August Troch

August Troch (born November 13, 1817 in Bornstedt ; † January 27, 1890 in Neuhaldensleben ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Troch started his own business as an organ builder in Bornstedt in 1847. A year later he moved the company to Neuhaldensleben, where an organ building tradition that lasted until 1939 was established. Since 1881 his son Otto Troch was co-owner of the then regionally important company.

August Troch was the teacher of the then leading Danish organ builder Daniel Köhne (full name: Johann Heinrich Daniel Köhne ; * December 26, 1828 in Copenhagen ; † March 17, 1878).

List of works (selection)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1853	Ivenrode	Salvator Church
1855	Jeetze	Village church		II	15th
1856	Flechtingen	Patronage Church		II / P	19th	preserved unchanged
1857	Weferlingen	St. Lamberti Church		II / P	27	The organ was inaugurated unfinished on October 4th, 1857, revised on December 5th, 1857. The oboe was installed from February 25th to March 5th, 1859. After that, on April 13th, 1859 the acceptance took place.
1857-1858	Calvörde	St. George's Church		II / P	28	New building behind the prospectus by Christoph Treutmann (1742), which was extended by two side towers, including some Treutmann registers; 1903 changes in the disposition by Hugo envelope; receive.
1858	Bülstringen	Church of the Holy Trinity
1861	Bregenstedt	Village church
1862	Winning life	Marienkirche				Restoration of the organ in 2014/2015 by the organ builders Gerd-Christian and Thomas Bochmann from Kohren-Sahlis .
1863	Plötzky	St. Mary Magdalene
1864	Listening singing	St. Stephen Church				The organ, built in 1864, was installed in Hörsingen in 1875.
1866	Jübar	Village church		I / P	8th
1868	Drux Mountains	St. James Church				Receive; Restored in 2014.
1868	Immekath	Village church		II / P	15th	The organ is one of the largest instruments still in existence by August Troch.
1873	Bismark	City Church				The Troch organ was replaced in 1947 by an instrument made by the Potsdam organ building firm Alexander Schuke .
1875	Klietznick	Village church		I / P	5	In 1998 the master organ builder Jörg Dutschke from Dambeck took over the repair and reconstruction of the badly damaged organ.
1877-1878	Haldensleben	Saint Mary's Church		III / P	42	Design by the company Karl Böttcher, Magdeburg , which went bankrupt during the organ building, completed in 1877/78 by Troch. Neo-Gothic organ prospectus from the organ building workshop Wilhelm Sauer , Frankfurt (Oder) . Fundamentally changed in 1936 by the Halberstadt-based organ building company Eduard Shell. A repair of the organ carried out in three construction phases from 1995 to 1998 by the Schuke-Orgelbau company (Potsdam) led to the instrument being temporarily usable. New organ planned.
1877-1878	Hundisburg	St. Andrew's Church		II / P	17th
1880	Rottmersleben	St. James Church		II		The organ was restored in 2010.
1881	Schenkenhorst	Village church		II / P	18th	A general overhaul of the Troch organ, one of the largest organs in the old district of Gardelegen , was carried out in 2012 by organ builder Martin Lodahl from Dingelstedt .
1882	Bath life	St. Peter Church				In 1882 the parish of Badeleben bought an organ that was originally built by organ builder J. B. Sasse from Gotha as a positive for the church in Sunstedt . At the same time as August Troch installed the instrument, a pedal was added and the disposition changed. After the organ was classified as “not repairable” in 1934, it was renewed and rebuilt in 1937 by the organ builder Furtwängler & Hammer (Hanover), including various parts of the old instrument.
1883	Dannefeld	Village church
1884	Krüssau	Jacobuskirche
1885	Marienborn	St. Marien Collegiate Church
1885	Kakerbeck	Village church
1887	Zobbenitz	St. Anne's Church		I / P	8th	1998 rebuilt by Jörg Bente from Helsinghausen using the case and part of the pipework .
1890	Samswegen	Saint Sebastian Church				The organ prospectus was produced by the Gustav Kuntzsch Company , Institute for Church Art, Wernigerode .
1895	Zens	St. Stephen's Church		II / P	9

Web links

Commons : August Troch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

1. ↑ August Troch , in: Sachsen-Anhalt-Wiki ( Memento from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 23, 2014.
2. ^ The organs of the Duchy of Braunschweig before 1810 . In: Acta Organologica . tape 30 , 2008, p. 89–242, here: p. 132 .
3. ↑ Whistle tones mean completion ( memento from August 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 18, 2018.
4. ↑ St. Stephanus Church Hörsingen , accessed on August 5, 2016.
5. ^ Organ in Druxberge , accessed on February 6, 2015.
6. ↑ Report on the condition of the August Troch organ in the Immekath village church , accessed on August 7, 2016.
7. ^ Status report on the Troch organ in Immekath ( Memento from July 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 13, 2018.
8. ↑ Evangelical Church Bismark ( Memento from August 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 18, 2018.
9. ^ The organ in the Klietznick village church , accessed on May 23, 2014.
10. ↑ On the history of the organs of the St. Marien Church , accessed on August 17, 2016.
11. ^ The organ in St. Andreas Hundisburg , accessed on July 17, 2018.
12. ↑ St. Jakobus Rottmersleben , accessed on August 5, 2016.
13. ↑ Troch organ with full sound again soon , accessed on May 23, 2014.
14. ↑ Parish “St. Petrus “ Badeleben , accessed on August 8, 2016.
15. ↑ The organ in the St. Anna Church in Zobbenitz , accessed on September 21, 2016.
16. ↑ Horst Ratschke, "From the Samsweger School Chronicle", in: Kulturspiegel der Gemeinde Niedere Börde - Official Gazette of the municipality, 19th year, Heimatblatt Brandenburg Verlag GmbH, Berlin, 6 September 2011, p. 10.