Erasmus Bielfeldt

Erasmus Bielfeldt (* 1682 probably in Stade ; † October 19, 1753 in Hoya ) was a German organ builder of the 18th century.

Life

Bielfeldt was probably born in Stade . He may have been a student of Arp Schnitger , but this has not yet been proven. His dispositions are similar to Schnitger's, but do not show any return positive .

It is proven that he worked for Matthias Dropa in Lüneburg from 1707 to 1715, where he married Anna Eliesabeth Rohde (n) on June 14, 1707, with whom he had three daughters and three sons. Johann Matthias Bielfeldt, baptized in Lüneburg in 1712, later also worked as an organ builder.

After Lüneburg, Erasmus Bielfeldt worked in Celle and Bremen . During this time he built new organs for churches in Müden (1720), Ahlden (1722/1723) and Bremen- Horn (1728/1729). Around 1730 he returned to Stade and settled there. From 1736/1736 his residence was again in Bremen, where he often repaired organs and built a new building for St. Remberti (1738), among other things .

Bielfeldt mainly worked in the organ landscape between the Elbe and Weser . His best-known work is probably the organ of St. Wilhadi in Stade, which he completed in 1736. He built a total of at least eight organs, including the one for the St. Willehadi Church in Osterholz-Scharmbeck (1734).

He died in 1753 in the city of Hoya , whose death register records him as 70 years old.

Works

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1720	Tired	St. Petri				New building by Bielfeldt (?)
1722/1723	Ahlden	St. Johannis				New building
1728/1729	Bremen - Horn	Holy cross				New building
1730-1731	Oldendorf	St. Martin's Church		II / P	13	1981 New building by Rudolf Janke behind the preserved prospectus
1728-1733	Bremervörde	St. Liborius Church		II / P	25th	Prospectus received in modified form; the design shows the state of 1728; Pipework by Gebr. Hillebrand (1962–1963); today III / P / 32
1731-1735	Stade	St. Wilhadi		III / P	40	Bielfeldt's new building; largely preserved
1731-1734 / 45	Scharmbeck	St. Willehadi		II / P	23	Bielfeldt's new building; largely preserved → organ from St. Willehadi (Osterholz-Scharmbeck)
1736	Bremen - Blumenthal	reformed Church				New building
1738	Bremen	St. Remberti				New building
1752/1753	Hoya	St. Martin				Extension by a return positive

From 1728 to 1748 he carried out repairs on various organs in Bremen .

Commemoration

The Bielfeldtweg in the Hahle district of Stader was named after him.

literature

• Elfriede Bachmann: The organs of the Protestant church in Bremervörde . In: Stader Yearbook 1982 (Stader Archive NF 72) . 1982, p. 81-101 .
• Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 , p. 117-118 .
• The organ builder Erasmus Bielfeldt . In: Peter Golon (Ed.): The Erasmus Bielfeldt Organ in St. Wilhadi zu Stade. Festschrift for the inauguration of the organ restored by Jürgen Ahrend on May 27, 1990 . Verlag Friedrich Schaumburg, Stade 1990, p. 79-81 .
• Harald Vogel : On the history of the Scharmbeck organ . In: Festschrift on the occasion of the restoration of the Bielfeldt organ in the St. Willehadi Church in Osterholz-Scharmbeck . Church council St. Willehadi, Osterholz-Scharmbeck 1972, p. 4-7 .

• Peter Golon: Bielfeldt, Erasmus. In: Heike Schlichting (Ed.): CVs between the Elbe and Weser. A biographical lexicon , Vol. III, Landscape Association of the Former Duchies of Bremen and Verden, Stade 2018, ISBN 978-3-931879-73-0 , pp. 37-38.

Web links

Commons : Erasmus Bielfeldt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of the Wilhadi organ