Alexander Schuke Potsdam organ building
Alexander Schuke Potsdam organ building | |
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legal form | GmbH |
founding | 1820 |
Seat | Werder (Havel) |
management | Michael and Johannes Schuke |
Number of employees | 18th |
Branch | Musical instrument making |
Website | http://www.schuke.de/ |
The Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau GmbH is a company incorporated in the 19th century German organ builder from Potsdam .
history
The organ builder Gottlieb Heise founded the company in Potsdam in 1820, he had a workshop built in the courtyard of a residential complex in the Holländerviertel . In 1848 his student Carl Ludwig Gesell took over the management of the company, initially together with Gustav Schulz, who soon went into business for himself. From 1868 the son Carl Eduard Gesell took over the management. When he died childless in 1894, Alexander Schuke bought the company and made it one of the most famous Brandenburg organ building companies. After his death in 1933, his two sons, Karl Ludwig Schuke and Hans-Joachim Schuke, ran the company together.
In 1950 the two brothers decided to found a second organ building workshop in Berlin. The political and economic situation at the time in post-war Germany made it advisable to create a work opportunity in the western part of Berlin , should the economic situation continue to narrow . Hans-Joachim Schuke continued to run the Potsdam company, which remained in private hands, on his own. With his move to Berlin in 1953, Karl Schuke took the opportunity to separate the Berlin workshop from the Potsdam company and continued to run it under the name of Karl Schuke Berliner Orgelbauwerkstatt GmbH. In 1972 the company was expropriated in the GDR and continued as VEB Potsdamer Schuke Orgelbau . Organ builder Matthias Schuke , an employee since 1974, successfully re- privatized the company in 1990 in the course of the economic and political turnaround and has been the owner and managing director ever since. In January 2004 the company moved into a new workshop building at Otto-Lilienthal-Straße 33 in the Havel meadows in Werder (Havel) .
Schuke received important orders for the new construction of organs for the cathedral in Erfurt , the cathedral in Magdeburg , the cathedral in Kaliningrad and also for the cathedral in Zamora in Mexico. In the 20th century the company developed into one of the leading German organ building companies with a worldwide reputation.
The company had to file for bankruptcy in November 2014 due to difficulties in delivering new organs to the Ukraine and Russia as well as payment defaults from these countries due to the economic sanctions against Russia . In solidarity with the traditional organ building company, some customers preferred planned orders. A Chinese art lover who bought the finished instrument for a Russian luxury hotel and also ordered a smaller one for training music students in Shanghai was helpful . In January 2017, the Potsdam District Court unanimously accepted the insolvency plan, so that the bankruptcy was averted and the company was saved. At the end of October 2017, Matthias Schuke announced that he would gradually hand over the company to his sons Johannes (* 1985) and Michael (* 1989), who had worked in the management of the company since the beginning of 2018. In October 2018 Johannes and Michael Schuke took over the management of the traditional company in the fourth generation. In November 2018 they received a major order for the restoration and expansion of the organ in the St. Katharinen church in Brandenburg an der Havel . Schuke had rebuilt the main organ , which is under monument protection, in 1936.
plant
Alexander Schuke first built the cone drawer , which he got to know from his teacher Eduard Gesell. He combined this technology with tube pneumatics in a solid construction . The company soon developed into one of the leading organ building companies in Brandenburg alongside Dinse and Sauer . After the First World War, the electric action was introduced as standard. As a result of the organ reform movements under Albert Schweitzer and Hans Henny Jahnn , Schuke orientated himself again on the principles of classical organ building and returned to the mechanical slide box. The first restorations of historical instruments were carried out at the end of the 1950s. In the meantime, the company has emerged through major restorations, such as the Scherer organ in Tangermünde (1624) and the Wagner organs in Brandenburg an der Havel (1725) and Angermünde (1744).
In cooperation with Schuke, the University of Potsdam is developing measurement methods with which the authentic sound of historical organ pipes can be determined.
Musicologists appreciate the "romantic and symphonic sound" of the Schuke organs, which is attributed to the careful selection of the pipe material and its processing in our own workshop. In contrast to the typical development in organ building, the Schukes use lead and tin together with the trace elements contained in the raw material, which leads to high stability and durability.
The opus list includes 630 new organs built between 1895 and 2015. In addition, there are more than 60 restorations (as of the end of 2017), the proportion of which has risen sharply since the end of the 1990s, as well as numerous conversions and extensions of existing works.
