Caspar Lehmann

Caspar Lehmann , also known as Kaspar Lochmann , was a German organ builder from the Baroque period from Suhl , Thuringia .

Caspar Lehmann or Lochmann and his cousin Johann Heinrich Mann ran an organ building company in Suhl in the middle of the 17th century that was recognized in southern Thuringia . Further life data are currently unknown.

Instruments in the Georgs Church in Steinbacher Grund, Amt Hallenberg ( Herrschaft Schmalkalden ), and in the Michaeliskirche in Ohrdruf and the Michaeliskirche in Rohr (Thuringia) are documented . About the organ built by Lehmann and Lochmann in 1661 in the Michaelis Church in Ohrdruf it is reported that the costs totaled 285 thaler. However, since the old instrument was traded in by the Suhl organ builders, the organ could be produced for 160 Thaler. There is also an expert report from 1679 by the organ builder Johann Konrad Weißhaupt (1657–1727) from Seebergen about the organ by Caspar Lehmann in the Michaeliskirche Ohrdruf.

In 1666, Caspar Lehmann commissioned an organ for the fortified church of Michaelis in Rohr (Thuringia) with two bellows for a total of 196 guilders. On Sunday, March 17th, 1667, the organ consecration took place with the organist Heinrich Conrad Clemen from Springstille .

In addition, Caspar Lehmann renewed the organ in Geschwenda in 1673 , which had been built by Sebastian Wätzschele from Seebergen in 1647.

Hans Heinrich Lortzing, organ builder in Ohrdruf since 1675 and the organ builder Brothers Sterzing are considered to be Caspar Lehmann's pupils .

Web links

• History of Geschwenda
• Chronicle of the Michaeliskirche in Rohr
• Peter Heckert: Church in Steinbacher Grund - Amt Hallenberg, 1990 (PDF) (accessed December 14, 2017)