Christian Erdmann Kindten

Christian Erdmann Kindten (born June 26, 1752 in Schlemmin ; † November 14, 1803 in Stralsund ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Christian Kindten was trained as a carpenter in Stralsund. He later went to Copenhagen , where he took drawing lessons in a Sunday school. In Saint Petersburg , where he stayed for five years, he learned to build organs and string instruments . Maybe there were the Swedish organ builder Olof Schwan or from Halle an der Saale originating Heinrich Andreas Contius his teachers.

Then he returned to Swedish Pomerania . He repaired organs that are no longer in existence in Nehringen , Richtenberg and Bergen on Rügen . His main works are the organ in the Sankt-Jacobs-Kirche in Gingst from 1790, as well as, after he settled in Stralsund in 1790, the organ of the St.-Michaels-Kirche in Sagard , built in 1796 .

The planned construction of an organ for the St. Thomas Church in Tribsees could no longer be carried out due to Kindten's illness and death.

literature

• Dietrich W. Prost : Life report of a Stralsund organ builder . In: Greifswald-Stralsund yearbook . 11/1977, pp. 87-95.
• Kindten, Christian Erdmann . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 225.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Organ landscape Pomerania ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Historical organs in Western Pomerania

Web links

• Literature about Christian Erdmann Kindten in the state bibliography MV
• Kindten organ in Gingst (with biographical information; PDF file)
• Kindten organ in Sagard (PDF file)