Funtsch
Funtsch was the name of a family based in Amberg , which produced several important organ builders.
Johann Baptist Funtsch
* March 2, 1674 in Bergrothenfels ; † January 1, 1743 in Amberg . He probably learned from Johann Jost Schleich in Lohr am Main and after his apprenticeship he teamed up with Jakob Berns (1678–1753) from Karlstadt. Both were in work at Zacharias Thayßner (Merseburg) until 1706 . From 1710 to 1722 Funtsch had a workshop in Bergrothenfels. In 1722 in Amberg, after the death of Johann Conrad Vogel, he obtained the electoral privilege to build organs for the Upper Palatinate . Berns returned "insalutati hospiti" to Karlstadt in 1735, where he had citizenship. In his workshop Funtsch trained his two sons Johann Konrad and Johann Adam Funtsch, who took over the business after his death in 1743.
Works from the Main Franconian creative period (Rothenfels), built together with J. Th. Berns
year | place | church | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
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around 1700 | Volkersbrunn | St. Rochus | I / P | 6th | Repair? Sold in 1962 to Christian Gerhard (Boppard), is in a church in the Diocese of Trier | |
1710 | On the mountain | School church | Repair? Not received. 1760 new building by Johann Konrad Funtsch, see there | |||
1712 | Remlingen (Lower Franconia) | Protestant church | Pictures of the organ in the video "Our Church" | First independent new building "based on mathematical reasons". Housing preserved, organ 1929 by Steinmeyer (15 / II / P) | ||
1712 | Bamberg | Our Lady (Upper Parish) | I / P | 7th | Choir organ | |
around 1712 | Gerolzhofen | Mary of the Rosary | Housing preserved, Winterhalter factory 1998 (36 / III / P) | |||
1716 | Stadtprozelten | St. Barbara and Georg | I / P | 12 | Not received. Current organ 1904 by Schlimbach (16 / II / P) | |
1717 | Neunkirchen (Lower Franconia) | St. Peter and Paul | 1822 demolition of the church. | |||
1721 | Billingshausen Lower Franconia | Protestant church | Seen here | I / P | 9 | Prospectus received. Darin Steinmeyer 1938 (11 / I / P) |
Works from the Upper Palatinate creative period (Amberg)
year | place | church | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
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1721 | Vineyards | Assumption Day | Built as a test piece with Jakob Berns, replaced by a new building by Johann Konrad Funtsch in 1776, see there | |||
1724 | Give Bach | St. Martin | Built with Jakob Berns, new building by JC Funtsch in 1788, not preserved | |||
1727 | Lauterhofen | St. Michael | Built with Jakob Berns; 1789 new building by Johann Konrad Funtsch, see there | |||
1727 | Armesberg | Holy Trinity | I / P appended | 6th | Built with Jakob Berns; the church was struck by lightning on May 22, 1819. | |
around 1729 | On the mountain | St. Sebastian | Built with Jakob Berns, not preserved, after 1750 new building in Funtsch, 1955 new building by Ignaz Weise (7 / II / P), prospectus Hartmann 1991 | |||
around 1729 | Eschenbach in the Upper Palatinate | Maria Hilf (mountain chapel) | In 1772 the chapel was replaced by the current mountain church. Until 1977 there was an organ case that was clearly of the type of Friedrich Specht (Amberg) | |||
1731 | Branch (forest munich) | Our Lady | Built with Jakob Berns; Replaced in 1771 by a new building by Andreas Weiß , Nabburg, factory preserved | |||
1731 | Penting | St. Nicholas | Built with Jakob Berns; In 1888 the vaulted ceiling collapsed and almost all of the interior furnishings were destroyed. | |||
1733 | On the mountain | Pilgrimage church Mariahilf | II / P | 11 | Built with Jakob Berns; Prospectus received, 1978 new organ building in Weise (25 / III / P) | |
1733 | Simmelsdorf -Bühl, Nürnberger Land | Mariae Visitation | Built with Jakob Berns; Prospectus received, the later Funtsch prospectus type is already hinted at here | |||
1734 | On the mountain | Our Lady (Court Chapel) | not preserved, 1858 new building by Friedrich Specht , not preserved | |||
1735 | Ursensollen -Hohenkemnath | Assumption Day | I / P | 8th | last organ built with Jakob Berns, not preserved | |
1738 | Auerbach in the Upper Palatinate | St. John | Extension of the previous organ, 1755 new building by Johann Konrad Brandenstein (17 / II / P), prospectus preserved, 1971 new building by Steinmeyer (25 / II / P) | |||
1741 | Ursensollen | St. Vitus | Not received | |||
1741 | Lauterhofen -Trautmannshofen | Parish church Mariae names | I / P | 11 | Joh. Baptist and Joh. Konrad, prospectus received. Partly new building 1979 Mathis , Näfels (Switzerland) |
Johann Konrad Funtsch
* January 10, 1710 in Bergrothenfels; † November 3, 1792 in Amberg. Son of Johann Baptist Funtsch. Together with his younger brother Johann Adam (see below) he continued the workshop of his father after his death in 1743 and is considered to be the most important organ builder in Upper Palatinate in the 18th century.
