Dirk Lohman

Lohman organ in Hage (1783)

Dirk Lohman (* July 14, 1730 ; † July 4, 1814 in Groningen ) was an East Frisian organ builder in Emden , who carried out repairs on numerous organs in East Frisia and built an important new building in Hage (1776–1783).

Life

Dirk Lohman was born the son of Nicolaus Lohman, a carpenter in Neufunnixsiel . He learned carpentry and organ building and probably apprenticed to the related organ builder Cornelius Geerds Wallies from Leer . At first he worked with Wallies. In 1754 he moved to Emden, married Reenste Gerdes Greving and ran his own organ workshop from there. From 1786 he was also active in the province of Groningen and moved to Groningen in 1788, where he died in 1814. His family business continued in Groningen well into the 19th century. His son Nicolaus Anthony Lohman (1766-1835) learned organ building from his father and in 1801 took over the management of the business. His brother Gerhard Diederich (1764–1823) also worked in his father's workshop until this year. In the third generation, the grandson Diederik Hendrik Lohmnn (1797–1856) continued the family business. Other sons of Nicolaus Anthony were Hinderk Berends (1799-1854) and Gerhard Willem (1802-1856), who also worked in the workshop. Nicolaas Anthonie Gerhardus Lohman (1834–1871), son of Hinderk Berends, initially took over the company in the fourth generation, but in 1863 bought the workshop of Herman Eberhard Freytag (1796–1869).

plant

Wallies began building a small organ in the French Reformed Church in Emden in 1755. After Wallies's death, it was completed by Lohman in 1756. Lohman Wallies' organ remodeling in the Gasthauskirche in Emden was also completed in 1758. Until 1788 he was almost exclusively engaged in repairs in the East Frisian region. Only in Hage was he commissioned with a new building and initially worked for a day's wage , from 1782 for a fixed price per register. Lohman took over most of the pipe inventory in the main work from the previous organ of the 17th century from an unknown organ builder. He also carried out repairs and conversions in the Netherlands, usually with the help of his sons.

List of works

The size of the instruments is indicated in the fifth column by the number of manuals and the number of sounding registers in the sixth column. A capital “P” stands for an independent pedal , a lowercase “p” for an attached pedal.

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1756	Emden	French Reformed Church		I / p	7th	New building by Wallies, completed by Lohman after his death. In 1897 the organ was donated to the Evangelical Reformed parish of Holßel and thus escaped destruction in the Second World War , to which all other Emden town organs fell victim. 1992–1995 exemplary restoration by the Hillebrand brothers
1757	Emden	Inn church		II / p	16	New building completed by Wallies after his death by Lohman; not received
1763-1764	Weener	Evangelical Reformed Church		II / p	22nd	Repair of the → organ (today II / P / 29)
1765 / 1778-1785	Westerhusen	Westerhuser Church		I / p	7th	Repair of the → organ
1767	north	Ludgerikirche		III / P	46	Repair of the → organ
1769-1770	Uttum	Uttum Church		I.	9	Repair of the → Uttum
1769-1770	Visquard	Visquard Church				repair
1772	Pilsum	Kreuzkirche		II / p	16	Repair of the → organ
1773 / 1786-1787	Greetsiel	Greetsieler Church		I / p	9	repair
1776	Rysum	Rysumer Church		I.	7th	Repair of the → organ
1776-1783	Hage	St. Ansgari Church		II / P	22nd	The only new building. Various renovations in the 19th and 20th centuries led to the loss of original parts, which were reconstructed in 1979 and 1987 by the Alfred Führer company according to strict monument preservation standards. Largely preserved.
1787	Midwolda (NL)	Hervormde Kerk		II / p	15th	Repair and redesign of the organ by Andreas de Mare the Elder J. (1657); Organ largely preserved, but not Lohman's register
1787-1791	Stedum (NL)	Bartholomeuskerk		II / p	15th	together with Gerhard Diederich Lohman removal of the Rückpositiv and extension of the organ by an unknown organ builder (around 1680); received rebuilt

literature

• Walter Kaufmann : The organs of East Frisia . East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 1968.
• Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 .
• Harald Vogel, Reinhard Ruge, Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: Organ landscape Ostfriesland . 2nd Edition. Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1997, ISBN 3-928327-19-4 .

See also

• List of organ builders
• List of historical organs in East Frisia

Web links

• Organ in Hage
• Reinhard Ruge (NOMINE eV): Hage, St. Ansgari - organ by Dirk Lohman (1776–1783)
• Organ in Holßel with photo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Organ in Midwolda (PDF file; 751 kB), accessed on January 8, 2019.
2. ^ Organ in Stedum , accessed on January 8, 2019.