Elias Hößler

Elias Hößler (* 7 July 1663 in Crimmitschau / Saxony; † 13. June 1746 in Sulzbach ) was a native of Saxony, in the Upper Palatinate and Franconia active organ builder .

In 1690 he began an apprenticeship as an organ builder with Andreas Haß in Greiz in Vogtland and moved to Hersbruck . On October 21, 1704 he became a citizen of Lauf near Nuremberg . He preferred to work in the Nuremberg area and in the western and central Upper Palatinate . In 1744 he retired to the hospital in Sulzbach.

Proven works

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1693/94	Altensittenbach	St. Thomas				not preserved: Prospectus 1777 from Bodechtel, 1935 new building Steinmeyer op.1602 (II / P / 11)
1694	Ottensoos	St. Vitus		I / P	6th	1903 new building Johannes Strebel op.103 (II / P / 13)
1698	Edelsfeld	St. Stephan		I / P	6th	Prospectus received, 1900 new building Steinmeyer op.684 (I / P / 9), 2019 renovation (Kilbert, Regensburg)
1699	Velden	St. Mary		I / P	8th	Prospectus received, 1846 reconstruction Bittner, 1863 reconstruction Steinmeyer, 1982 new building Hey
1701	Offenhausen	St. Nicholas				not preserved, Steinmeyer built a neo-Romanesque prospectus in 1866, including a work by Steinmeyer from 1982 (II / P / 17)
1701	Sulzbach-Rosenberg	St. Mary		II / P	22nd	Brochure partially preserved, 2000 new Rieger building (III / P / 44) in the style of Cavaillé-Coll
1710	On the mountain	Salesian Church of St. Augustine (School Church)				Positive? Main organ 1760 by Funtsch
1714	Michelfeld	St. Johann Baptist Monastery Church				Main organ, replaced in 1750/63 by a new one by Funtsch , the case of which has been preserved
1716	Neukirchen b. Sulzbach-Rosenberg					not received
1721	On the mountain	Franciscan monastery (today city theater)				Replaced in 1751 by the new building from Brandenstein (II / P / 16), which came to Seligenporten in 1803, the prospectus has been preserved there
1723	Sulzbuerg	St. Michael (Castle Church)				not preserved, May 2013 Werk 1905 by Strebel (II / P / 12) with free pipe prospectus
1725	Alfeld	St. Bartholomew		I / P	7th	Prospectus received, various modifications, most recently Maderer renovation in 1991
1726	St. Helena zu Großengsee near Simmelsdorf			I / P	8th	Prospectus received, factory 1889 Stebel ((I / P / 9) with mechanical cone drawer
1726/27	Happurg	St. Mary and George		I / P	11	Prospectus received, 1904 new building Strebel op.112 (II / P / 14)
1729	Pommelsbrunn	St. Lorenz		I / P	10	Prospectus received, 1912 new building Steinmeyer op. 1123 (II / P / 21)
1729	Vilseck	St. Aegidia		I / P	11	Prospectus received, 1979 new Steinmeyer building (II / P / 27), 2015 renovation after a fire in the church and sooting
1732	Sulzbach-Rosenberg	Pilgrimage Church of St. Anna		I / P	8th	Prospectus received, 1981 new building Guido Nenninger (II / P / 20)
1734	Eschenau (Eckental)	St. Bartholomew		I / P	10	Prospectus received, 1964 new building Ott (II / P / 18)
1735	Frohnberg near Hahnbach	Pilgrimage Church of Our Lady		I / P	9	Prospectus received, 1897 new building for Binder and Siemann (I / P / 8)
1736	Weißenohe	Monastery Church of St. Boniface		II / P	15th	Prospectus received, 1997 new building Karl Schuke op.506 (II / P / 23)
1737	Hersbruck	St. Elisabeth Hospital Church		I / P	8th	Factory preserved, 1895 Bittner conversions, 1962 Erich Bauer renovations
1738	Hersbruck	City Church		II / P	17th	Prospectus received, 1975 new building Steinmeyer op. 2305 (II / P / 31)
1740	Betzenstein			I / P	10	Prospectus received, 1976 new Ekkehard Simon building (II / P / 25)
1742	Michelfeld	St. Leonhard				1803 to Haag / Hopfenohe, burned there in 1848. 1988 Sandtner building (I / P / 12) in a Baroque style housing
1743	Neunhof	St. Johannis		I / P	8th	1875 parts of the prospectus to Beerbach (see picture, central tower), therein work 1994 by Heintz
1743	Sulzbach-Rosenberg	St. Elisabeth Hospital Church		I / P	9	Work preserved, Deininger and Renner restored in 1971
1744	Etzelwang	St. Nicholas		I / P	9	Work preserved, 1984 restoration by Otto Hoffmann

literature

• Michael Bernhard: Organ database Bavaria. Version 5, 2009.
• Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Organ monuments in Middle Franconia. Schneider / Rentsch, Lauffen 2001, ISBN 3-921848-08-3 .
• History of the organs in St. Marien. In: Catholic parish of St. Marien and the city of Sulzbach-Rosenberg: 750 years of the parish of St. Marien. Sulzbach-Rosenberg 2002, ISBN 3-9804497-9-3 , pp. 135-150.
• Eberhard Kraus: Historic organs in the Upper Palatinate. Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7954-0387-1 .
• Jörg Schindler: Elias Hößler, life and work. Technical work in the advanced music course, Amberg 1981.