Christian Friedrich Voelkner
Christian Friedrich Voelkner (rarely CF Völkner ; * 1831 in Dünnow , Western Pomerania ; † July 31, 1905 in Dünnow ) was a German organ builder in Western Pomerania.
Live and act
Christian Friedrich Voelkner came from a family that had worked as a teacher, organist and sexton in Dünnow since 1734. His father was a farmer and community leader. He let his son take part in his extra-professional carpentry work and tuning pianos, thus awakening his interest in music and instruments. The boy tried to build an organ at a young age, the playing and technique of which he had observed with his grandfather, the schoolmaster and organist Christian Voelkner. He later apprenticed as an organ builder to Carl August Buchholz in Berlin (before 1857).
In 1859 Voelkner founded his own organ building workshop in Dünnow. His first organ - a small work without a pedal - was installed in the church in Arnshagen , a town near his home village . In the workshop of CF Voelkner Dünnow i. Pom. he initially employed three organ builders. His carefully crafted beautiful instruments soon made him known beyond the borders of Pomerania. He succeeded in expanding the company from the smallest of beginnings into a larger company. In 1876 he had a new factory building built and in 1877 he bought the first machines. In 1888, Opus 100 was celebrated with new constructions and renovations in his organ building establishment.
Voelkner initially built slider drawer organs, as well as sometimes his own mechanical or pneumatically controlled hanging valve drawer . He was known as a real tinkerer, from whom inventions such as the Voelknersche blower or the cantor (a melody coupling) came.
Around 1900, organ builder Christian Friedrich Voelkner put his life's work in the hands of his son Paul Voelkner . In 1903 he saw that organs from his workshop had been built or rebuilt in two hundred churches as far as Russia and East Africa (Opus 200). His death as a result of a stroke saved him from having to watch how his factory was destroyed in flames six months later due to arson.
Organs (selection)
The organ building company CF Voelkner Dünnow i. Pom. created around 170 new buildings and conversions by 1900, mainly in Western Pomerania, rarely in Western Pomerania and Brandenburg. A catalog raisonné is not known. The organs had up to 20 stops. For some there is only a company sign with no further information on the creation. Organs from 1900 are listed by Paul Voelkner . Instruments that are no longer available are in italics .
| year | place | building | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| around 1862 | Arnshagen (Charnowo) | church | I. | first own organ, started earlier, without a pedal, was received in 1946, today? | ||
| 1869 | Saleske (Zaleskie) | church | ||||
| 1870 (?) | Old Järshagen (Stary Jarosław) | church | I / P | 6th | Attribution, very poor condition | |
| 1874 | Free (Wrzeście) | church | ||||
| 1874 | Rützenhagen (Rusinowo) | Ev. Church, today Church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary |
|
I / P | 10 | received, in poor condition |
| 1874-1875 | Buetow (Bytow) | St. Elisabeth Church, today St. Catherine and John the Baptist | II / P | 12 | replaced Schulze organ from 1854, destroyed in 1945 | |
| 1875 | Gross Küdde (Gwda Wielka) | Church, today the Church of Bishop Stanisław | II / P | 11 | receive | |
| 1878 | Dünnow (Duninowo) | Church , now Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa | II / P | 12 | received, in Voelkner's hometown | |
| 1879 | Wendisch Silkow (Żelkowo) | church | ||||
| around 1879? | Alt Kugelwitz (Kowalewice) | Ev. Church, now Church of the Heart of Jesus |
|
I / P | 9 | Preserved, in poor condition, similar design as in Dünnow, hence a temporal assumption, unusual company sign CF Völkner, Dünnow |
| around 1880 | Steglin (Szczeglino) | Ev. Church, now Church of Our Lady of the Scapular | I / P | 9 | received, in poor condition | |
| 1888 | Stolpmünde (Ustka) | Church of St. Johannis and Nicolai, today Church of the Redeemer | II / P | 20? | in new church, today II / P, 20 | |
| 1893 | Stolpe , Western Pomerania | Wartislaw Memorial Church | receive | |||
| 1893 | Glasow (Głazów), Neumark | church | II / P | 10 | ||
| 1893 | Old Pahlow (Pałowo) | Ev. Church, now Church of the Assumption |
|
II / P | 14th | Accepted on January 4, 1894, pneumatic action, substantial contribution from Paul Voelkner |
| 1894 | Mönkebude , Western Pomerania | church | I / P | 7 (9) | originally in Liebenberg in Brandenburg, implemented in 1984 | |
