^ Organ workshop Christian Scheffler: Restorations , accessed on August 1, 2016.
20. ↑ Siechenkapelle / Lazaruskapelle , accessed on October 5, 2016.
21. ↑ Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - Monuments in Brandenburg, Volume 14.1: District Potsdam-Mittelmark, Part 1: Nördliche Zauche, communities Groß Kreutz, Kloster Lehnin, Michendorf, Schwielowsee, city Werder (Havel) as well as Gollwitz and Wust. Edited by Marie-Luise Buchinger, Marcus Cante et al. Wernersche, Worms 2009, ISBN 978-3-88462-285-8 , p. 112.