Christian Gottfried Herbrig

Christian Gottfried Herbrig (born April 5, 1772 in Taubenheim an der Spree ; † August 24, 1850 in Altstadt near Stolpen ) was a German organ builder . His youngest son Wilhelm Leberecht Herbrig also worked as an organ builder.

Herbrig altar in St. Michaelis in the village of Wehlen

Life

Christian Gottfried Herbrig comes from a linen weaver family in Taubenheim. It is not known where he learned how to build an organ, there are only guesses. He was first mentioned as an organ builder in 1808 when Gottfried Silbermann was repairing the Crostau organ . From 1801 to 1807 he was the church father in the village.

The family moved to (Hinter-) Ottendorf near Sebnitz around 1816 . This is where the first major renovations were made to the organs in Ulbersdorf and Lichtenhain, as well as new buildings for Schmiedefeld and Sohland on the Spree . Around 1828 the family moved to Altstadt near Stolpen. Further new buildings were built for Großdrebnitz , Dorf Wehlen (here in St. Michaelis, father and son also built the altar) and Burkau .

The next residence and workshop was in Langenwolmsdorf near Stolpen, from around 1837. This was probably the most successful time of the father and son Herbrig workshop with the new organs for Eschdorf near Pirna , Pohla near Bischofswerda, Hohnstein , Putzkau , Großharthau (?), Schönfeld near Dresden, Markersbach near Gottleuba and Schmölln near Bischofswerda. Since the 1840s, his son WL Herbrig was apparently responsible for the new buildings in Langenwolmsdorf, Papstdorf , Stürza and Helmsdorf . The three last organ works by the son were written for Seeligstadt (1855), Altstadt (1856), now part of Stolpen, and Kötzschenbroda (1861).

Herbrig and his son Wilhelm Leberecht coined a characteristic "organ landscape". In addition to new constructions, the Herbrigs have carried out tuning work, repairs and alterations to many organs in Lusatia and Saxon Switzerland .

List of works

Continued on the list of works by Wilhelm Leberecht Herbrig

The catalog raisonné only includes the Herbrigs' completely independent new organs. Major modifications to third-party instruments that gave them a Herbrig character were not counted. The directory may remain incomplete.

year	opus	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1821	1	Schmiedefeld (district of Bautzen)	St. Michaelis Church		I / P	13	Renovated in 1889, 1970 and 2008 by Eule, Bautzen .
1824	2	Sohland on the Spree	Ev.-Luth. church	no picture available	II / P	22nd	1899 Replacement of the Herbrig organ by a new one by H. Eule, Bautzen
1828	3	Großdrebnitz (district of Bischofswerda)	Martinskirche		I / P	11	In 1938 thorough renovation by Eule Bautzen, 1955 and 2006 further inspections of the company mentioned
1831	4th	Village of Wehlen	St. Michaelis Church		II / P	18th	1877 repair by Carl Eduard Jehmlich , Dresden; 1886 installation of three new box bellows by Bruno Kircheis, Dresden; 2007 restoration by Ekkehard Groß, Waditz near Bautzen
1834	5	Burkau (district of Bautzen)	Ev.-Luth. church	no picture available	I / P	not known	1898 Replacement of the Herbrig organ by a new one by H. Eule, Bautzen, as part of a major church renovation
1838	6th	Eschdorf (district of Dresden)	St. Barbara Church		I / P	11	The drawings for decorating the organ were made by Gottfried Semper, the two angels from the Ernst Rietschel School in Dresden. 1886 Dismantling, restoration and re-installation of the organ by Julius Jahn, Dresden , during the renovation of the church. 1952 Refurbishment of the factory with the addition of the prospect pipes that have been missing since 1917 by Reinhard Schmeisser , Rochlitz. 1987 and 2014 restoration by Johannes Lindner, Radebeul
1839	7th	Pohla (district of Bautzen)	Ev.-Luth. Church, since 1984 "Maria am Berge"		I / P	10	1894 Expansion of the work by a second manual and three registers by Ernst Eduard Berger, Bischofswerda, later Dresden: new wind chest as a cone chest, new keyboards, changed mechanics, manual coupler. 1964 tonal redesign by the company Eule, Bautzen. In the 1990s overhaul by Groß and Soldan, Waditz near Bautzen.
1838-40	8th	Hohnstein (Saxon Switzerland)	City church Hohnstein		II / P	23	1964 Expansion of the organ in order to reconstruct the original baroque design of a George Bähr church. The wind chests and 11 registers of the Herbrig organ came to the town church in Radeberg and were used for a new building by the Eule company, Bautzen.
1841	9	Schönfeld (district of Dresden)	Ev.-Luth. church	no picture available	II / P	20th	1894 cleaning and tuning by the Jehmlich brothers, Dresden. 1904 Replacement of the Herbrig organ by a new one by Johannes Jahn , Dresden.
1842	10	Markersbach	Ev.-Luth. church		I / P	12	1937 General overhaul by Joh. Brenneiß, Dresden. Extensive renovation by Leopold Nitschmann, Pirna-Copitz, in the 1960s. The historical instrument now needs an urgent renovation.
1843	11	Schmölln (district of Bautzen)	Ev.-Luth. church	no picture available	I / P	not known	The year of the organ's consecration (1843) was announced by Dr. Wolfram Hackel communicated.

literature

• Fritz Oehme: Handbook about older, newer and newest organ works in the Kingdom of Saxony. Suppl. And Register. Ed. Wolfram Hackel. Peters, Leipzig 1978.
• Wolfram Hackel: Acta Organologica , Volume 14, Appendix 3, Merseburger 1980; personal communications .
• Klaus Mann: On the trail of the Herbrigs and their organs. Stolpner Hefte, booklet 12. Ed. Kulturwerkstatt Stolpen e. V., September 2006.
• Klaus Mann: The organ builder Herbrig and the three faces of their organs. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 55th Vol. 1/2009 pp. 21–27.

Web links

Commons : Christian Gottfried Herbrig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Herbrig organs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Organ by Gottfried Silbermann in the church in Crostau ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on silbermann.org, accessed on June 26, 2010