Eduard Hirnschrodt

Former company premises of the Hirnschrodt organ building company in Regensburg. On the left voicing workshop (today garages), behind that machine room, above that planning office. In the background assembly hall. Right residential building, behind (not visible) pipe workshop.

Eduard Hirnschrodt (born March 29, 1906 in Regensburg ; † December 29, 1990 there ) was a German organ builder.

Life

Eduard Hirnschrodt was born on March 29, 1906 as the son of Eduard Hirnschrodt sen. born in Regensburg. He completed an organ builder training in his father's company. After passing the master craftsman's examination in Passau and the death of his father, he took over the company in 1933, which was located in Regensburg- Stadtamhof at Protzenweiher 13. Its operation was continued in 1974/1975 by the organ building company Georg Jann . Eduard Hirnschrodt died on December 19, 1990.

meaning

In the first phase of his professional career, Eduard Hirnschrodt built organs with a pneumatic or electric cone chest and a tone that tended to be more fundamental. After the Second World War, Karl Strecker, a former employee of the Schuke company, joined the Hirnschrodt company. He initially worked as a voicer , and then also as a designer due to his more up-to-date knowledge. As a result, the company turned increasingly to the construction of organs with mechanical sliding chests , which was very much in keeping with the taste of the time.

The first work with this neo-baroque concept was the organ in St. Matthäus in Regensburg . Hirnschrodt's largest opus (68 / IV / P, from 1959) is in St. Emmeram in Regensburg. This instrument was the largest organ in the Diocese of Regensburg for decades before the Waldsassen organ system was realized. The character of his instruments is structurally and tonally very different.

Between 1932 and 1974, around 120 plants were built (including new buildings, extensions and conversions). Eduard Hirnschrodt's work reflects the upheavals in organ building between the pre- and post-war period . It is particularly important for the Upper Palatinate and northern Lower Bavaria .

