Franz Breil

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Franz Breil GmbH organ building since 1836
legal form GmbH
founding 1836
Seat Dorsten , Germany
management Franz Ludger Breil
Branch Musical instrument making

The Franz Breil GmbH is since 1836 in Dorsten / Westfalen in organ building company operating.

history

The organ building workshops Franz Breil were founded in Dorsten in 1836 by Josef Anton Breil. He learned his trade with Fabricius in Grevenbroich / Rhineland, was then a student of Joseph Seyberth in Vienna and then went to Paris , London and Berlin as a journeyman . His brother Johann Anton Breil , who ran a workshop in Regensburg from 1853 to 1892 , learned from him .

Franz Johannes Breil (1828–1903), nephew of the founder, continued the workshop. At the end of the 19th century he switched the wind chest construction from mechanical sliding chests to pneumatic cone chests. His son Franz Josef Breil (1865–1929) introduced electric action in 1925 . From 1948, under Franz Josef Breil's son Franz (1903–1985), the company returned to building mechanical slider drawers.

Franz Ludger Breil (son of Franz Breils) has continued the organ building tradition in Dorsten since the 1980s.

List of works (selection)

year place church image Manuals Reg. Remarks
1906 eat St. Mary's Birth II / P 29 The Breil organ has been part of the church since 1906.
1930 Recklinghausen St. Paul III / P 57 Organ is under monument protection.
1938 Muenster St. Conrad III / P 18 (35) only partially realized.
1949 Muenster St. Lamberti III / P 22 (?) only partially realized.
Instrument replaced in 1988.
1952 Bark St. Remigius III / P 17 (42) only partially realized.
Organ replaced in 1989.
1954 Muenster St. Elisabeth II / P 24 Rebuilt in 2005 by Fleiter Organ Builders
1954
to 1990 		eat St. Michael at the water tower II / P 11 Later 28 reg. (Not preserved).
1957 Cologne New St. Alban Neu-St-Alban-Köln-Orgelempore.JPG II / P 26th → organ
1960 Hildesheim Dom Cathedral Organ Hildesheim.jpg IV / P 52 Technical new building and extension by Klais (1989)
1964 Duisburg Church of Our Lady III / P 42 Organ work free-standing, console attached

at the level of the breastwork

1965 Bremen St. Johann
StJohann-02a.jpg
 III / P 47 → organ
1972 Gelsenkirchen-Buer Provost church of St. Urbanus III / P 50 → organ
1975 Oberhausen - Sterkrade Sacred Heart of Jesus
Breil organ Herz-Jesu OB-Sterkrade.jpg
 III / P 38 → organ
1976 Duisburg Sacred Heart of Jesus III / P 38
1977 Melle St. Matthew
St. Matthäus Melle Breil organ.JPG
 II / P 30th → organ
1979 Riesenbeck St. Kalixtus
Riesenbeck, organ St. Kalixtus.jpg
 II / P 23 Organ work built into the existing old case from 1779. The organ was originally located in the Franciscan monastery in Aschendorf and was moved in 1812. The historical prospect pipes (wooden blind pipes in the substation) have been preserved.
1982 Melle- Gesmold St. Peter Organ in Gesmold.jpg II / P 19th → organ
1982 Dorsten St. Agatha Prospectus of the Breil organ.jpg IV / P 50 → organ
1987 Harsewinkel meeting St. John St. Johannes Greffen - Organ.jpg II / P 22nd → organ

Breil (Regensburg)

One brother, Johann Anton Breil , b. on January 9, 1821 in Dorsten, built his own workshop in Regensburg in 1848 .

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