Eggert Organ Building Institute

Organ inscription St. Marien Church (Güsten)

The Eggert Orgelbau-Anstalt was an organ building company in Paderborn , which made a name for itself as a specialist company in the second half of the 19th century in East Westphalia and South Westphalia , but also in neighboring areas by building new church organs.

history

The company was founded by Georg Josias Eggert, who came from Klein Oschersleben near Magdeburg and settled in Paderborn. He ran a carpentry shop in the Adam and Eve house and also built organs. The company was continued by Karl Joseph Eggert (* January 18, 1808 - December 16, 1886), organ builder, in Paderborn in 1840. After his training, his son Franz Eggert (born March 9, 1849 - October 13, 1911) took over his father's business in Paderborn in 1874. He built most of the organs for churches in what is now the diocesan area of the Archdiocese of Paderborn . But he also had orders for the construction of church organs in Magdeburg, Wuppertal, Berlin, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Düsseldorf and in the Netherlands. Franz Eggert had no descendants. Due to his deteriorating health, he was no longer able to continue the company at the age of 53. In 1902 he sold the family business to the organ builder Anton Feith (1872–1929), who came from Cologne. Feith signed contracts under the name Franz Eggert Orgelbau-Anstalt until 1907 . The son Anton Feith II took over the company from his father in the 1920s and continued to run it until 1972. Over 800 organs were built in the Feith era. In the post-war period in particular, there was a high demand for new buildings in the destroyed cities. In 1973 Siegfried Sauer took over the company and relocated production to Höxter-Ottbergen, after having previously taken over the Stegerhoff company from Steinheim. In his time 300 mostly large organs were built, u. a. the new Paderborn cathedral organ (1981), the organ in St. Sophien in Hamburg (1997) and the large concert organ with remote control in the historic town hall of Wuppertal (1997). As Sauer & Heinemann Orgelbau , the company has been continued in a newly founded company since 2015.

At least three organs are known by Karl Eggert. Over 105 organs have been built under the direction of Franz Eggert. Several organ buildings by the Eggert Orgelbau-Anstalt have not yet been documented.

Catalog of works (selection)

The list offers a selection of new buildings.

year	place	church	Manuals	register	Remarks
1845	Anröchte Mountains	St. Michael	I / P	15th	Karl Eggert
1848	Paderborn	Motherhouse Chapel of the Sisters of Mercy (Vincentian Sisters)	I.	unknown	Karl Eggert
1853	Anröchte -Altengeseke	St. Nicholas	I / P	22nd	Karl Eggert
1877	Lichtenau , Paderborn district	St. Kilian	I / P	20th	Franz Eggert
1881	Meschede	Meschede Abbey	II / P	21st	Destroyed in 1945
1888	Elberfeld	Saint Mary's	II / P	24	Destroyed in 1943
1892	Warstein - Allages	St. Johann Baptist	II / P	17th	Franz Eggert
1893	Churches (victory)	St Michael	II / P	22nd	mechanical cone shop, expanded to II / 30 in 1929/30 and pneumatized (Georg Stahlhuth). Restored in 2002, expanded to II / 33, now electro-pneumatic. The case, wind chests and large parts of the pipework have been preserved.
1894	Rüthen	St. John Baptist	II / P	27	pneumatic cone store
1897	Warburg - Welda	St. Kilian	I / P	9	Franz Eggert, in 1953 the organ was provided with an electric fan; the action of the pipe organ is controlled electro-pneumatically .
1898	Bad Driburg	St. Peter and Paul	II / P	27	1989 restoration; today II / P / 31
1898	Magdeburg- Ottersleben	Mary Help of Christians
1898	Dortmund-Hombruch	St. Clemens (Hombruch)		19th
1899	Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg	Sacred Heart Church	III / P	40	pneumatic cone store
1901	Will bath food	St. Vitus	II / P	22nd
1910	Little Oschersleben	St. Mary			Opus 193. In the place of origin of the company founder.
1911	Castle (near Magdeburg)	St. John the Baptist			Opus 204. Inscription on the organ: Franz Eggert (Ant. Feith jr.), Paderborn
1923	Güsten	St. Mary	II / P	11	Opus 237, after various changes in 2010 by the organ building company Baumhoer from Salzkotten (North Rhine-Westphalia) restored and restored the highly romantic sound
1929	Brilon	Propsteikirche St. Peter and Andreas	III / P	40
1929	Neheim	St. John Baptist	III / P	58
1950	Hemer	St. Petrus Canisius			Anton Feith
1958	Cough	Holy Spirit	III / P	32
1960	eat	Holy Spirit	II / P	26th

literature

Organ building institute Franz Eggert: Various prospectus material, Paderborn 1874–1902.
Rudolf Reuter: Organs in Westphalia. Kassel 1965.
Winfried Schlepphorst: The organs of the St. Nikolaus Church in Altengeseke. Festschrift on the occasion of the consecration of the restored organ on May 18, 1997. P. 4 ff.
Schematism of the Diocese of Paderborn. Vicariate General, Paderborn 1899.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Organ in Driburg , accessed on January 9, 2015.
↑ Restoration , accessed July 7, 2019

[1] Organ in Driburg , accessed on January 9, 2015.

[2] Restoration , accessed July 7, 2019