Andreas Schweimb

Andreas Schweimb (* 1654 in Dedeleben near Halberstadt; baptized on November 22, 1654 ; † January 31, 1701 ; buried on February 13, 1701 in Einbeck ) was a master organ builder of the Baroque period . He worked in Einbeck in the last quarter of the 17th century. Organs from his workshop are mainly found in the Lower Saxony area.

The Hildesheim bishop Jobst Edmund von Brabeck commissioned Schweimb to build the organs in the field monasteries Heiningen , Wöltingerode , Lamspringe , Ringelheim and Riechenberg , which were re-Catholicized after 1643 (restitution of the Great Hildesheim Monastery) , and also to build two organs in his Westphalian possessions, Letmathe and Hemer .

“Andreas Schweimb, together with his successor Johann Jacob John, played a central role in organ development in the area on both sides of the Upper Weser around 1700. He was the only organ builder active in what is now Lower Saxony at that time, Arp Schnitger in the size of the projects, the independence the concepts as well as the quality of the craftsmanship and the intonation was equal. "

“The most noticeable differences in Schweimb's construction compared to the Arp Schnitgers and the other north German organ builders can be seen in the former in the exclusive use of the improved spring drawer , the expansion of the pedal circumference up to the crossed-in e and the waiver of the Rückpositiv . The piano circumference ranged in Schweimb of C, D, Dis-e, 51 keys comprising. "

After his death, Arp Schnitger, who was Schweimb's competitor in several organ projects, said that he, Schnitger, “would not have thought that such an artist would be in the world; it would be a pity that it should rot ”.

plant

Only the organs in Lamspringe and Ringelheim have survived in substantial parts of Schweimb's organs. All in all, Schweimb organs for the following churches have been documented or are most likely attributed to

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1687	Greene (Kreiensen)	St. Martini		I.	about 10	Prospectus received. Expanded and rebuilt several times: Pedal by Johann Christoph Hüsemann (1753), Rückpositiv by AG Friesenberg (1774–1775), conversion to II / P 21 by Gebr. Euler (1864), Gebr. Dutkowski (1932)
1688	Kirchberg ( Seesen )	Ev. church		I.	8th	replaced by a new instrument in 1885 and 1970
around 1690	Brevörde	St. Urban		I.	9	Original location possibly Höxter, Minoritenkirche (today's Evangelical Marienkirche)
1691	Halle (Weser Uplands)	Ev. church		I.	9	Was replaced by H. Faber in 1881 by an instrument with II / P 17, which is still almost unchanged today.
1692	Langenholz	St. Mary Magdalene				The older prospectus has been preserved, the work was renewed around 1865 by P. Furtwängler, Elze
1693	Lamspringe	St. Hadrian and Dionysius		II / P	40	In 1876 the Philipp Furtwängler & Sons company built a new building in which 24 votes were accepted.
around 1695	Salzgitter - Ringelheim	St. Abdon and Sennen		I / P	19th	Rückpositiv later, possibly by JJ John, pedal towers around 1796; Restoration in 1975 by Gebr. Hillebrand
1696	Wöltingerode	Wöltingerode Monastery		I.	14th	Sold to Magdeburg in 1809, destroyed in 1945.
1697	Langelsheim	St. Andrew		I.	8th	Replaced in 1761 by a new building by Johann Christoph Hüsemann
1698	Heiningen	St. Peter and Paul		II / P	about 30	Remodeling by H. Vieth around 1868; 1989 restoration by M. Haspelmath
around 1700	Letmathe	St. Kilian
around 1701	Stadtoldendorf	Ev. church		I / P	9	Replaced in 1803 by a new building by S. Heeren
1701	Eschershausen	St. Martin		I.	9	Badly damaged when the church tower collapsed in 1737, later destroyed.
around 1700	Riechenberg Monastery	Riechenberg Monastery		II / P	34	after Schweimb's death initially continued to be built by his student and colleague Johann Jakob John; completed by M. Naumann
1702	Hemer	St. Peter and Paul

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monika Tontsch in: St. Abdon and Sennen Salzgitter-Ringelheim , Regensburg 1995, p. 12.
2. ^ Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 , p. 77 .
3. ↑ Kaufmann, p. 72.
4. ↑ quoted from: Ibo Ortgies : The practice of organ tuning in Northern Germany in the 17th and 18th centuries and its relationship to contemporary music practice. Dissertation, Göteborg 2004, p. 86.
5. ^ Uwe Pape : The organs of the Duchy of Braunschweig before 1810 . In: Acta Organologica . tape 30 . Merseburger, Kassel 2008, p. 146 f .
6. ^ Uwe Pape: The organs of the Duchy of Braunschweig before 1810 . In: Acta Organologica . tape 30 . Merseburger, Kassel 2008, p. 166 f .
7. ↑ Gerhard Aumüller , Mads Kjersgaard and Wolfgang Wagner: Considerations on the origin of the organ in Brevörde (Weserbergland). In: Ars Organi . 54, 2006, pp. 217-227.
8. ^ Uwe Pape : The organs of the Duchy of Braunschweig before 1810 . In: Acta Organologica . tape 30 . Merseburger, Kassel 2008, p. 152 f .
9. ^ Johann Hermann Biermann, Uwe Pape: Organographia Hildesiensis Specialis from 1738, reprint with an appendix by Uwe Pape . Georg Olms, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13695-0 , p. 73-82 .
10. ↑ Attributed in 1994 by Cornelius H. Edskes , Groningen.
11. ^ Johann Hermann Biermann, Uwe Pape: Organographia Hildesiensis Specialis from 1738, reprint with an appendix by Uwe Pape . Georg Olms, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13695-0 , p. 63-72 .
12. ^ Johann Hermann Biermann, Uwe Pape: Organographia Hildesiensis Specialis from 1738, reprint with an appendix by Uwe Pape . Georg Olms, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13695-0 , p. 122-125 .
13. ^ Uwe Pape: The organs of the Duchy of Braunschweig before 1810 . In: Acta Organologica . tape 30 . Merseburger, Kassel 2008, p. 174 f .
14. ^ Johann Hermann Biermann: Organographia Hildesiensis Specialis . Hildesheim 1738, p. 23 .
15. ^ Johann Hermann Biermann, Uwe Pape: Organographia Hildesiensis Specialis from 1738, reprint with an appendix by Uwe Pape . Georg Olms, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13695-0 , p. 126-134 .
16. ^ Uwe Pape: The organs of the Duchy of Braunschweig before 1810 . In: Acta Organologica . tape 30 . Merseburger, Kassel 2008, p. 209 .
17. ^ Uwe Pape: The organs of the Duchy of Braunschweig before 1810 . In: Acta Organologica . tape 30 . Merseburger, Kassel 2008, p. 140 .
18. ^ Johann Hermann Biermann, Uwe Pape: Organographia Hildesiensis Specialis from 1738, reprint with an appendix by Uwe Pape . Georg Olms, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13695-0 , p. 83-86 .

literature

• Walter Hans Kaufmann : Andreas Schweimb and Johann Jacob John, two organ builders from the Baroque period in Einbeck . In: Einbecker Jahrbuch , 29, 1970, pp. 69-81.