Franz Sales Hechinger

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Franz Sales Hechinger (born January 12, 1800 in Hayingen , † July 29, 1887 in New York ) was a German organ builder who came from southern Germany and emigrated to the United States in the mid-1850s . There he ran an organ building company in New York with one of his sons until 1883.

Life

Franz Sales Hechinger was born in January 1800 as the son of the organ builder Anton Hechinger (1755-1835) and his wife Anna Maria (née Hagg) in Hayingen, a small town on the Swabian Alb . His father continued the organ building workshop of his stepfather, the Hayinger organ builder Joseph Martin . Hechinger completed his training in his father's workshop. He then followed his older brother Stefan Hechinger (* 1793) to Vienna and moved on to Preßburg , where he married for the first time in 1828. No further information is available about this marriage.

After his return home, Franz Sales Hechinger married Rosalia Schmatz (1805–1882) on July 1, 1833 at the age of 33 in Hayingen. In 1835 he and his family settled in Ulm or Wiblingen (today: Ulm-Wiblingen), where he eventually took over the orphaned workshop of the Schmahl family organ builders . He worked as an organ builder in the Ulm, Biberach an der Riß , Laupheim and Zwiefalten area and in the Illertal . In addition to rebuilding mostly smaller organs, he also carried out numerous repairs. In Hechinger's Ulm workshop, Georg Friedrich Steinmeyer perfected his training as an assistant around 1840.

Few of the works of Franz Sales Hechinger have survived, such as the case of his organ new building for the Catholic parish church of St. Martin in Grundsheim to 1835 The St. him in the years 1841-42 for the Catholic church in Blasius Attenweiler built The organ with ten registers has largely been preserved in its original condition and has been a listed building since 1952.

At the age of 55, Hechinger emigrated to the United States in 1855 with his wife and two adult sons Anton (* 1833) and Eduard (* 1835). With twelve boxes of luggage, the family reached the port of New York on June 23, 1855 on the emigrant ship "Anna Delius". While the older son Anton Hechinger became a Catholic priest, Eduard ("Edward") Hechinger ran an organ building workshop in New York with his father. Until 1883, one year after the death of Rosalia Hechinger, the existence of the company "Francis Hechinger and Son" in the borough of Brooklyn with the address 110 Troutman Street is documented in the address books of New York.

Franz Sales Hechinger died in New York in 1887 at the age of 87. After his death, the company appears to have been dissolved. The children of his son Eduard took up other professions far from music.

Works (selection)

year place church image Manuals register Remarks
1835 Grundsheim Parish Church of St. Martin II / P 9 Housing received.
1836 Bihlafingen Parish Church of St. Theodulus Organ St. Theodulus Laupheim-Bihlafingen.jpg I / P 12 Replaced by Reiser in 1946, incorporating older registers (and probably also the prospectus)
1841/42 Attenweiler Parish Church of St. Blaise 10 receive; Restored in 2014
1842 Rogue blades Parish church of St. Mary and St. Conrad / Heart of Jesus 13 Replaced in 1934 by a new building from Reiser
1843 Unterkirchberg Parish Church of St. Martin 8th not preserved, replaced around 1900
1844 Wippingen
1845/46 Huettisheim Parish Church of St. Michael 12 not received

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ancestry Genealogy Database : New York City Death Index 1862–1948 , ancestry.com, accessed September 26, 2017.
  2. ^ A b Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas: Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Heinrichshofen-Bücher, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 , p. 144.
  3. ^ Ancestry genealogy database: Germany, Heiraten 1558–1929 , ancestry.com, accessed September 26, 2017.
  4. ^ A b c d e Wolfgang Manecke, Johannes Mayr: Historical organs in the Alb-Danube district, in Ulm, Hayingen and Zwiefalten. Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Ulm 1999, ISBN 3-88294-268-1 .
  5. ^ Hermann Fischer, Rudolf Quoika:  Steinmeyer, Georg Friedrich. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 15 (Schoof - Stranz). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1135-7  ( online edition , subscription required for full access) (mention of Franz Sales Hechinger)
  6. ↑ Emigration from Southwest Germany. In: emanderer-bw.de. Retrieved September 26, 2017 .
  7. ^ Anna Delius passenger list , immigrantships.net, accessed on September 26, 2017.
  8. ↑ a b c Ancestry Genealogy Database: Brooklyn, New York, City Directory, 1883 , ancestry.com, accessed September 26, 2017.
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Manecke , Johannes Mayr: Historical organs in Upper Swabia. The district of Biberach. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1995, ISBN 3-7954-1069-X , p. 189.
  10. ↑ Church and its history. In: se-ulrika-nisch.drs.de. April 25, 2015. Retrieved September 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hechinger, Franz Sales
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Hayingen
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1887
Place of death New York City