Ernst Seifert (organ builder)

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Ernst Hubert Seifert (born May 9, 1855 in Sülzdorf ; † April 27, 1928 in Cologne ) was a German organ builder and founder of the Seifert organ building company .

Life

The son of a Thuringian forester learned the profession of organ builder with Jahn in Dresden. It achieved its importance for organ building in the 19th century primarily through the invention of the diaphragm box .

In 1885 he set up his own organ building workshop in the Mannsfeld district of Cologne (in today's Raderberg district ) and founded a branch in Kevelaer in 1906 on the occasion of the new organ building in the Marienbasilika there . His brothers Gotthard and Eberhard also worked in his workshop for a time, and later his sons Ernst Jr., Walter and Romanus Seifert . Romanus took over the Kevelaer branch in 1914 and was soon running it independently. Ernst Seifert junior later went into business for himself in Bergisch Gladbach. The third son, Walter Seifert, continued his father's business in Cologne-Mannsfeld under the name of his father Ernst Seifert, which is why there were at times two different companies called Ernst Seifert, one in Bergisch Gladbach and the other in Cologne-Mannsfeld. At the turn of the year 1981/82, Helmut Seifert gave up the Cologne business, so that Kevelaer is now the company's headquarters under the company Orgelbau Romanus Seifert & Sohn GmbH & Co.

List of works (selection)

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1889/1925 Essen- Bredeney St. Mark II / P 29 Pneumatic 1889, renewed in 1925, electric game and stop action, extended by a Rückpositiv to III / P / 34 in 1955
1898 Cologne St. Gereon Totally destroyed in 1941/1944
1903 Mönchengladbach Christ Church not received
1903 Alt-Huerth St. Catherine 1926 extended by 6 registers; restored in 1960 by Seifert, Kevelaer; Overhauled by Weimbs in 1990 and 2011 and console in front of the organ
1907/1926 Kevelaer Marienbasilika Kevelaer, Marienbasilika Organ 2011.jpg IV / P 149 initially 104 registers, expanded in 1926; 149 registers today, the largest German-Romantic organ in the world that has survived
1907 Neuss Quirinus Minster Neuss StQuirin Organ.JPG III / P 78 Renewed and rebuilt many times (1938 mute prospectus pipes, fourth manual 1955) 86 stops, restored 1993/94
1909 Kettwig St. Peter Prospectus received
1912 Altenberg Altenberg Cathedral III / P 50 Replaced in 1980
1912 Cologne- Bayenthal Parish Church of St. Matthias not received
1925 Essen- Bredeney St. Mark II / P 29 electric action, added Rückpositiv in 1955 by Romanus Seifert; Replaced in 1996

literature

  • Adriaan Poirters: Het Pelgrimken van Kevelaer . LIT Verlag, Berlin / Hamburg / Münster 2001, ISBN 3-8258-3348-8 .
  • 125 years of organ building Seifert Kevelaer . Organum Musikproduktion, Öhringen 2010, ISBN 3-9809-2324-X ; Companion book to audio CD

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Willings Kevelaerer Encyclopedia | Ernst Seifert I | Organ builder in Kevelaer. Retrieved July 13, 2020 .
  2. ^ History of the organs in St. Nikolaus, Cologne-Sülz. Parish of St. Nicholas and Karl Borromeo, archived from the original on March 22, 2011 ; Retrieved September 25, 2014 .
  3. The new Heintz organ in St. Markus Essen-Bredeney, commemorative publication for the inauguration on June 23, 1996, ed. from the organ building association St. Markus eV