Balthasar Conrad Euler

Balthasar Conrad Euler (born July 19, 1791 in Gottsbüren , † March 11, 1874 there ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Balthasar Conrad Euler was a member of a family of organ builders in Gottsbüren that was founded by Joachim Kohlen (1598–1676), then passed on to Johann Stephan Heeren , a grandson of Anna Kohlen, and continued for several generations.

Balthasar Conrad Euler was the son of Johann Stephan Heeren's daughter Anna Elisabeth, who on December 7th, 1784 had first married the organ builder Johann Friedrich Euler (born April 16, 1759 in Frischborn ; † June 18, 1795 in Gottsbüren), one son of the schoolmaster Johann Balthasar Euler from Frischborn. After the early death of her first husband, she married Johann Dietrich Kuhlmann (around 1775–1846), who took over the workshop in 1804, which was initially called "Heeren und Kuhlmann".

When Balthasar Conrad Euler, who was initially an employee of his stepfather, started working in the company, it operated under the name “Euler und Kuhlmann” from around 1815. In 1825/26 he took over the workshop as his maternal inheritance, and Kuhlmann opened his own workshop in Gottsbüren, which was later continued by his biological son and grandson.

In 1832 Euler bought a house in Wahmbeck in order to be considered a resident in the Kingdom of Hanover and to continue to receive organ building orders there. In the 1850s Euler was mayor of Gottsbüren and also a member of the 14th Kurhessisches Landtag (1852-1854). His sons Friedrich Wilhelm and Heinrich Ludwig led the family business to a new bloom under the name Gebrüder Euler and were appointed royal court organ builders in 1878.

Balthasar Conrad Euler also gained importance because he became August Röth's teacher .

The company existed in Hofgeismar until the end of the 20th century and was then, with a total of twelve generations, the oldest organ building company in Germany.

plant

Euler's field of activity extended from northern Hesse through southern Lower Saxony to eastern Westphalia . The company stuck with the mechanical sliding drawer for a long time . A pneumatic box drawer was patented around 1890 ; later they switched to the pneumatic membrane drawer and finally turned back to the mechanical sliding drawer.

List of works (selection)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1827	Elze	Peter and Paul Church		II / P	23	Mostly preserved
1829	Flours (Elze)	St. Mary			I / P	11
1829	Düderode	St. Petri		I / P	11	6 registers completely, one partially preserved; 1989/90 restoration by organ builder leader ; 2010 cleaning and renovation by Mebold
1830	Deisel	Ev. church				receive
1831/32	Gieselwerder	Ev. church		II / P	14th	rearrangements in the 20th century
1834	Grasdorf (Holle)	St. Mary				receive
1836	Bad Bodenteich	St. Petri		II / P		Prospectus received
1836	Northeim	St. Sixti		III / P	52	Reconstruction of the organ by Johann Heinrich Gloger (1721–32), 10 registers wholly or partially preserved by Euler / Strobel
1837-1838	Loshausen	Ev. church		I / P	15th
1841	Steinbrück (Söhlde)	Assumption Day		II / P	17th
1844	Arolsen	Catholic Church
1843-1845	Dransfeld	St. Martini		II / P	21st	Reconstruction of 6 registers by Martin Haspelmath (1984/85)
1845	Uslar	St. John's Church		II / P	27	Restoration by Rudolf Janke ; Repaired and demolded in 2013
1845	Vahlbruch	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	16	3 registers reconstructed by Martin Haspelmath (1978)
1848	Hillerse	Ev.-luth. church		I / P	12	largely preserved
1848	Norten-Hardenberg	Chapel orphanage		I / P	9	1974 Extension by one register
1854	Lichtenau	Luth. church		I / P	10	together with Georg Carl Kuhlmann ; largely preserved

literature

• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders: 1891–1991 . Ed .: Association of German Organ Builders. Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 .
• Dieter Großmann: organs and organ builders in Hessen (=  contributions to Hessian history 12 ). 2nd Edition. Trautvetter & Fischer, Marburg 1998, ISBN 3-87822-109-6 .
• Reinhard Jaehn: The Euler organ (1841) of the Catholic parish church in Steinbrück near Hildesheim . In: Ars Organi . tape 30 , no. 3 , 1982, pp. 180-188 .
• Hans Römhild: Germany's oldest organ building company . In: Hessian homeland . tape 17 , no. 4 , 1967, p. 110-116 .
• Eckhard Trinkaus, Gerhard Aumüller : Organ building in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district . In: Friedhelm Brusniak, Hartmut Wecker (ed.): Music in Waldeck-Frankenberg. Music history of the district . Bing, Korbach 1997, ISBN 3-87077-098-8 , pp. 144-202 .
• Eckhard Trinkaus: Organs and organ builders in the former Ziegenhain district (Hesse) (=  publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 43 ). Elwert, Marburg 1981, ISBN 3-7708-0713-8 .

See also

• List of organ builders
• List of organs in southern Lower Saxony

Web links

• Organ Atlas Ostwestfalen-Lippe: Westphalian organ builders active in Westphalia
• Diocese of Fulda: Euler family of organs (PDF file) (13 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Werner Coordes: Organ Atlas Ostwestfalen-Lippe: Westphalian organ builders active in Westphalia , viewed June 6, 2011.
2. ^ ^{A b c} Eckhard Trinkaus, Gerhard Aumüller: Organ building in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district . In: Friedhelm Brusniak, Hartmut Wecker (ed.): Music in Waldeck-Frankenberg. Music history of the district . Bing, Korbach 1997, ISBN 3-87077-098-8 , pp. 332 .
3. ^ Eckhard Trinkaus, Gerhard Aumüller: Organ building in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district . In: Friedhelm Brusniak, Hartmut Wecker (ed.): Music in Waldeck-Frankenberg. Music history of the district . Bing, Korbach 1997, ISBN 3-87077-098-8 , pp. 190 .
4. ↑ NOMINE eV: Organ in Bodenteich, St. Peter saw, December 18, 2011; sixti-northeim.de: history of the organ , seen December 18, 2011; Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area. Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 , p. 72.
5. ↑ Diocese of Fulda: Euler family of organ builders - based on Hermann Fischer “100 years of the Federation of German Organ Builders” (PDF file, 13 kB), viewed June 6, 2011.
6. ^ Hans Römhild: Germany's oldest organ building company . In: Hessian homeland . tape 17 , no. 4 , 1967, p. 110-116 .
7. ↑ Hermann Fischer: 100 Years of the Association of German Organ Builders: 1891–1991 . Ed .: Association of German Organ Builders. Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 , p. 180 .
8. ↑ Festschrift for the rededication of the Conrad Euler organ in Elze (with illus.), As seen on October 21, 2019.
9. ^ Restoration report by Fritz Schild: Monument organs. Documentation of the restoration by organ building guides 1974-1991 . Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2005, ISBN 978-3-7959-0862-1 , pp. 274-288.
10. ↑ Ev.-luth. Parishes of Düderode / Oldenrode and Wiershausen (m. Ill.), As seen on October 21, 2019.
11. ↑ orgelbau-krawinkel.de: Organ in Hillerse , seen September 5, 2012.