List of works (selection)
The list includes new buildings and restorations. The size of the instruments is indicated by the number of manuals (6th column) and the number of sounding registers (7th column). "P" stands for an independent pedal.
year | opus | place | building | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
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1895 | 1 | Bike trails near Brandenburg | I / P | 7th | |||
1898 | 45 | Golßen | Town church Golßen | II / P | 18th | In his catalog raisonné, Schuke gives the year of construction 1908 and 14 registers; Restored by Scheffler in 2010 | |
1906 | 28 | Luebben (Spreewald) | Paul Gerhardt Church | II / P | 29 | Parts of the previous organ from 1846 were used. Pneumatic action. → organ | |
1911 | 64 | Berlin-Schmöckwitz | Village church | II / P | 8th | → organ | |
1935 | 149 | Berlin-Mahlsdorf | Kreuzkirche | II / P | 10 | → organ | |
1936 | 153 | Potsdam | St. Peter and Paul | III / P | 41 | → organ | |
1938 | 172 | Mountains (nauen) | St. Peter and Paul | II / P | 10 | 1938 new building in the case of the organ built by Johann Tobias Turley in 1815 , pneumatic cone chests, 2 transmissions; 2001 general renovation | |
1942 | 198 | Berlin | University of Berlin | Badly damaged by the war in 1943, dismantled, stored in the Potsdam workshop and rebuilt in 1949 as op. 224. | |||
1943 | 199 | Hiddensee | Hiddensee island church | II / P | 8th | → organ | |
1947 | 214 | Bismark | City Church | II / P | 20th | Replacement for an instrument built in 1873 by August Troch from Neuhaldensleben . | |
1949 | 224 | Berlin | Parish hall of the Grunewald parish | II / P | 11 | from 1988 new location in the ecumenical community center Darmstadt-Kranichstein | |
1950 | 231 | Erfurt | Thomas Church | III / P | 57 | Expanded in several construction phases (1953, 1967, 1978, 1993, 2011) | |
1953 | 243 | Stendal | St. Nicholas | III / P | 56 | ||
1954 | 252 | Altfriedland | Monastery church | II / P | 11 | ||
1958 | 293 | Mulhouse | Divi Blasii Church | III / P | 42 | ||
1959 | Rest. 2 | Stralsund | Marienkirche | III / P | 51 | Restoration of the Stellwagen organ from 1659 | |
1960 | 305 | Potsdam-Hermannswerder | Island church | II / P | 23 | → organ | |
1960 | 312 | Löcknitz | Village church | II / P | 15th | The organ was completed in a second construction phase in 1978. | |
1961 | 313 | Gotha | Margaret Church | III / P | 36 | The organ is located in an organ case that was built by Johann Moritz Weise in 1632. → organ |
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1962 | 326 | Anklam | Marienkirche | II / P | 30th | ||
1963 | 332 | Jena | St. Michael | II / P | 51 | ||
1964 | 351 | Potsdam | Church of the Redeemer | III / P | 36 | ||
1965 | 354 | Berlin-Friedrichshain | St. Bartholomew Church | III / P | 36 | → organ | |
1965 | 364 | Rostock | Holy Cross Monastery | III / P | 33 | ||
1966 | 371 | Leipzig | Thomas Church | III / P | 47 | Mined in 1999, 42 registers and other parts in the organ of the cathedral at Fürstenwalde installed | |
1967 | 383 | Almaty ( Kazakhstan ) | conservatory | II / P | 32 | 2017 general overhaul | |
1968 | 390 | Greifswald | St. Jacobi Church | II / P | 30th | → organ | |
1968 | Rest. 6 | Angermünde | City parish church St. Marien | II / P | 30th | Restoration of the organ by Joachim Wagner (1742–1744) | |
1969 | 402 | Magdeburg | Magdeburg Cathedral , transept | III / P | 37 | ||
1969 | 404 | Bonn- Rüngsdorf | Church of the Redeemer | III / P | 34 | ||
1971 | 420 | Quedlinburg | Collegiate Church of St. Servatius | II / P | 28 | ||
1973 | 443 | Potsdam | Baptist Church | II / P | 10 | → organ | |
1973 | 448 | Sofia | concert hall | III / P | 55 | ||
1977 | 469 | Schalksmühle | Church of the Redeemer | II / P | 20th | ||
1977 | 470 | Erfurt | Preacher Church | III / P | 55 | behind the prospectus by Ludwig Compenius (1648) → organ | |
1981 | 499 | Leipzig | Gewandhaus | IV / P | 89 | 2008 expanded by 2 registers | |
1982 | 509 | Eisenach | George Church | III / P | 60 | behind the prospectus by Georg Christoph Stertzing (1707) → organ | |
1982 | Rest. 19 | Schwerin | Dom | IV / P | 84 | Restoration of the organ by Friedrich Ladegast from 1871 | |
1984 | 520 | Halle / Saale | Marktkirche Our Dear Women | III / P | 56 | behind the prospectus by Christoph Cuntzius | |
1985 | 534 | Berlin-Mahlsdorf | Village church | II / P | 15th | ||
1985 | 538 | Stralsund | Nikolaikirche | II / P | 22nd | → organ | |
1986 | 536 | Brandenburg on the Havel | St. Gotthardt | III / P | 44 | as a replacement for burned work by W. Sauer | |
1988 | 552 | Varna ( Bulgaria ) | Festival complex | III / P | 53 | ||
1989 | 559 | Weimar | Kreuzkirche | II / P | 16 | ||
1991 | 579 | Wismar | St. Laurence | IP / P | 19th | → organ | |
1992 | 583 | Erfurt | Erfurt Cathedral | III / P | 63 | → organ | |
1994 | 595 | Tangermünde | St. Stephan | III / P | 32 | Restoration / reconstruction of the organ by Hans and Fritz Scherer (1624) | |
