Carl August Randebrock

Carl August Randebrock (born December 2, 1825 in Recklinghausen , † June 22, 1876 in Paderborn ) was a German organ builder who worked in Lower Saxony, Westphalia and Lippe in the second half of the 19th century.

Life

Carl August Randebrock was the son of the innkeeper Franz Joseph Randebrock and his wife Anna Maria Pennekamp. His brother Eduard (* December 24, 1822, † February 20, 1870) continued his father's business. Randebrock was on December 4, 1825 St. Peter in the name Augustus Conrad Carolus baptized.

He probably completed his training as an organ builder with Wilhelm Kramer in Dülmen. At Franz Wilhelm Sonreck he was in 1851 hired as foreman. When installing the Sonreck organ in the Albaxen church in 1854, he asked the pastor there for a recommendation as an organ builder in the Archdiocese of Paderborn . Soon afterwards he moved to Paderborn and built a successful organ building workshop there. In addition to the orders in the region, he also exported three organs overseas: one instrument went to Detroit, one to Bahia / Brazil, and the third to Sandhurst in Australia. In the period from 1854 to 1876, around 100 organs were built in Randebrock's workshop.

Randebrock had four children with his wife Elisabeth Brake (1836–). When he died in June 1876 after a long illness, the company passed to his nephew Rudolph Randebrock (* 1842 - January 20, 1893), who had previously worked in his uncle's company. He ran the organ building workshop until 1888 and then handed it over to his foreman Carl Tennstädt. Until his death, Rudolph Randebrock worked as a merchant in Recklinghausen.

Work (selection)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1856/1865	Dahl (Paderborn)	St. Margaretha		II / P	21st	built in two construction phases; 1974 reconstruction by Stegerhoff, 2008 reconstruction by Hillebrand ; receive
1859	Neuenbeken	St. Mary		II / P	18th	receive
1861	Calle	St. Severin		II / P	23	almost completely preserved; 1974/1975 restored and extended by 3 registers
1864	Ostenfelde	St. Margaretha				Housing received
1865	Bega	Evangelical Church Bega		II / P	18th	largely preserved
1865 or 1868	Cappel	Evangelical Church in Cappel		II / P	16	completely preserved
1868	Enkhausen	St. Laurence				Conversion by Stockmann
1868	Frohnhausen (Brakel)	St. Bartholomew		II / P	15th	receive
1870	Rickelrath	St. Mary of the Assumption		I / P	7th	by Rudolph Randebrock
1871	Bendigo , Australia	St. Kilian's Catholic Church				built by Rudolph Randebrock, monument entry
1875	Rüthen	St. Nicholas		II / P		Extension of the organ by Adolf Cappelmann (1756); 1936 renovation
1881	Lottum , Netherlands	Gertrudiskerk		II / P	14th	by Rudolph Randebrock, damaged in 1944, reconstructed in 2004

literature

• Klaus Döhring: Organ building in the Warendorf district . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1995, ISBN 3-7618-1246-9 , p. 42-46 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kerkgebouwen in Limburg: Gertrudis. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .