Christian Heinrich Wolfsteller

Christian Heinrich (Hinrich) Wolfsteller (* 1830 in Hamburg ; † 1897 in Altona ) was a Hamburg organ builder .

Life

He was the son of Johann Gottlieb Wolfsteller (1794–1867) from Wittenberg , organ builder in Hamburg from 1819, and grandson of the Hamburg organ builder Johann Paul Geycke . Christian Hinrich Wolfsteller worked in his father's company as an organ builder from 1859. After the death of his father, he took over the "Hamburger Orgelbauanstalt" at Brook No. 67.

After Wolfsteller's death , Paul Rother (1871–1958), who came from Schweidnitz ( Lower Silesia ), took over the Wolfeller organ building company in 1899 and ran it until 1950.

Works (selection)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1854	Pokrent	Pokrent village church		I / p	7th	Donated by the von Behr family in Renzow , transferred to Pokrent in 1869; Restored in 1991 by the Wegscheider organ workshop (Dresden)
1869	Hamburg	Saint Catherine		IV / P	58	modification
1870	Billwerder	St. Nikolai (Hamburg-Billwerder)				Remodeling and renovation
1870-1872	Eppendorf	St. John's Church				New building
Before 1885	Rothenburgsort	St. Thomas Church				New building
1885	Ochsenwerder	St. Pancras		II / P	30th	modernization
1886	Hamburg-Allermöhe	Trinity Church				Reconstruction of the organ by Gottfried Fritzsche (1637); Burned in 1900
1888	Hamburg old town	Scholars' school of the Johanneum , Speersort				New building
1894	Hamburg-Altona-Nord	Helenenkapelle des Helenenstift		II / P	16	Later Christophorus Church, today "Church of Silence". Probably the last new building from Wolfsteller's Hamburg organ building establishment; only the prospectus received, after several renovations the original condition was restored in 2000.

literature

• Günther Grundmann (ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg: Bergedorf ... , 1953, page 234
• Leopold Iwan Cirsovius , Reinhard Jaehn (ed.): Organ dispositions from Schleswig-Holstein. 194 Dispositions and Descriptions, 1868-1895 , Merseburger Verlag, 1986, page 157
• Rudolf Reuter: Bibliography of the organ. Literature on the history of the organ up to 1968 , 1973, page 253
• Journal of the Association for Hamburg History , Ed .: Association for Hamburg History, 1939, page 369
• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders 1891-1991. Festschrift with a lexical directory of German organ building workshops, published by: Bund Deutscher Orgelbaumeister (BDO) Munich, Orgelbau-Fachverlag Rensch, Lauffen 1991
• Heinrich Schmahl: The organ built by the master organ builder Ch. H. Wolfsteller in Hamburg in the St. Thomas Church at Billwärder Ausschlag in Hamburg; the former organ of the St. Petri Church in Hamburg, rebuilt by JG Wolfsteller after the great fire in Hamburg, preserved and described as a monument to the solid organ building by a Hamburg organ builder from the first half of the 19th century, the Hamburg Church , publisher Nolte, Hamburg 1885
• Heinrich Schmahl: The rebuilding, renovation and enlargement of the organ in the church in Billwärder an der Bille, in 1870, by the organ builder Ch. H. Wolfsteller from Hamburg , Verlag Grüning, 1870

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Günther Elgnowski: Spiritual Music in Old Hamburg , 1961, page 68
2. ^ Hamburg address book from 1847
3. ^ Günther Grundmann (ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg: Bergedorf ... , 1953, page 234
4. ↑ Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas . Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 , p. 70.
5. ↑ Gustav Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, p. 73.
6. ↑ Günter Seggermann, Alexander Steinhilber, Hans-Jürgen Wulf: The organs in Hamburg . Ludwig, Kiel 2019, ISBN 978-3-86935-366-1 , pp. 41 .
7. ↑ johanneum-hamburg.de Organ