Ernst Palandt

Ernst Palandt (born March 7, 1907 in Bochum , † July 6, 1979 in Hildesheim ) was a German organ builder .

Between 1933 and 1969, Palandt worked as an organ builder in Halberstadt and Hildesheim. He initially entered into a partnership with Wilhelm Sohnle and traded under the name E. Palandt & Sohnle KG. In 1952 the two separated, and Palandt continued to work alone as the owner of the Hildesheim organ building workshop. In 1970, long-time employee Dieter Kollibay took over the company.

His estate is of particular importance because before the destruction of Hildesheim , Palandt carried out intensive historical research on the organs he restored and cared for and left extracts from files. He has also built up an extensive photo archive. Even if Palandt's work on historical organs no longer corresponds to the current state of the restoring organ building, he has retained essential substance and preserved many organs.

Accordingly, Palandt was stylistically committed to the organ building tradition of the North German Baroque .

Catalog of works (selection)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1939	Halberstadt	St. John's Church		III / P	37	behind historical housing by Elias (1605); Destroyed in 1945
1940-1944	Aschersleben	St. Stephen's Church		III / P	51	Extension of the organ by Ernst Röver (1907) behind the prospectus by Edmund Schulze (1855)
1953	Hildesheim	St. Lamberti		III / P	29	technical new building in historical baroque case using historical pipe material, main work by Johann Conrad Müller (1765), Rückpositiv from the beginning of the 18th century; Expansion of a breastwork prepared
1958	Braunschweig	Brothers Church , choir organ		I / P	9	in a baroque case, today integrated as a Rückpositiv of the Steinmann organ, can be played separately
1958	Braunschweig	Holy Spirit Church		II / P	25th	The disposition goes back to the organ of the St. Mauritius Church (Hildesheim) .
1965	Bartolfelde	St. Bartholdi Church		II / P	13
1965	Katlenburg-Lindau	Ev. church		II / P	14th

Publications

• Hildesheim organ chronicle 1962. 1st issue. A picture as an activity report on the 25 or 140 years of existence of the Hildesheim organ building workshop, Hildesheim 1962.
• Hildesheim organ chronicle 1969. 2nd issue. Organ works, organ builders and organists of Hildesheimer Neustadt, Hildesheim 1969.
• Hildesheim organ chronicle 1973. 3rd issue. History of the cathedral organs, Hildesheim 1973.
• Hildesheim organ chronicle 1975. 4th issue. The history of the organ works in St. Andreas zu Hildesheim, Hildesheim 1975.
• The history of the organ works in St. Godehardi. In: Alt-Hildesheim 48 (1977), yearbook for the city and monastery of Hildesheim, issue 1, 1919 - issue 62, 1991.
• With co-author Franz Philipp List: The Hildesheimer Manuscript: inventory of all organ dispositions in the beginning of the d. 19th century, Lax Verlag, 1976.
• The German art of organ building: a cultural-historical workshop study, Hildesheim 1934.
• Organographia historica Cellensis; Hildesheim 1932.

further:

• Johann Hermann Biermann, Organographia Hildesiensis specialis, Hildesheim 1738, reprint with an afterword by Ernst Palandt, Kassel 1930, pp. 23–24.

literature

• Uwe Pape : North German organ builders and their works 8: Ernst Palandt, E. Palandt & Sohnle, Hildesheim organ building workshop. Pape, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-921140-89-5