Emil Hammer organ building

Emil Hammer organ building
legal form	one-man business
founding	1838
Seat	Arnum , Germany
Number of employees	varies, at the top up to 120
Branch	Musical instrument making

Emil Hammer Orgelbau was a German organ building company that had its headquarters in the Hemminger district of Arnum from 1966 .

history

The predecessor was founded in 1838 by Philipp Furtwängler . After his father's business went out of business, Philipps's second son, Pius Furtwängler (* July 14, 1841, † January 16, 1910 in Hanover) founded together with the organ builder Adolf Hammer (* April 6, 1854 in Herzberg am Harz ; † 5. March 1921 in Hanover) 1883 the organ building company "P. Furtwängler & Hammer ”. The workshop was relocated from Elze to Hanover. Pius Furtwängler left the company in 1892. Since 1910, Adolf Hammer has also been allowed to bear the title of master organ builder . He had built the no longer preserved organ for the Brunswick Cathedral . After Adolf Hammer's death, his son Walter Hammer (* July 7, 1901; †?) Took over the company with 120 employees. Due to the global economic crisis , the organ building company got into difficulties.

The nephew of Adolf Hammers, Emil Hammer (born February 22, 1878 in Geestemünde ; † December 11, 1958 in Hanover), took over the business of his uncle in 1937, in which he had been an authorized signatory since 1904, as the sole owner. Since then it has been called "Emil Hammer Orgelbau". After Emil's death, his grandson Christian Eickhoff (born December 23, 1935 in Shanghai ) took over the company with around 20 employees. In 1966, the organ building company moved into a new workshop in Arnum with initially 25 employees, later there were over 40. In the course of Christian Eickhoff's succession, he sold the company with six employees on July 1, 2007 to the "Orgelbaugesellschaft Reichenstein", which now operates the company initially continued as a branch under the new name. In 2009 the branch was relocated to a smaller workshop in Hiddestorf . In 2011 the company was dissolved due to the opening of insolvency proceedings. The successor company E. Hammer Orgelbau has existed since May 2011 with its headquarters in Hiddestorf.

After the establishment of the company at the end of the 19th century, organ works were built with mechanical and later with pneumatic cone chests. From 1893 works with tube pneumatics and pocket drawers were made, in 1907 the first organ with electro-pneumatic action was completed. During this creative period, the largest work of the Hammer company was created in the city ​​hall of Hanover , which at that time was one of the largest German workshops for late romantic organ building.

From 1921 to 1931, Hammer manufactured church and concert organs in collaboration with the Walcker and Sauer companies, as well as Oskalyd cinema organs .

A new phase of organ historical importance began through the collaboration with Christhard Mahrenholz and the associated follow-up of the organ movement . Disposition and scaling were now aligned with their ideals. The organ in St. Marien zu Göttingen is considered the first new building of this kind .

In this context, the company began again in 1932 with the construction of grinding shops (Leipzig, Reconciliation Church ) and from 1942 with the construction of mechanical sound mechanisms (Lüneburg, St. Michaelis).

As early as the mid-1970s, the then owner of the company, Christian Eickhoff, recognized the historical and musical value of the romantic organ works that were once created and advocated their preservation among experts. Several of the instruments have been restored by the company . Historical organs in Poland have been restored in collaboration with Jan Jargon .

Most recently, only restoration and maintenance work was carried out, and new business stagnated. By the time it was sold, the company, including its predecessors, had built over 2,200 organ works worldwide, including around 700 since 1950, many of these organs in the new churches built after the end of World War II.

Remarks

1. ↑ The “Orgelbaugesellschaft Reichenstein” was a merger of the workshops Gebr. Oberlinger Orgelbau and “Emil Hammer Orgelbau”.

Works (selection)

This list contains selected new organs from the workshops, as well as some organs that were destroyed or replaced by new organs from other organ builders.

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. Italicization indicates that the organ in question is no longer preserved or that the brochure is from one of the two workshops.