List of works (selection)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1932	Weidenthal	St. Michael		I / P	9	first own work, not preserved. Currently manner (17 / II / P) from 1993
1935	Thatwang	Assumption of the Virgin		I / P	8th	pneumatic cone store
1938	Wernberg	St. Anna		II / P	11	In the typical case by Andreas Weiß ; 1954 conversion and expansion to 13 registers.
1939	Pfreimd	Franciscan monastery		II / P	11	1834 New Rococo case by Xaver Ehrlich (Bärnau). 1897 new building Steinmeyer (12 / II / P), pneumatic cone store; 1939 conversion of Hirnschrodt (13 / II / P), 1975 conversion of Jann (13 / II / P)
1942	Wolfskofen	Assumption Day		II / P	16	receive
1949	Barbing	St. Martin		II / P	14th	2001 Reconstruction by Johannes Schädler: reduction in size behind the high altar → organ
1948	Mitterfels	St. George		II / P	12	pneumatic cone store
1950	regensburg	Dom		III / P	39	Extension of the Binder organ from 1905 (25 / II / P), hidden behind the high altar. Replaced in 1989 by a new building by Mathis (43 / III / P) at the same location with a visible positive on the right on the choir wall, in 2009 positive removed again in the course of the redesign
1951	Vilsbiburg	Pilgrimage Church of Maria Hilf		II / P	21st	in the historical case from 1870, not preserved, new building in 2007 by Armin Ziegltrum (II / P, 23)
1952	Donaustauf	St. Michael		II / P	17th	pneumatic cone chests, preserved → organ
1952	Guteneck	St. Katharina (castle chapel)		II / P	6th	Received in the case from Wilhelm Hepp in 1820 .
1953	regensburg	Collegiate Church of St. Johann		II / P	15th	in baroque case around 1730, not preserved, rebuilt in 2004 by Orgelbau Eisenbarth (II / P, 25)
1954	Frauenberg, Gde. Brunn	Virgin Mary's birth		II / P	16	not received. 2004 Armin Ziegltrum's new building.
1954	Hail city	St. Vitus, (old Catholic parish church)		II / P	14th
1954	Timber Harlanding	St. Catherine		I / P	5
1954	Jachenhausen	St. Oswald		II / P	14th	pneumatic cone store
1954	regensburg	St. Matthew		II / P	16	first larger organ work with purely mechanical action. Original received. → organ
1956	regensburg	Church music school (today the University for Catholic Church Music and Music Education Regensburg )		II / P	11	once practice organ IX. Rebuilt several times. With new keyboards and a new key system.
1957	Neustadt an der Waldnaab	St. Felix		II / P	15th	preserved → organ
1957	Speicherersdorf	Protestant church		II / P	13	receive
1959	regensburg	St. John		II / P	11	The work has been preserved, with a new case and brochure (see picture) in the Protestant church in Bad Abbach .
1959	regensburg	St. Emmeram		IV / P	68	Housing by Christoph Egedacher 1699. 1900 New building by Binder & Siemann (30 / II / P), new building by Hirnschrodt. → organ
1960	Landshut	St. Peter and Paul		II / P	26th
1960	Pettendorf	St. Margaretha		II / P	14th	Preserved, cone chest with electro-pneumatic action.
1961	Wiesau	St. Michael		III / P	28	receive
1961	Dietfurt an der Altmühl	St. Johannes Ev. (Franciscan)		II / P	22nd	Electropneumatic cone store, bill-return positive
1962	Neutraubling	Luther Church		II / P	12	→ Organ on mechanical slider chests
1962	Boars	Evangelical Christ Church		II / P	15th	receive
1963	Griesstetten	Pilgrimage Church of St. Martin		II / P	11	mechanical slider chests
1962	Mockersdorf	St. Michael		II / P	14th	electric cone chests, preserved in the case from Funtsch (1759).
1963	Oberalteich	St. Peter and Paul		III / P	48	in the Weiss prospectus from 1801: 1911 Steinmeyer (II / P / 32), extension from Hirnschrodt to 48 / III / P.
1963	Oberbibrach	St. John Bapt. and Ev.		II / P	12	mechanical grinding chests, neo-baroque prospectus from Wolf / Bayreuth 1903, preserved.
1966	regensburg	St. Albertus Magnus		III / P	35	pneumatic cone chests → organ
1966	Trisching	Annunciation		II / P	15th	receive
1967	Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg	St. Mary		II / P	19th	receive
1967	regensburg	Heart Mary		II / P	26th	Preserved, after construction only executed with one manual, in 1973 extended to two manuals, to electropneumatic cone chests, in 1991 extended by 2 stops.
1967	regensburg	St. Conrad		III / P	36	almost complete use of the previous organ op. 501 by Willibald Siemann due to church expansion . → organ
1967	Hemlock (Upper Palatinate)	ev. church		II / P	9	receive
1969	Grossberg	St. Heinrich		I / P	5	preserved, on mechanical sliding drawer
1969	Neukirchen near the Holy Blood	Mariae birth		III / P	30th	Case from 1647/1762 → organ
1969	regensburg	Mennonite Church		I / P	5
1969	Neutraubling	St. Michael		II / P	23	1999 Reconstruction and re-intonation by Johannes Schädler
1970	raft	ev. Church of St. Johannes Baptist , former Simultaneum		II / P	22nd	preserved, mechanical slide box, electr. Register action
1971	Hail city	Holy Trinity		II / P	12
1971	Kirchberg b. Regenstauf	Assumption Day		II / P	16	Opus 102, preserved, mechanical slide chests with electro-pneumatic stop action
1972	gain	St. Thomas		II / P	12
1972	regensburg	Pedagogical College		II / P	8th	receive
1972	regensburg	Central cemetery		I / P	5	receive
1973	Landshut	Maria Loreto (Franciscan)		III / P	27	receive
1974	Raft	St. John the Baptist		II / P	23	electro-pneumatic cone store
1974	regensburg	Collegiate church to the old chapel		III / P	32	last work, not preserved; since 2006 Pope Benedict organ in the case of Andreas Weiß 1791.

literature

• Michael Bernhard: Organ database Bavaria. Version 5, 2009.
• Georg Brenninger: Organs in Old Bavaria. GeraNova Bruckmann, 1982, ISBN 3-7654-1859-5 .
• Eberhard Kraus: Historic organs in the Upper Palatinate. Schnell & Steiner 1990, ISBN 3-7954-0387-1
• Collegiate chapter of Our Lady of the Old Chapel Regensburg: The Pope Benedict Organ. Regensburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-7954-1885-4 .
• Regensburg Cathedral Chapter: Te Deum Laudamus - The Regensburg Cathedral Organ. Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7954-2328-5 .
• Works archive with correspondence from the Hirnschrodt company

Web links

• Josef Eduard Hirnschrodt in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

Commons : Hirnschrodt organs  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On-site inspection by organ cleaners