Andreas Weiß (organ builder, 1722)

Andreas White

Andreas Weiß (baptized June 11, 1722 in Nabburg ; † February 16, 1807 there ) was the founder of the organ builder family Weiß , who worked in Nabburg ( Upper Palatinate ) and Silesia from 1750 to 1858 .

Life

After his apprenticeship as an organ builder, he settled in Nabburg in 1750 and built new instruments primarily in the central and eastern Upper Palatinate. His descendants built and maintained organs until 1858.

List of works

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1743	Eichstatt	St. Walburg		I / P	8th	Prospectus is attributed to Andreas Weiss, work 1996 Mathis (II / P / 27)
1750	Moosbach	St. Peter and Paul				Brochure not preserved, before 1867 new building in Breil, 1898 new building in Maerz, 1982 new building in Weise (20 / II / P)
between 1750 and 1760	Schwarzenfeld	Miesberg, Holy Trinity				Prospectus received, new building 2006 Schädler (21 / II / P), choir organ behind the high altar (13 / II / P)
after 1750	Neualbenreuth	St. Laurence				The middle part of the case has the typical white features. 1910 new building Binder & Siemann (17 / II / P), 2005 new building Vleugels with Rückpositiv (37 / III / P)
1752	Eixlberg	St. Barbara		I / P	10	Prospectus and work received
1755	Roding	St. Pancras				in the picture the prospectus, transferred to Arnschwang St. Martin in 1959. In 1991 way (23 / II / P)
1755	Super tough	Maria Immaculata Monastery Church		I / P	9	1803 after the secularization of the monastery as a gift from the state to St. Martin in Griesbach near Mähring (picture), after the church burned down in 1800. In 1942 new building in Weise (12 / II / P).
1757	Eslarn	Assumption Day		II / P	18th	Prospectus received, 1973 new building Kaulmann (24 / III / P)
1758	Sulzbach-Rosenberg	Loretto Chapel		I / P	6th	Prospectus received, transferred to St. Hedwig's Church in 1843. Plant 1925 Weise (I / P / 5)
1759	Pfreimd	Assumption Day				Reconstruction, same as J. M: Weiss 1810, 1979 new building Kloss (25 / III / P)
1760	Schwarzhofen	Mary of Victory		II / P	16	Prospectus received, 1983 new building in Weise (18 / II / P)
1761	Luhe	St. Martin		II / P	10	Prospectus received, 1997 new building Thomas Jann (22 / II / P)
1765	Neustadt / Waldnaab	St. Felix		I / P	10	1880 transferred to Allersburg ; Prospectus and work received
1766	Loitzendorf	St. Margaretha				Prospectus received, plant 1986 Weise (II / P / 9)
1771	Branch	Our Lady		II / P	14th	Prospectus and work preserved, restoration 1995 Hubert Sandtner (Dillingen)
1777	Rauenzell / Krs. Ansbach			I / P	10	Brochure received up to the new building in 1911 (8 / I / P), 2003 new building by Jürgen Lutz with a new brochure
1780	Eichstatt	Cathedral, Willibald Choir
1782	Roding	Heilbrünnl pilgrimage church		I / P	9	Prospectus received, in it Binder and Siemann 1898 from Roding St. Pankratius (12 / II / P)
1782	Ensdorf	St. Jacob		II / P	24	Prospectus received (sign in the case), new building 1913 Binder & Siemann, 2009 general overhaul Kilbert, Regensburg
1788	Furth in the forest	Assumption Day		II / P	20th	Brochure received, 1982 new building in Eisenbarth (housing addition, 32 / III / P)
1790	Willows in the Upper Palatinate	St. Sebastian				not received. Steinmeyer (II / P / 9) from Maria Waldrast in Weiden in 1947
1791	regensburg	Old chapel		II / P	29	The Pope Benedict Organ ( Mathis ), Näfels CH , was built there in 2006 on the basis of Weiss's disposition
1793	Lappersdorf	Assumption Day				not received
1796	Nabburg	St. John Baptist				not received
1797	Oberviechtach	St. John Baptist		II / P	18th	Prospectus received, 1913 new building. 1954, 1964 conversions Weise (23 / II / P), 2012 new building in Eisenbarth with additional housing (31 / II / P)
1798	Wutschdorf	St. Martin				1990 Mathis building (16 / II / P)
1799	Neumarkt	St. John				not preserved, 1982 new Mathis building (43 / III / P)
before 1800	Böhmischbruck	Assumption Day				Prospectus received, 2009 new Kubak building (16 / II / P, Zimbelstern)
before 1800	Untertraubbach near Cham	St. Martin				Plant 1990 Weise (17 / II / P)
around 1800	Tännesberg	St. Michael		I / P	12	Prospectus received, 1983 new building in Weise (22 / II / P)
around 1800	Sulzbach-Rosenberg	St. John				Brochure received, 1998 new building in Deininger & Renner (18 / II / P)
1801	Oberaltaich	St. Peter and Paul		II / P	21st	in the Weiss prospectus 1911 Steinmeyer (II / P / 32), extension 1963 Eduard Hirnschrodt (48 / III / P), on the gallery on the left, way 1950 from the Guardian Angel Church Straubing (26 / II / P)

Attributions

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
?	Eichstatt	St. Walburga
?	Frankenhof, Illschwang municipality	St. Margaretha				The middle part is strongly reminiscent of white. Register labels in the former central console are still legible. Werk 1891 Steinmeyer (I / P / 4), on the side
?	Pertolzhofen	Maria Immaculate				A Binder organ (1915, 9 / II / P), restored by Thomas Jann in 2004, is housed in the typical white case
around 1750	Nittendorf	St. Catherine				Factory 1992 Sandtner (II / P / 18)
after 1750	Wernberg-Koeblitz	St. Anna				Housing preserved (Funtsch attribution, as with Fischer / Wohnhaas does not appear plausible), 1938 new Hirnschrodt building, 1954 conversion (13 / II / P)
around 1760	Schwarzenfeld	St. Dionys and Aegidius (old parish church)				Brochure received, 1912 new building for Binder and Siemann (II / P / 17)

progeny

Franz Joseph White (I.)

