Augustin Simnacher

Simnacher's last work: the Brixner cathedral organ (only the case is preserved)

Augustin Simnacher (born January 27, 1688 in Irsingen near Buchloe ; † October 24, 1757 in Brixen , Austria) was a German organ builder .

When Maria Rosa Guggemoos married in 1720, he also took over the workshop of his father-in-law Johann Guggemoos, who had died a year earlier and worked as an organ builder and schoolmaster in Tussenhausen / Angelberg. Simnacher was then not only active in southern Germany, but also in Austria / Tyrol.

Proven works

• 1722 Annunciation (Mindelheim) (Jesuit Church)
• 1723 Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Ilgen)
• 1725 Former Ursuline Church (Innsbruck)
• 1725 Maria Hilf chapel ( Mühlau near Innsbruck)
• 1732 St. Georg (Bedernau)
• 1737 Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Kirchhaslach)
• 1738 St. Martin (Tussenhausen)
• 1756 Holy Cross Church (Landsberg am Lech)
• 1758 Bressanone Cathedral .

But he could not finish the organ for the Bressanone Cathedral because he died while it was being built. His son Joseph Antoni Simnacher, his son-in-law Alexander Holzhey and his nephew Johann Nepomuk Holzhey , who was to become one of the most important organ builders of the South German Baroque, completed this work.

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