Daniel Raßmann

Daniel Raßmann (* 1790 in Ulm ; † 1864 in Möttau ) was a German organ builder who worked in Hesse in the 19th century and founded a family business.

Life

Raßmann came from a pastor's family from Asslar . He learned the trade of organ building from Christian Weil in Neuwied and then worked as a journeyman with Johann Conrad Bürgy . From 1813 he was on the rolling that led him to Switzerland and possibly to Pomerania. After a further time with Christian Ernst Schöler , he started his own business in Weilmünster in 1820. In 1824 he moved his workshop to Möttau. Raßmann created over 40 new organs.

His son Gustav Raßmann (1833–1906) took over the workshop in 1860 and used the mechanical cone drawer in Burg Hohenstein (1885), Adolfseck (1897) and Steckenroth (1899) . More than 20 new organs can be traced back to him. Gustav Raßmann sold the company to his journeyman August Hardt (1861–1946), who took over the workshop in 1896. The contract stipulated that it had to be run under the name Raßmann until Gustav Raßmann's death. Daniel Raßmann's other two sons also became organ builders. Theodor Christian Raßmann (1822–1866) also started his own organ builder in Möttau in 1859. His son Wilhelm Raßmann (1861–1942) emigrated to America in 1881, but returned to his homeland after the end of the First World War . Alfred Hardt (1900–1960) was the son of August Hardt and took over the business from 1930. In the third generation, Günter Hardt (* 1933) and in the fourth generation Uwe Hardt (* 1964) took over the Hardt organ building .

plant

Daniel Raßmann built one- or two-manual organs, which had a maximum of two dozen stops , primarily for village churches . The instruments were usually on the side and had an independent pedal even with a modest disposition (exception: Oberlauken). They are committed to the style of classicism and are characterized by the fact that registers of the same pitch are designed in a tonally very differentiated manner, as for example in the Eschbach organ. The spindle flute 4 ' made of conical tin pipes (like the flageolet 2 ′, for example ) is considered a "key fossil for D. Rassmann".

List of works (selection)

In the fifth column, the Roman numeral indicates the number of manuals , a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal , a lower-case "p" indicates an attached pedal. The Arabic number indicates the number of sounding registers. The last column provides information on the state of preservation or special features.

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1825	Neesbach	Ev. church		I / P	7 (8)	Largely preserved.
1828	Hennethal	Ev. church		I / P	10	Largely preserved
1830	Dauborn	Evangelical Church Dauborn		I / P	12	Largely preserved
1833	Oberlauken	Ev. Church (mountain church)		I / p	6th	Raßmann's smallest organ, cost 600 florins, including a fully functional calcareous step originally preserved; Restored in 2011 by Orgelbau Mebold .
1837	Hermannstein	Paulskirche		I / P	13	largely preserved
1837	Bend	Evangelical Church Bicken		I / P	12	Largely preserved; expanded over time; today II / P 18
1839/40	Reichenbach	Ev. church		I / P	13	receive; Restorations: 1917 (Hardt) and 1969 (G. Woehl).
1840	Blessenbach	Ev. church		I / P	9 (10)	One loop is empty and could originally have contained a trumpet 8 ′.
1843	Steinfischbach	Ev. church		II / P	23	Almost unchanged
1844	Obertiefenbach	St. Aegidius		I / P	14th	Replaced in the course of the new church construction 1884–86
1845	Eschbach	Ev. church		II / P	24 (originally 23)	The largest surviving organ by D. Rassmann, side wall organ with mechanical slide chests; 1847 renovation (D. Rassmann), 1880 new construction of two registers (G. Rassmann), 1917 handing over of the prospect pipes (later replaced by zinc pipes), 1935 new wind turbine (Förster & Nicolaus - Lich), 1947/1959 conversion (Hardt -Möttau), 1971 thorough cleaning, 1995/96 reconstruction based on the somewhat smaller “sister organ” in Steinfischbach (Mebold-Siegen).
1845	Weilburg	Catholic Church		I / P	10	Today in the Catholic Church in Weilmünster
1846	Elkerhausen	Ev. church		I / P	9
1848	Munster (Hesse)	Ev. church		I / P	9	1962 overhauled and rescheduled by Hardt
1850-1851	Maibach	Ev. church		I / P	9	Much preserved
1851	Berg-Ewersbach	Ev. church		I / P	10	largely preserved (in the Ederbringhausen church in Hessenpark).
1852	Selters	Ev. church		I / P	12	Largely preserved
1857-1858	Littfeld	Catholic Church		I / P	11	Receive; Transferred to Grifte in 2009
1858	Walsdorf (Idstein)	Evangelical Christ Church		I / P	13	Receive.
1858	Riedelbach (Weilrod)	Ev. church		I / P	11	Receive.