P. Furtwängler & Hammer

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Comments Description, disposition
1894	Lahde	Evangelical Church Lahde		II / P	23	Op. 317 → Organ The prospect pipes were renewed in 1994. All other pipes are original.
1895	Krummasel	Christ Church		II / P	12	Op. 337 The organ still has its original prospect pipes, restored in 2011.
1896	Hallendorf (Salzgitter)	Protestant church		II / P	13	Op. 340
1897	Berlin-Wilmersdorf	Auenkirche		II / P	41	Op. 359 → organ
1897	Lehmke	St. Dionys		II / P	14th	Op. 366 Change of disposition of a register approx. 1970, restoration to the original condition in 2010 by the organ building company Reichenstein, Hemmingen and Windesheim → Organ
1898	Bolzum	St. Joseph				Source monument topography
1899	Luneburg	St. Nicolai		III / P	48	Op. 396 → organ
1900	Power sum	St. Nicholas				New organ, restored in 2015 by the organ building workshop Florian Fay (Braunschweig)
1900	Plate	St. Mary		II / P	15th	New organ
1903	Braunschweig	St. Joseph		II / P	24	later rebuilt → organ restoration
1904	Norten-Hardenberg	St. Martin		II / P	24	→ organ
1905	Braunschweig	St. Johannis		III / P	38	completely overhauled by Eule in 2005
around 1905	Plauen	Heart of jesus		II / P	28	Original received, restored
1906	Woodlice	Luther Church		II / P	24	Op. 561 → Main article : Organs of the Luther Church (Asseln)
1907	Rüper , Peine district	Jerusalem Church		II / P	8th	→ organ
1907	Schladen	St. Mary		II / P	15th	Op. 584
1908	Schöningen	Mary Help of Christians		II / P	20th	Op. 621
1908	Blankenhain	St. Severi		II / P	27	→ Organ , new building in Schulze - prospectus from 1782, completely overhauled by the company Eule in 2008
1908	Kleinwittenberg	Christ Church
1909	Eschershausen	St. Martin Church		II / P	30th	→ organ
1910	Kaarßen	St. Mary's Church
1911	Weberstedt	St. Ulricii		II / P	19th	Restored in 2012/2013
1912	Hildesheim	St. Godehard's Basilica		III / P	43 + 2	→ Organ , extensively modified
1913	Salzwedel	Marienkirche		III / P	64	behind the prospectus by Joachim Wagner → Organ
1914	Hanover	City Hall		IV / P	124	For a detailed description see; 1942 loss due to war
1914	Eltze	Protestant church		II / P	17th	original received
1914	Nordhausen	St. Petri		III / P	45	The church and organ are destroyed in the bombing of Nordhausen in World War II
1915	Wustrow (Wendland)	St. Laurence		II / P	19th	Restored in 1992 by master organ builder Franz Rietzsch, Hiddestorf, recorded in 2008 for Hauptwerk (virtual pipe organ) .
1916	Verden	Dom		III / P	51 + 3
1921/22	Berlin-Wilmersdorf	Auenkirche		III / P	62	Opus 890 new building using parts of the organ from 1897 (Opus 359) → organ
1925-1926	Goettingen	St. Mary		III / P	48	→ Main article : Organ of the parish church of St. Marien (Göttingen)
1928	Koenigsberg	Dom		III / P	68	1944 loss due to war
1929	Ritterhude	St. John		II / P	16	Restored in 1999 by master organ builder Franz Rietzsch, Hiddestorf.
1931	Luneburg	St. Michaelis		III / P	48	New building behind the historic housing by Matthias Dropa (1708). Description and disposition
1932	Leipzig	Church of Reconciliation		III / P	33

Emil Hammer organ building

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1937	Bielefeld	Neustädter Marienkirche		IV / P	74	Canceled in 1964
1938	Bockwitz	Nikolaikirche
1942	Luneburg	St. Michaelis , crypt		II / P	11	behind the prospectus by Furtwängler & Hammer (1899) and including some stops from the previous organ
1956	Wienhausen	St. Marien Church (Wienhausen)		II / P	23	Completed by 1971
1958	Gutersloh	Johanneskirche		II / P	13
1963	Hermannsburg	St. Peter-Paul		III / P	34
1963	Torment	St. Jakobi		IV / P	50	General overhaul 2011 by OBM Christoph Grefe, Ilsede
1964	Oberhausen	Luise Albertz Hall		IV / P	68	Canceled in 2012
1965	Scheidt (Saarbrücken)	Evangelical Church Scheidt		I / P	13
1965	Marburg	University Church of Marburg		III / P	34	Description and disposition
1965	Hanover	Kreuzkirche		III / P	52	Description and disposition
1968	Soltau	Johanniskirche		III / P	40
1970	Sendai , Japan	Miyagi Gakuin Chapel		II / P	30th
1971	Nevada (Missouri)	Cottey collage		II / P	17th
1972	Beedenbostel	Martinskirche		II / P	26th	New building in historic housing from 1855 by Philipp Furtwängler .
1974	Loxstedt	St. John the Baptist		II / P	13	12 stops by Hammer, 1 stop ( Nasard 2 2/3 ') by Lobback
1974	Gütersloh- Avenwedde	Christ Church
1977	Plettenberg	St. Johannes dT		III / P	22nd
1982	Hanover	St. Elisabeth		III / P	36
1987	Hanover	St. Godehard		III / P	39
1993	Maniowy, Poland	Św. Mikołaja		II / P	29
1996	Lübeck	Bugenhagen Church		II / P	24
2002	Hamersleben monastery	St. Pancras		III / P	41	New building in historical housing

