Friedrich Fleiter

Friedrich Fleiter (* 1836 ; † 1924 ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Friedrich Fleiter trained with the organ builder Haupt in Osnabrück and was later foreman in the organ building workshop of Franz Wilhelm Sonreck before he went into business for himself in Münster in 1872 . He built his first organ there for the Franciscan monastery. Until the middle of the 1890s he built organs with mechanically operated slide chests , and since 1895 those with pneumatic action . He constructed a 1,895 patented so-called capsule charge to control the wind loading system .

His company was initially based in what was then the Kolping House , until it moved into its own workshop building in 1885. Friedrich Fleiter was a co-founder of the Association of German Organ Builders .

In 1912 his son Ludwig Fleiter (1880–1963) took over the company, which still exists today as a successor company. An organ museum is attached to this, in which the example built by Friedrich Fleiter for the church in Albachten is exhibited.

List of works (selection)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1868	Plate (Lüchow)	St. Mary		II / P	30th	Repair by organ builder Friedrich Fleiter in Rohlfing , Osnabrück
1875	Western Churches	St. Laurence		II / P	20th
1876-1878	Lohne (Oldenburg)	St. Gertrude		II / P	30th	Historic prospectus preserved in parts
1878	Walstedde	St. Lambertus		II / P	14th	Renovated in 2006
1880	Albachten (Munster)	St. Ludgerus		I.	8th	Today it is in the organ museum.
1882	Muenster	St. Mauritz Church		II / P	24	Info about the organ
1883	Everswinkel	St. Magnus		II / P	23	receive
1883	Rinkerode	St. Pancras		II / P	19/20
1885 or 1886	Lingen (Ems)	St. Boniface		II / P	27	St. Boniface Church, organ . 125 years of organ building ... (literature) p. 35 indicates 1886. Using the positive and a register of the previous construction
1886	Werth (Isselburg)	St. Peter and Paul		I / P	8th
1888	Berlin	Good Shepherd Monastery				Info about the organ Originally in the Charlottenburg monastery, revised and expanded in 1979.
1887 or 1884	Lindern (Oldenburg)				27
1888	Havixbeck -Hohenholte	St. George		II / P	15th	preserved, restored in 1991
1888	Essen / Oldenburg	St. Bartholomew			34
1888/1889	Ottmarsbocholt	St. Urban		II / P	22nd	"Using the pipe material of the previous organ", see chap. History_and_architecture of St. Urban . 125 years of organ building ... (literature) p. 35 indicates 1889.
1889	Sendenhorst	St. Josef Stift		II / P	22nd
1890/1899	Mesum	St. John Baptist		II / P	23	Oldest playable organ in the Rheine deanery . Originally 15 registers, expanded to 23 registers in 1991 by adding a choir organ .
1890	Darup	Ss. Fabian and Sebastian		II / P	22nd	Extension of the organ
1890	Muenster	St. Aegidii				St. Aegidii, equipment : parts of the organ reused
1891	Drensteinfurt	St. Regina				Reconstruction of the Vorenweg organ from 1790.
1892	Muenster	Lamberti Church				Reconstruction of the old organ, destroyed in World War II
1893	Barlo (Bocholt)	St. Helena		I.		1957 expanded; Disposition
1894/1882	Herbern (Ascheberg)	St. Benedict		II / P	21/22	St. Benedict, organ : restored. 125 years of organ building Friedrich Fleiter (literature) p. 35, however, records the year 1882 and 22 registers.
1894	Holthausen ( Laer )	St. Mary		I / P	9
1895	Rheda- Wiedenbrück	St. Mary		II / P	22nd	Info about the organ
1898	Billerbeck	St. Ludgerus			28/32	Info about the organ
1899	Duisburg	Church of Our Lady			34	Church destroyed in World War II, see p. Duisburg, buildings
1904-1908	Muenster	Holy Cross Church		II / P	35	Holy Cross Church, organ . "Pneumatic action with capsule drawer", "romantically shaped large organ"
1911	Neuenkirchen (Steinfurt district)	St. Anna		IV / P	58	Information about the organ
1926	Borghorst	St. Nicomedes		III / P	68
1983	Münster-Albachten	St. Ludgerus		II / P	19th
2009–2012	Billerbeck	St. Ludgerus		IV / P	67	Information about the new organ

Individual evidence

1. ↑ An active instrument with a capsule drawer is the organ of the Church of St. Nicomedes zu Borghorst, built by Ludwig Fleiter in 1926 , see p. The Fleiter organ in the St. Nicomedes Church in Borghorst ; and: Ekkehard Stier: On the history of organ dispositions in Westphalia , in: Festschrift 125 years of organ building Friedrich Fleiter (literature) p. 123. A capsule drawer is also exhibited in the Fleiters organ museum.
2. ^ Greetings from A. Rösch, Bund Deutscher Orgelbaumeister in: Festschrift 125 years of organ building Friedrich Fleiter (literature) p. 18
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Festschrift 125 years of organ building Friedrich Fleiter (literature), p. 35.
4. ↑ G. Christian Lobback : Lobback Orgelbauwerkstätten: The case of the organ in Lohne (Oldenburg) St. Gertrud ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 12, 2011 
5. ↑ Community profile Drensteinfurt ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on December 28, 2015 (PDF file). Year s. 125 years of organ building Friedrich Fleiter (source), p. 35, website states 1876 - 1879 as the construction period. 
6. ↑ Society of Organ Friends: Ars Organi ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Issue 2003/3: Lindner, Wolfgang: 120 years of Fleiter organs in the cath. Parish church of St. Magnus in Everswinkel. In: Ars Organi . 51, 2003, pp. 186-189. 
7. ^ BDO: Friedrich Fleiter Orgelbau - Orgeln
8. ↑ www.sven-joosten.de Organ database : Werth, St. Peter and Paul
9. ↑ Thomas Lipski: Organ building in Münster and Westphalia in: Ars Organi . Volume 51, issue 1, note 57 on p. 150, online (PDF; 611 kB) mentions 1884
10. ↑ Festschrift 125 years of organ building ... (literature), p. 234f (with disposition and photo)
11. ^ Catholic parish of St. Martin Nottuln: Ss. Fabian et al. Sebastian Darup , accessed November 12, 2011.
12. ↑ Ekkehard Stier: On the history of organ dispositions in Westphalia in: Festschrift (literature), p. 120, with a comparison of the dispositions
13. ↑ Münster organ magazine: The organs of the cath. St. Lamberti Church Münster ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 12, 2011. 
14. ^ Ekkehard Stier: On the history of organ dispositions in Westphalia. In: Festschrift 125 years of organ building (literature), pp. 122, 124.

literature

• Dr. Klaus Döhring: 125 years of organ building Fleiter in: Orgelbau Friedrich Fleiter (Hrsg.): Festschrift 125 years of organ building Friedrich Fleiter . Thiekötter Druck GmbH, Münster 1997, pp. 31-39

Web links

• www.orgelbau-fleiter.de