Heinrich Wilhelm Breidenfeld

Heinrich Wilhelm Breidenfeld (* 1794 in Niederwenigern / Westphalia ; † June 25, 1875 in Trier ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Heinrich Wilhelm Breidenfeld learned the organ trade from Caspar Melchior Vorenweg (until 1827) and began working as an independent organ builder in Münster in 1826. The rebuilding of the cathedral organ in Münster in 1830 increased his reputation, so that three years later the Trier cathedral chapter commissioned him to build the organ in the west choir. Shortly after its completion, Breidenfeld moved his company to Trier in 1838. With his work he ousted the Stumm family of organs that dominated Trier . His sons Joseph Breidenfeld (1832–1898) and Heinrich Breidenfeld (1842–1906) took over the company after his death in 1875 under the name “Gebr. Breidenfeld ”and built 53 organs, 13 of them in Trier alone.

In total, the family of organ builders delivered around 60 new organs, most of them to the diocese of Trier, some also to the dioceses of Münster and Luxembourg. After the turn of the century, the company got into trouble and finally gave up operations. In 1912 she was no longer mentioned in the Trier address book. Breidenfeld organs, largely preserved in their original state, can still be found in Dieblich, Bekond, Nennig, Thörnich, Schalkenmehren and Lösnich.

Proven work (selection)

year	opus	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1826		trier	Trier Cathedral auxiliary organ
1830		Muenster	St. Paul Cathedral		III / P	54	Modification of the Möller organ in 1755; Destroyed in 1943
1831		Muenster	St. Ludgerus Church		II / P	22nd
1835		Lengerich	Protestant church		II / P	24	2001 restoration of the Klais → organ
1836		Loss	St. Anna		III / P	22, today 39	1984 restoration / new building
1836		Herringen	St. Peter and Paul		I.	6th	Receive; 1905 conversion of Stockmann; 1981 restoration of Stockmann / Werl.
1837		trier	Trier Cathedral		III / P	52	Demolished in 1905
1839		Grevenmacher , Luxembourg				20th	Not received; 1930/58 steel hat; 1983 New west fields 22 registers.
1843		trier	Liebfrauenkirche (Trier)			33	Later in St. Laurentius.
1844		Weiskirchen				16	Badly damaged in 1945; Early 1950s new building at Späth 28 Reg.
1844		Mettlach				14th
1846		Losheim				16	1985 New building in Oberlinger.
1847		trier	St. Gervacius		II / P	22nd	Destroyed in 1944
1848		Wittlich	St. Mark		II / P	27	New building in housing (1767) by Schreiber. 1958 conversion of the Klais, partly preserved; 2001 Sandtner restoration.
1850		Luxembourg	St. Alfons Church		II / P	26th	1923 reconstruction of Stahlhuth-Haupt / Lintgen Modifications 1952, 1963, 1972, 1981 (51 / III)
1851		Völklingen	St. Eligius			20th	1912 New church building: 1928 new steel hat.
1852		Ettelbruck , Luxembourg	St. Sebastian		I / p	12	Not preserved, 1975 new manufacture. Lintgen.
1854		Dillingen	St. Johann			12	Not received.
1854	43	Thieving	St. John's Church		II / P	29
1858		trier	St. Paulin		II / P	33	1934 extension / reconstruction of Klais, 1991 rest. Klais
1860		Pfaffenthal , Luxembourg
1860		Nalbach	St. Peter and Paul		II / P	19th	1948 Julius Reimsbach added a second manual; 1974 new building Mayer II / 23. The Rückpositiv is new from Mayer.
1862		trier	Parish Church of St. Antonius			19th
1863		Prüm	Saint Salvator's Basilica		II / P	36	New building in Nollet housing from 1786. Conversion 1973 Klais. 2 shops and some reg. Are old (1863)
1866		trier	St. Joseph's Church			27	Church of the Redemptorists since 1854; Church destroyed in 1944; 1971 New building leader.
1868	59	trier	St. Matthias Basilica	34	Expanded in 1960; Prospectus is partly stored in the abbey.
1869		Catfish catch			I / P	23	1884 2. Man Dalstein & Haerpfer; 1978 Restoration Haerpfer & Ermann (27 Reg.)
1869		Merzig				20th
1872		trier	Hospital Church			17th	Not received.
1874		Woman loudspeakers	Catholic collegiate church			23	Collegiate / monastery church burned down in 1895; transferred to the new Trinity Church; 1925 to Geislautern (Völklingen); there 1953 new building in Sebald
1874		Monnerich , Luxembourg			I.	11	1923 remodeling Fischer, Cruchten; only received prospectus today.
1875		trier	St. Paulus and St. Irminen Church				Not received.
1884	76	Nennig	St. Martin		I / P	12
1892		Losnich	St. Vitus		II / P	14th

literature

• The cathedral organ in Trier . In: Gregorius-Blatt . tape 20 , 1895, p. 18th f .
• Herbert Bruges: Brief history of the organs in the Lengerich church . In: The Breidenfeld-Klais organ in the Ev. Lengerich town church . Verlag Marius Jacoby, Münster 2003, p. 13-18 .
• Andreas Lenk: Organ classicism on the organ. Heinrich Wilhelm Breidenfeld's organs in St. Paulin in Trier and in Dieblich on the Moselle . In: Organ - journal for the organ . tape 7 , no. 3 , 2004, p. 36-42 .
• Ulrich Reinke: The prospectus of the Breidenfeld organ from 1835/36 . In: The Breidenfeld-Klais organ in the Ev. Lengerich town church . Verlag Marius Jacoby, Münster 2003, p. 47-54 .
• Ulrich Reinke: Why the Lengerich city church organ got its present-day appearance. Considerations for the restoration of the Breidenfeld organ . In: The Breidenfeld-Klais organ in the Ev. Lengerich town church . Verlag Marius Jacoby, Münster 2003, p. 43-45 .
• Friedrich W. Riedel and Hans-Wolfgang Theobald : The organ [from St. Paulin in Trier] . In: Regine Dölling (Ed.): The Catholic parish church of St. Paulin in Trier . Worms 2004, p. 176-192 .
• Winfried Schlepphorst: The Breidenfeld-Klais organ in the Protestant town church in Lengerich . In: Ars Organi . tape 52 , 2004, p. 167-173 .
• Winfried Schlepphorst: An excellent organ - "unfortunately in the senseless cabinet style" . In: The Breidenfeld-Klais organ in the Ev. Lengerich town church . Verlag Marius Jacoby, Münster 2003, p. 19-38 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lord Mayor Trier, death file no. 324/1875
2. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer, Matthias Thömmes: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 40 ). tape 4 : Koblenz and Trier administrative districts, Altenkirchen and Neuwied districts . Schott, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-7957-1342-0 , p. 44 .
3. ↑ http://www.trierer-orgelpunkt.de/trierorgel2.htm ; Organs in Trier Cathedral, part 2
4. ↑ organ Atlas OWL: Organs in OWL
5. ↑ The Breidenfeld-Orgel Nennig on Organindex.de
6. ↑ The Breidenfeld Organ Lösnich on Organindex.de

Web links

• Detailed portrait of Heinrich Wilhelm Breidenfeld