Patents

• A. Hammer: Device for the automatic regulation of blowers driven by power machines. 1895
• DE 388.209. Walcker-Luedtke-Hammer Oskalyd organ building. Device for increasing the sound effect of keyboard instruments, organs and. the like from January 19, 1924.
• DE 403,152. Walcker-Luedtke-Hammer Oskalyd organ building. Keyboard instrument, organ or the like (GB 218,252, CH 108,096, DK 34,686) from September 10, 1924.

literature

• Riemann Musiklexikon , p. 565f.
• Christhard Mahrenholz (eds.), Wilhelm Furtwängler, Fritz Lehmann (collaborators): The new organ in the St. Marienkirche in Göttingen , 2nd, improved edition, Kassel: Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1931.
• E. Bush, Richard Kassel (Ed.): The Organ. To Encyclopedia. Routledge-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 0-415-94174-1 .
• Christian Eickhoff: 150 years of Emil Hammer organ building. Festschrift, self-published.
• Uwe Pape , Georg Schloetmann: 175 years of Emil Hammer organ building. Two thousand organs from seven generations. Pape, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-921140-91-8 .
• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Report on the 1976 symposium. Early romantic organ building in Lower Saxony. Pape-Verlag, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-921140-15-3 .
• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Directory of the organ works supplied by P. Furtwängler & Hammer. Berlin 1906; Reprint: Pape-Verlag, Berlin 1984.
• Uwe Pape: P. Furtwängler & Hammer. An organ building company from Elze in Hanover. In: Förderverein für die Stadtgeschichte von Springe e. V. (Ed.): Springer yearbook 2014 for the city and the old district of Springe . Jump 2014, pages 129-134.
• Christian Eickhoff: My life as an organ builder. 1957 - 2007 , Hemmingen: Christian Eickhoff & Erika Müller, 2014.
• Christian Eickhoff: From the Weser to the Yangtze Kiang. My family history , 2nd improved edition, [without location, Hemmingen]: 2015.

Web links

Commons : Emil Hammer Orgelbau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about P. Furtwängler & Hammer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Emil Hammer organ building in the catalog of the German National Library
• Organ in Verden Cathedral
• Website of the successor company Orgelbau E. Hammer

Discography

1. ↑ The Romantic Organ in Verden Cathedral; 2009; TB, DDD, 1993; EAN 0000085961098
2. ↑ Late Romanticism - Early Modernism; 2004; 78:08; Ambience;
3. ↑ The Furtwängler & Hammer organ of the Sankt Johannes-Kirche Ritterhude; 1999; Bcc.//Blue.Calvin.Classics (Bella Musica)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 .
2. ^ Orgelbaugesellschaft Reichenstein mbH. Mainz District Court File number: HRB 41847. Joint register portal of the federal states, accessed on October 5, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, Hanover region, northern and eastern part, Volume 13.2, edited by Christiane Segers-Glocke, edited by Carolin Krumm, CW Niemeyer Buchverlage GmbH, Hameln, 2005, ISBN 3-8271-8255-7 .
4. ^ The large concert organ in the city hall in Hanover. In: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau . Vol .: 37, Leipzig 1916-1917. (accessed December 27, 2009).
5. ↑ Device for the automatic control of blowers driven by power machines. In: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau. Volume 16, Leipzig 1895-96, p. 17. (accessed December 27, 2009).