1995 | 599 | Potsdam- Nattwerder | Village church | I / P | 8th | Case from 1797 → organ | |
1997 | 606 | Lublin ( Poland ) | Lublin Philharmonic | III / P | 51 | ||
1998 | Remainder. 31 | Brandenburg on the Havel | St. Peter and Paul Cathedral | II / P | 33 | Restoration of the organ by Joachim Wagner (1722–1725) | |
2000-2003 | 612 | Erfurt | Neuwerk Church | II / P | 28 | Restoration / reconstruction of the organ by Franciscus Volckland (1737) | |
2003 | 614 | Berlin-Spandau | St. Marien am Behnitz | II / P | 35 | ||
2005 | 613 | Fürstenwalde / Spree | St. Mary's Cathedral | IV / P | 69 | using op. 371, built in 1966 for the Leipzig Thomaskirche (III / P / 47) | |
2006 | 616 | Kaliningrad ( Russia ) | Koenigsberg Cathedral | II / P | 32 | Choir organ → organ | |
2008 | 618 | Kaliningrad ( Russia ) | Koenigsberg Cathedral | IV / P | 90 | Main organ → organ | |
2008 | 619 | Magdeburg | Magdeburg Cathedral , main organ | IV / P | 93 | → organ | |
2008 | 620 | Zamora de Hidalgo ( Mexico ) | Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe | III / P | 51 | ||
2011 | Remainder. 29 | Seehausen (Altmark) | Ev. Church of St. Petri | III / P | 44 | Restoration of the organ by Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller (1867) | |
2012 | 627 | Bardowick | Bardowick Cathedral St. Peter and Paul | III / P | 45 | Behind the historical prospectus by Ph. Furtwängler (1867) | |
2014 | 630 | Pingtung ( Taiwan ) | Performing Arts Center | III / P | 45 | ||
2015 | 631 | Lobetal | Hope Valley Foundation | II / P | 23 | Two mechanical game tables (lower church room and gallery) | |
2016 | 632 | Kharkiv ( Ukraine ) | Philharmonic | IV / P | 70 | ||
2011/2015/2019 | 626 | Potsdam | Ev. Pentecostal Church | II / P | 25th | New building in three construction phases behind the historic prospectus by Wilhelm Sauer (1896) |
literature
- Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 .
- Hannes Ludwig: Organ manual Brandenburg. Volume 1: Uckermark (western part) . Freimut & Selbst, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-9805293-7-1 .
- Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau GmbH: 100 years of Alexander Schuke organ building in Potsdam . Thomasius, Schwerin 1994.
- Matthias Schuke: Alexander Schuke Potsdam, Orgelbau GmbH . In: Thuringian Organ Journal . 1995, p. 58-60 .
Web links
- Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau GmbH website
- Catalog raisonné. ( Memento of 15 January 2016 Internet Archive ) Schuke organ building, pp 25-44 (PDF, 5 MB) The directory contains stating the manuals , registers and pedals all new buildings, renovations and repairs since 1820, including the Heise- and Gesell organs.
- Schuke Orgdatabase, 750 organs (Dutch, German)
- Schuke organ index, 85 organs
- Organ builder institute for organ research
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Torsten Müller: Organ pipes according to the rules of the forefathers . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 23, 2017, p. 20.
- ↑ a b c orgellandschaftbrandenburg.de: Orgelbauer , accessed on July 17, 2018.
- ↑ a b Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders. 1991, p. 301.
- ^ Wolf Bergelt : Organ tours through the Mark Brandenburg. Freimut & Selbst, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-7431-5217-7 , p. 239 limited preview in the Google book search.
- ↑ Traditional company in Potsdam. Organ builder files for bankruptcy. tagesspiegel.de, November 15, 2014, accessed on July 17, 2018 .
- ^ Organ builder Schuke saved. The world . January 19, 2017. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
- ↑ Luise Fröhlich: Organ building stays in the family. MAZ-online. October 27, 2017. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
- ↑ Website Alexander Schuke Orgelbau: Organ building in the 4th generation ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2018 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. , accessed December 11, 2018.
- ↑ Generation change in organ building Schuke. MAZ-online. December 14, 2018, accessed February 5, 2020.
- ↑ Enrico Bellin: Record order for organ builder Schuke. Potsdam latest news. November 6, 2018, accessed January 5, 2020.
- ↑ Steffen Uhlmann: Airy research against weird tones. Manufacturers have been trying to explain the mystery of the organ wind for centuries - the Schuke company in Potsdam has succeeded with the help of science . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 3, 2013.
- ↑ Alexander Schuke Orgelbau Werkverzeichnis ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 4.9 MB), accessed on July 17, 2018.
- ↑ Schuke catalog raisonné 2018, p. 25
- ↑ www.altekirchen.de Organ of the town church Golßen , accessed on July 17, 2018.
- ^ Orgel Databank: Organ in Bismark , accessed on July 17, 2018.
- ↑ Information on the organ of the Hope Valley Lobetal Foundation , accessed on April 6, 2020.
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '54 " N , 12 ° 54' 48.4" E