Elztal Museum
The Elztalmuseum is a museum in Waldkirch . It shows on four levels and 1700 m² exhibits on the city's history, including the Waldkirch church treasure and the Baden Revolution , but also on cultural-historical topics such as Waldkirch organ building and the craft of gemstone cutters .
building
In the years 1753-1755, the provost of was Canons monastery of St. Margarethen to plans by the Villinger architect Ludwig Oswald built. The middle gable of the baroque three-storey palace building is adorned with a statue of Margaret by Josef Anton Hops , who also came from Villingen. The stucco ceilings were designed by Franz Anton Vogel from Freiburg im Breisgau .
After the abolition of the monastery in the course of secularization, the building was used as a cotton weaving mill from 1815 to 1873, after which it served as a hotel for some time. Among the guests in 1880 were Kaiser Wilhelm I and his family. Between 1891 and 1977 the building housed various schools. This was followed by restoration and in 1985 the Elztal Museum was opened in it.
Waldkirch organs and mechanical musical instruments
Music machines built in Waldkirch , for example by the companies Bruder , Gebrüder Weber and Ruth & Sohn , form the core of the collections. They are played regularly as part of guided tours and concerts; Some of the large organs are also equipped with coin-operated machines , so that visitors can gain an impression of the tonal possibilities of the mechanical instruments even outside the guided tours. Waldkirch is still a center of organ building today , Waldkirch organ building still exists in the village today in the three companies: Stützle, Fleck and Brommer, which still mainly build church organs .
Special exhibits
In the 19th century, figure machines were particularly popular. The Elztalmuseum has, among other things, a Chinese nightingale , as described in Hans Christian Andersen 's fairy tale of the same name.
The Welte-Mignon is a reproduction piano that was first presented to the public in 1905. It reproduces the playing of piano virtuosos recorded on “artist roles”. Concerts with this piano are occasionally given in the museum's baroque hall, with pianists like Claude Debussy and Richard Strauss playing .
The Weber brothers' automatic chapel with five moving figures has been in the Elztal Museum since 1993. This instrument was bought around 1900 by the landlord of the “Sonne” inn in Bleibach . In 1909 this establishment had to file for bankruptcy; At that time the value of the organ was estimated to be almost as high as the entire rest of the inn's inventory. The organ remained in place after the Riegeler Brewery took over the inn and in 1917, including the inn, came into the possession of the Gütermann company, which owned the "Sonne" until 1961. Then she sold the inn, but kept the automatic chapel, which was now set up in the "Adler" inn in Gutach, where it remained until 1992. Gütermann then decided to have the instrument restored, around 95 percent of which had been preserved from the original, and to loan it to the Elztal Museum, where it has been on display since 1996. The automatic capelle is one of the first instruments of its kind to be controlled by perforated cardboard cards. The technical structure and the disposition largely correspond to the old roller-controlled instruments. The five musicians on the stage of the orchestrion are also controlled by the cardboard notes. Before each piece, the conductor knocks three times with the conductor's baton on his desk; the bassist grabs the strings with his left hand and makes his bow strokes with his right hand; there is also a violinist, a trumpeter and a drummer. Originally a revolver bolt was also part of the tonal repertoire of the instrument, which has 182 labial and reed pipes. It has 54 pitches and has five claves for percussion, eight claves for register switching and seven claves for figure controls. There are ten tones in the bass area, twelve in the accompaniment area and 32 in the melody area. The percussion mechanism can imitate triangle, large and small drums and knocking; the previously mentioned revolver bolt function is no longer functional.
The Sonnenwirt had once bought entertainment and salon music for his Automatic Chapel from Weber, including the overture to the comic opera Zampa by Hérold, a battle potpourri, I have to go to the Städtele and I pray to the power of love . Until 1959, the music artist Gustav Bruder provided arrangements for the Automatic Chapel in Bleibach, including marches, concert waltzes and potpourris from works by Franz Lehár and Emmerich Kálmán as well as arrangements of Carl Binder's overture to Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and Amilcare Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours .
The museum also has an 89 Gavioli organ built in Waldkirch around 1907. Gavioli & Cie opened a branch in Waldkirch in 1896, which, however, soon had to be closed again due to economic difficulties in the parent company. Only a few instruments were produced in Waldkirch under director Richard Bruder, which, as far as they are in good condition, are now valued more highly than organs from the parent company. The instrument in the Elztalmuseum has the Gavioli scale 89/4. The music for the instrument with the French facade was provided by the Alfred Bruder company, for which Gustav Bruder worked. The organ was bought in 1922 by the Munich showman company Mathieu for their Zeppelin carousel. After the Second World War, Kitty Mathieu, who climbed the steep wall, traveled with the organ until 1960. After the latter had given up its business, the Gavioli organ passed into the possession of Duncan Price Senior, after whose death it returned from England to Waldkirch and was housed in the Elztal Museum. It is probably the only almost completely preserved Gavioli original from the Waldkircher workshop.
Since 2011 the Elztalmuseum eV association has supported the house financially and with voluntary commitment.
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the building ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Evelyn Flögel and Henning Ballmann, booklet for the CD Gebr. Webers Automatic Capelle , Salon Series, part no. 5, Elztalmuseum Waldkirch 1996
- ↑ Gavioli in Waldkirch ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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; 235 kB)
Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 27.1 ″ N , 7 ° 57 ′ 46 ″ E