Christoph Ludwig Goll

Christoph Ludwig Goll (born March 29, 1824 in Bissingen an der Teck , † April 26, 1897 in Kirchheim unter Teck ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Christoph Ludwig Goll was the fourth of twelve children of the farmer and parish clerk Jakob Friedrich Goll (1797–1846) and his wife Anna Maria born. Weber (1798–1870) born. The family belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Württemberg. After finishing school he learned the organ building trade from 1835 to 1841 with Johann Viktor Gruol (the younger) and worked with Johann Heinrich Schäfer in Heilbronn and Carl Gottlieb Weigle in Stuttgart . From 1845 he worked again at Gruol & Blessing and was involved in the company from 1850 to 1854. In 1854 he started his own business and in 1856 moved the workshop to Kirchheim unter Teck. Around 1856 he married Johanne Christiane Vier (born 1827).

Within a few years, Christoph Ludwig Goll was able to receive medals for his organs at various trade exhibitions and thus became known. At the beginning of 1872 he received the silver medal for an organ which he had presented at the Swabian trade exhibition in Ulm in the summer of 1871. He received another silver medal at the Stuttgart State Exhibition in 1881.

In 1890 his son, Gustav Adolf Goll (1858–1902), joined the company (GLGoll & Sohn) as an employee and partner. Around 1896, Christoph Ludwig Goll appointed his colleague Friedrich Schäfer (1861–1920) from Göppingen as managing director. After the death of Gustav Adolf Goll, Friedrich Schäfer continued to run the company as GL Goll & Sohn, owner: F. Schäfer.

Up to the beginning of the First World War, over 170 organs, v. a. for southern Germany. Of these, around 15% are still preserved today.

His younger brother Friedrich Goll learned the trade of organ building from 1854 to 1858 in his workshop in Kirchheim unter Teck.

Works (selection)

• Organ in Oberderdingen (built 1855)
• Organ in Weilersteusslingen (built 1856)
• Organ in Wildberg (Black Forest) (built 1859)
• Organ in Roßwälden near Eberbach / Fils (built 1860)
• Organ in Neckartenzlingen (built 1863)
• Organ in Schlaitdorf (built 1865)
• Organ in the Stephanskirche Mähringen (Kusterdingen) (built 1868)
• Organ in the church in Altburg (Calw) (built 1869)
• Organ in the Marienkirche in Kohlstetten (Engstingen) (built 1878)
• Organ in the Marienkirche Langenalb (built in 1862; complete restoration in 2019).
• Organ in Staig (built 1870)
• Organ in the Evangelical Church in Fürfeld ( Bad Rappenau ) (built in 1873).
• Organ in Metzingen (built 1874)
• Organ in the Ulm synagogue (built 1874/75)
• Organ in the St. Stephen's Church in Poltringen
• Organ in Zell unter Aichelberg (built 1880)
• Organ in Bad Wildbad , cath. Stadtpfarrkirche St. Bonifatius (Bad Wildbad) (built 1881, awarded at the Württemberg trade exhibition, Stuttgart 1881)
• Organ in Lonsingen (built in 1883; complete restoration by Wolfgang J. Braun 2019/2020).
• Organ in Tübingen, Castle Church (built 1890)
• Organ in Jessingen near Kirchheim unter Teck (built 1890)
• Organ in Bernloch (built 1895)
• Organ in Nabern (built 1898)
• Organ in Mötzingen (built in 1900)
• Organ in Altensteig (built in 1903)
• Organ in Esslingen , teachers' seminar
• Organ in Balingen (built 1912; renovation by Wolfgang J. Braun 1997).
• Organ in Ötlingen (Kirchheim unter Teck) (built 1913).

literature

• Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 , p. 118 .
• Bernhard Hörler, Goll Organ Builder, Lucerne. A Piece of European Organ History, Vol. 1, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of the Orgelbau Goll company, Lucerne
2. ↑ eb: A particularly beautiful instrument in terms of sound. Church music district cantor Stefan Lust gave a concert on the historic organ in the Kohlstetter Marienkirche. In: Reutlinger Generalanzeiger , July 16, 2008