Anton Turk

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Anton Turk (born January 17, 1868 in Kostreinitz ( Lower Styria ), † September 12, 1940 in Klausen ) was an Austrian - German organ builder .

Life

Anton Turk was a son of the carpenter Michael Turk from Kostreinitz in Lower Styria. After the end of his apprenticeship as an organ builder on August 22, 1886, Turk received the apprenticeship letter from his teacher Franz Kosak with the addition that he should be recognized as a properly trained journeyman organ builder and willing to make the best possible progress in all places . It is not known exactly when Turk came to the pilgrimage site of Klausen to work in Heinrich Voltmann's organ building workshop , presumably during his traveling years . He and Voltmann built their first joint organ in the Lieser Petruskirche in 1890.

From 1900 he ran the workshop together with Voltmann until his death in 1909. After that Anton Turk changed the design of the organs, unlike Volt man only one or two manual loop chest organs with mechanical game - and key action had built. Turk subsequently only built organs with the pneumatic stop action invented by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll and also developed his own diaphragm shutter . From the 1920s, Turk offered rebuilding and enlarging organs based on the new multiplex system . After Turk's death in 1940, his son Heinrich Turk (1904–1974), who was also an organ builder, continued his father's business. With a few exceptions, Heinrich dealt with the maintenance and repair of organs; an organ he built in Klüsserath from 1949/1950 is still preserved today. After Heinrich's death in 1974, the Voltmann-Turk company went out completely.

Works (selection)

The following work could be verified so far:

year place church image Manuals register Remarks
1910 Three St. Martin II / P 15th New building; 1968 neo-baroque by way; receive
1911 Laufeld St. Willibrord I / P 6th New building, not preserved
1912 Dörbach St. Gangolf I / P 4th New building; (receive?)
1914 Longkamp St. Andrew II / P New building; not received
1922 Osann St. Peter
Osann, St. Peter (Turk organ) (3) .jpg
 II / P 13 New building (received)
1929 Tholey St. Mauritius Abbey Church II / P 26 (40) New building; 1958 sold to St. Maternus (Aschbach) ; Abandoned in 1988. Some registers could be played as extensions in two foot pitches.
1931 Hupperath St. Hubertus I / P 6th New building
1931 Minority St. Simon and Judah I / P 6th New building (received)
1932 Illerich St. Vincent II / P 15th New building (preserved); In the general sill
1938 Klausen (Eifel) Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary II / P 27 1977 renovation by Sebald; 1993 dismantling; 2006 new building in Rieger
1949 Kluesserath Holy Rosary Queen II / P 23 2015 Complete renewal of the technology by Hubert Fasen.

family

Anton Turk had been in Sehlem since November 24, 1903 with Catharina Voltmann (born May 4, 1866 in Klausen), a daughter of Heinrich Voltmann and his wife Anna Maria, née. Becker, married.

literature

  • Heinz Monz (Ed.), Reinhold Schneck (Author): Turk, Anton. In: Trier Biographical Lexicon. WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 , p. 475.
  • Matthias Thömmes (Author): The organ builders Voltmann and Turk from Klausen. In: Yearbook of the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich 1996, pp. 360–362.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g The organ builders Voltmann and Turk from Klausen. In: Trier Organ Point
  2. ↑ The organ in the Catholic parish church of St. Vinzenz - excerpt from "Parish church of St. Vinzenz in Illerich 1901-2001", In: Illerich
  3. ↑ Catharina Voltmann in Germany, selected births and baptisms, 1558–1898, FHL film number: 464895, In: Ancestry.de
personal data
SURNAME Turk, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Kostreinitz
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1940
Place of death Klausen (Eifel)