Life

Franz Joseph Weiß (baptized February 11, 1755 in Nabburg; † July 1, 1825 ) in Peiskretscham , a son of Andreas Weiß, went abroad at the age of 19 (Graz, Vienna, Pressburg, Budapest, Prague, Leipzig, Berlin, Hamburg , Danzig, Warsaw, Breslau) and finally settled in Peiskretscham (Upper Silesia). He built traditional baroque instruments with a manual.

Proven works

• 1783 Keltsch (Kielcza)
• 1790 Braunbach near Gleiwitz (Rudno)
• 1792 Ackerfelde near Gleiwitz (Ziemientzitz)
• 1795 Gnadenfeld near Ratibor (Pawlowiczki), Moravian Brethren
• 1796 Jarischau near Groß Strehlitz (Jaryszów)
• 1800 Rachowitz near Gleiwitz (Rachowice)
• 1805 Pszow near Rybnik (Pszów)
• 1806 Kochlowitz, district of Ruda bei Kattowitz (Kochlowice), Church of Our Lady of Lourdes
• 1807 Rybnik (Ribnich), Church of Our Lady of Sorrows
• 1816 Pniow near Peiskretscham (Pniów)
• 1817 Odersch near Ratibor (Oldrisov, today Czech)
• 1819 Neustadt (Prudnik), Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession
• 1820 Lubschau near Lublinitz (Lubsza)
• 1822 Cosel (Kozle)

Johann Michael White

Life

Johann Michael Weiß (* 1766 in Nabburg; † 1848 ), a son of Andreas Weiß, took over the organ building workshop from him in 1807 and continued it.

Proven works

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1805	Beam field	St. Barbara				In the case inscription "built ... 1805 in the month of July", 1827 cleaning and tuning JM Weiß, 2004 restoration and expansion way
1806	Hohentreswitz	St. Bartholomew				not preserved, 1921 new building Binder und Siemann (9 / II / P), neo-Gothic prospect, therein new building Weise 1997 (10 / II / P)
1808	Old butterflies	Old Chapel of St. Bartholomew				Prospectus received, therein: 2014 Kilbert (6 / I / P)
1810	Pfreimd	Assumption Day		II / P	16	1759 Remodeling like Andreas Weiß in the preserved prospectus from 1690 (Kannhäuser?), 1911 new building Binder und Sohn, 1979 new building Kloss (25 / III / P).
1814	Pförring	St. Leonhard				Prospectus received, including 2011 Sandtner op.332 (24 / II / P)
1816	Stamsried	St. Johann Baptist		I / P	10	Prospectus received, 1984 new building in Weise (17 / II / P)
1818	Harrling	St. Bartholomew				Prospectus received, therein pneumatic work (? / II / P)
1820	Pösing near Cham	St. Vitus		II / P	10	Prospectus received, including 1996 new building in Weise (14 / II / P)
1832	Fahrberg	Visitation of the Virgin Mary		I / P	12	Prospectus received, in it 1960 new building by Friedrich Meier (18 / II / P)
1832	Wolfring	St. Michael				Brochure supplemented by side towers, in it 2005 new building Hubert Sandtner (Dillingen) (12 / II / P)
1845	Schwarzach	Ortisei				Housing preserved, in it 1914 new building by Binder and Siemann (8 / I / P)

Attributions

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
after 1836	Burglengenfeld	Kreuzbergkirche, built in 1836		I / P	7th	Typical Weiss prospectus, Joseph Weiss II could also be considered, case preserved, in it Binder and Siemann 1914 (7 / I / P)

Joseph White (II.)

Life

Joseph Weiß (* 1788 in Nabburg; † 1858 there ), a son of Johann Michael Weiß, continued the workshop in the third generation. It went out with his death.

Works

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1846	Koppenwall, Pfeffenhausen community	St. Bartholomew				The housing with defective pipe dummies recorded in April is reluctant to assign white (ODB Bayern 2009). Weise plant 1923 (I / 3)
1849	Oberpfreimd	St. Martin				not preserved, inventory 2013: 1882 Heinrich Buck Bayreuth (5 / II / P)

literature

• Michael Bernhard: Organ Database Bavaria , Version 5, 2009.
• Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : The organ builder white from Nabburg. in: Die Oberpfalz 1977, pp. 233-240.
• Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Organ monuments in Middle Franconia. Ulrike Schneider Rensch Orgelbaufachverlag, Lauffen am Neckar 2001, ISBN 3-921848-08-3 .
• Eberhard Kraus: Historic organs in the Upper Palatinate. Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7954-0387-1 .
• Michael Sandt: The organ builder Andreas Weiß. In: The Pope Benedict Organ. Edited chapter of our dear lady on the old chapel Regensburg. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2006, ISBN 3-7954-1885-2 .
• Theodor Wohnhaas : Notes on Church Music from Speinhart. In: Heimat Eschenbach 1981, ed. Heimatverein Eschenbach, pp. 25–27.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ars Organi 2016/2, pp. 69–71, Franciszek Koenig, 19th century organ builder in Upper Silesia