literature

• Hans Martin Balz , Reinhardt Menger: Old organs in Hessen and Nassau (=  publication of the Society of Organ Friends . Volume 72 ). 2nd Edition. Merseburger, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-87537-169-0 .
• Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 7.1 . Volume 7.1 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 1: A-K . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 .
• Franz Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.2 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 2: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1370-6 .
• Board of Ev. Eschbach parish (ed.): 150 years of Ev. Eschbach Church. Festschrift for the anniversary . Eschbach 1996 (article on the organ by Dr. Martin Balz, pp. 51–68).

See also

• List of organs in Hessen

Recordings / sound carriers

• Carsten Lenz: Historical organs with music of their time (Taunus) . Lenz-Musik (works by AG Anthes, JM Dreyer, JG Frech, XL Hartig, JC Herrmann, AF Hesse, C. Karow, A. Müller, P. Müller, CH Rinck on the organs in Dauborn, Kirberg and Neesbach)

Web links

• Hardt Orgelbau: The history of organ building in Möttau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Hardt Orgelbau: The history of organ building in Möttau , as seen on March 13, 2011.
2. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Vol. 2, Part 1: A – K , p. 36.
3. ↑ See Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Vol. 2, part 1: A – K , p. 179 f.
4. ↑ Photo: http://hardt-orgelbau.de/Orgelbau%20Hardt/Geschichte%20Werkstatt.htm (viewed: July 2, 2017); see. on this Franz Bösken, sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (Volume 2 LZ), p. 642; actually 7 registers, drone is divided into bass and treble.
5. ^ Franz Bösken, sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (Volume 2 LZ, p. 723).
6. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Vol. 2, Part 1: A – K , p. 87.
7. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Vol. 2, Part 2: L-Z , p. 693.
8. ↑ Board of the Ev. Eschbach parish (ed.): 150 years of Ev. Eschbach Church. Anniversary publication , 1996, pp. 51–68 (Dr. Martin Balz); D. Rassmann himself described the Eschbacher organ as "the crown of the organs in the whole area" (ibid. P. 51) and Dr. Curt Utz (Wiesbaden, 1949) as "musically and liturgically valuable instrument with a wonderful sound" (ibid. P. 61). The renovation work concerned v. a. the reeds and the keyboards; During the restoration in 1995/96, prospect pipes and reeds were made, new manual keyboards with the old jaws and a new pedal keyboard were used, and a new fan was installed (cf. ibid. pp. 60–61).
9. ↑ Cf. also Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine , Volume 2, Part 1: A – K , p. 179 f., In which the organ with its very successful differentiation of the equal-footed voices (swell possibility) as a “monument to the Romanticism ”(W. Metzler).
10. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Vol. 2, Part 2: L-Z , p. 627.
11. ↑ Photo: http://hardt-orgelbau.de/Orgelbau%20Hardt/Geschichte%20Werkstatt.htm (viewed: July 2, 2017); see. on this Franz Bösken, sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (Volume 2 AK), p. 182f.
12. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Vol. 2, Part 2: L-Z , pp. 751 f.
13. ↑ Community letter Grifte-Holzhausen ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2015 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. (PDF file; 6.72 MB), viewed March 13, 2011. 
14. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Vol. 2, Part 1: A – K , p. 790.
15. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Vol. 2, part 2: LZ , p. 727.