Friedrich Specht (organ builder)

Friedrich Specht (born June 19, 1808 in Amberg ; † August 23, 1865 there ) was an organ builder from Upper Palatinate .

He learned to be a carpenter and organ maker, presumably from Wilhelm Hepp , and on March 17, 1843, he received the concession to work as an organ builder in Amberg.

List of proven works

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1841	Krumbach near Amberg	St. Johann Baptist		I / P	6th	nothing preserved, around 1960 new building Plössl (4 / I / P appended)
1843	Siegenhofen near Rieden	Our Lady		I / P	8th	1843 new wind chests and action for the organ from the Franciscan monastery Neunburg v. W. from 1807 received by Specht, prospectus and work
around 1845?	Eschenbach	Maria Hilf (mountain church)				This housing existed until 1977. It corresponds to the type that Specht built in Siegenhofen and Schlammersdorf during this period.
1847	Mud village	St. Lucia		I / P	8th	1953 sold to Mainz, St. Quirin, offered for sale in 2019 at Orgelmanufaktur Vleugels [1]
before 1850	Ebermannsdorf	Castle Chapel of St. John Baptist		I / P	6th	Note Kilbert: Specht type register pulls, Funtsch type keyboard cheeks
around 1850	Niedermurach	St. Martin				2013 no organ, electronium
1851	Hirschau	Assumption Day		II / P	18th	not received electronium
1853	Neustadt ad Waldnaab	St. George		II / P	16	not received. Housing mid-18th century, 1974 new construction in Weise, 2007 reorganization and expansion (32 / III / P, Thomas Jann organ building )
1855	Ilsenbach near Neustadt	St. John Baptist		I / P	5	Once in the inventory of Kloss, Kelheim. Preserved in the monastery on the outskirts of the city, which was dissolved in 2019, now part of St. Eligius in Saarbrücken (friendly communication from Orgelbau Anton Habetin, Straubing)
1855	Winklarn	St. Andrew		I / P	11	Church was not rebuilt until 1826 after fire. Organ not preserved, 1990 new organ building Sandtner (23 / II / P)
1858	On the mountain	Our Lady (Court Chapel), "Frauenkirche"		I / P	6th	not received. Currently Opus 493 by Steinmeyer (5 / I / P) on mechanical cone drawer, currently (2020) not playable.
1858	On the mountain	St. Sebastian				not received
1858	On the mountain	Holy Trinity (cemetery church)		I / P	6th	Prospectus and work received, currently (2020) not playable, restoration planned
1859	Schwandorf	Hospital Church		I / P	7th	transferred to the chapel of the Elisabethenheim and reconstruction of the short octave by Kotz
1859	Kemnath a. Buchberg	St. Margareta		I / P	7th	not preserved, picture before 1963, replaced this year by a new building, Weise (13 / II / P)
1862	Pittersberg	St. Nicholas		I / P	9	Prospectus and work received
1863	Schwandorf	St. Jacob		II / P	12	not received

literature

• Michael Bernhard: Organ Database Bavaria , Version 5, 2009
• Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Historical Organs in Eschenbacher Land (Part III) - The former Friedrich-Specht-Organ from Schlammersdorf in: Heimat Eschenbach , 1988, Ed. Heimatverein Eschenbach, pp. 30–32
• Rainer Kilbert : The Amberg organ builder Friedrich Specht, life and work . Technical work in the advanced music course 1981/83, Max-Reger-Gymnasium Amberg
• Rainer Kilbert : The Amberg organ builder Friedrich Specht . In: Oberpfälzer Heimat , 1984, pp. 86–95.
• Rainer Kilbert : The organs of the city of Amberg . In: The Upper Palatinate , 1991.
• Johann Ott: On the history of Eschenbach church music in: Heimat Eschenbach , 2009 Ed. Heimatverein Eschenbach 2010, pp. 24–26
• Eberhard Kraus: Historic organs in the Upper Palatinate . Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7954-0387-1 .