| around 1895 | Brunn (Bezrzecze) | Church, now Church of Mary Queen of the Church | I / P | 4th | Preserved, Opus 148 on company sign, pneumatic index action, e.g. Currently restoration | |
| 1896 | Koszalin (Koszalin) | Catholic St. Joseph Church | II / P | 13 | 1930s conversion by W. Sauer in the style of the organ movement, 2003 restoration by Mollin | |
| 1899 | Rathsdamnitz (Dębnica Kaszubska) | church | ||||
| around 1900 | Lebehnke (Stara Łubianka) | Church, today Church of the Exaltation of the Cross | II / P | 10 | Opus 166, received | |
| ? | Kölpin (Kiełpino, Borne) | Church, today St. Casimir | I / P | 10 | very bad condition | |
| ? | Grupenhagen (Krupy) | Ev. Church , now Church of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn |
|
II / P | 11 | receive |
| ? | Schlawin (Słowino) | Ev. Church, now Church of Exaltation of the Cross |
|
I / P | 10 | received in very poor condition |
| ? | Gross Brüskow (Bruskowo Wielkie) | church | II / P | 10 | Restored in 2008 | |
| ? | Zackenzin (Ciekocino) | Church, today St. Peter's Church | I / P | 10 | receive | |
| ? | Pollnow (Polanów) | Holy cross | II / P | 19th | receive | |
| ? | Soltnitz (Żółtnica) | Church, now Church of Our Lady Queen of Poland | II / P | 9 | received, bad condition | |
| ? | Old Krakow (Stary Kraków) | church |
literature
- Hans Boldt: Dünnow as the East Pomeranian home of German church organ building . In: Ostpommersche Heimat. 1937, no.10. PDF
- Hans Boldt: Church organ architecture in Dünnow . In: Our Pommerland . 1930, pp. 57-59.
- Karl-Heinz Pagel: The district of Stolp in Pomerania. Evidence of his German past . Lübeck 1989.
- Hans Schreiber: From the history of the parish village of Dünnow in the Stolp district (Pomerania) and its surroundings . Manuscript from 1950. Edited by Hans-Martin Schreiber, Wiesbaden 1996.
- Christian Friedrich Voelkner . In: Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg and the surrounding area including Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Pape Verlag, Berlin. P. 583f.
Web links
- Christian Friedrich Voelkner with photos (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Years without given evidence are from Wikipedia articles, and probably from architectural and art monuments .
- ↑ Stary Jarosław, Kościół Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego MusicamSacram, with disposition (Polish)
- ↑ Rusinowo, kościół parafialny Narodzenia NMP MusicamSacram, with history and disposition.
- ↑ Bytów organy.pro, with history and disposition (Polish).
- ^ Gwda Wielka, Kościół św. Stanisława Biskupa Musicam Sacram, with disposition.
- ↑ Duninowo, Kościół Matki Boskiej Częstochowskiej Musicam Sacram, with detailed history, photos and disposition (Polish)
- ↑ Duninowo, Kościół organy.pro, Wirtualne Centrum Organowe, organ with MRP (Polish).
- ↑ Kowalewice, kościół Najświętego Serca Pana Jezusa MusicamSacram, with disposition.
- ^ Szczeglino, Kościół Matki Bożej Szkaplerznej MusicamSacram, with disposition.
- ↑ Szczeligno organy.pro, with disposition.
- ↑ Ustka Kościół Najświetszego Zbawiciela MusicamSacram, with current disposition (Polish)
- ↑ Walter Dominick: Solpmünder Chronik, written in 1936 , quoted in Organists and Organ in Stolp (Słupsk) (Polish)
- ^ Lexicon of North German Organ Builders , p. 584
- ↑ Newspaper for Western Pomerania from [beginning of January] 1894, quoted in Hans Boldt: Dünnow as the East Pomeranian home of German church organ building . In: Ostpommersche Heimat. 1937, No. 10. PDF , no articles in Musicamsacram and Wirtualne Centrum Organowe
- ^ Lexicon of North German Organ Builders , p. 584
- ↑ Orgel organy.pro, with disposition (Polish)
- ↑ Stara Łubianka, Church of the Exaltation of the Cross Musicam Sacram, with disposition (Polish)
- ↑ Stara Łubianka, kościół Podwyszenia Krzyża Wirtualne Centrum Organowe
- ↑ organ organy.pro, with disposition.
- ↑ Krupy, Church of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn MusicamSacram, with disposition (Polish)
- ↑ Słowino, Kościół Świętego Podwyszenia Krzyża MusicamSacram, with disposition.
- ↑ Bruskowo Wielkie organy.pro, with disposition.
- ↑ Ciekocino organy.pro, with disposition.
- ↑ organ organy.pro ,, with disposition.
- ↑ Żółtnica, Kościół Matki Krolowej Polski MusicamSacram, with disposition (Polish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Voelkner, Christian Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | CF Voelkner (company name); CF Völkner (rare) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organ builder in Western Pomerania |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dünnow , Western Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1905 |
| Place of death | Dünnow |