Proven works
year | place | church | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
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1746 | Lintach | St. Walburga | I / P | 7th | Brochure received, 1901 new building GF Steinmeyer (8 / I / P) | |
1747 | City of Kemnath | Assumption Day | not preserved, 1860 new building Weineck, 1950 new building Weise, 1998 new building Sandtner (26 / II / P) | |||
around 1750 | Hahnbach , Kreuzberg | Holy Cross | I / P | 7th | Prospectus received, 1893 new building by GF Steinmeyer (6 / I / P) as opus 486 | |
1750 | Neumarkt | St. Anna |
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Prospectus received. Factory: Georg Jann 1978 (7 / I / P) | ||
1750/63 | Michelfeld | Monastery Church of St. John Baptist | II / P | 18th | Prospectus received, 1941 new building in Weise (23 / II / P) | |
1751 | Kohlberg | St. Nicholas | I / P | 8th | Prospectus received, 1923 new building Holländer (7 / II / P), 1979 new building Walcker (10 / II / P), 2012 revision Maderer | |
1753 | On the mountain | St. Katharina's cemetery church | I / P | 9 | Prospectus and manual wind chest with register action (swords) preserved, renovation and expansion of the inventory in 1990 by Hartmann (Regensburg), 2020 general overhaul after church restoration by Rainer Kilbert (Regensburg) | |
1753 | Koenigstein | St. George | I / P | 10 | 1905 new building by Johannes Strebel , the atypical prospectus has been preserved. | |
1754 | Pursruck | St. Ursula | I / P | 7th | Prospectus received, 1998 new building (9 / II / P) Johannes Schädler (Donaustauf) | |
1759 | Mockersdorf | St Michael | I / P | 10 | Prospectus received, 1963 new Hirnschrodt building (14 / II / P), electric cone chest | |
1759 | Kemnath | Franciscan monastery church | II / P | 16 | 1802 transferred to the Assumption of Mary in Erbendorf , only modified case preserved → organ |
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1760 | On the mountain |
School Church of St. Augustine |
II / P | 19th | Prospectus received, 1993 new organ building Sandtner (26 / II / P) | |
1760 | Stettkirchen near Hohenburg | Mariae Visitation | I / P | 10 | Prospectus and work preserved, signature JA Funtsch, 1972 restoration Hermann Kloss , 2013 revision by Helmut Kilger | |
1760 | Büchenbach near Pegnitz | St. Vitus | I / P | 9 | Prospectus received, new building after 1888, use of Funtsch substance? | |
1761 | Aschach | 1898 New building by Binder and Siemann (9 / I / P) in a neo-baroque housing | ||||
1762 | Ebnath | not preserved, 1902 new building Wolf (12 / II / P), 1995 new building Hey (25 / II / P) | ||||
1764 | Hirschau | 14 Church of the Holy Helpers | I / P | 10 | Prospectus and work preserved, signature JA Funtsch June 7, 1764, 1984 Rickert restoration (Regensburg) | |
1765 | Pressath | St. George | II / P | 14th | Prospectus received, 1977 new building in Nenninger (21 / II / P) | |
1767 | On the mountain | St. George | II / P | 22nd | The largest organ built by Funtsch. Prospectus preserved, 1903 new building Edenhofer (14 / II / P), 1913/1941/1961 extensions from Weise to (33 / III / P), 1981 new building (48 / III / P) Oberlinger . New building with additional choir organ in planning (2023) | |
1767 | Habsberg near Velburg | Mary salvation of the sick | II / P | 16 | Prospectus and work preserved, 1972 Klais restoration , 2004 Kuhn revision (Männedorf, Switzerland) | |
1769 | Hofstetten near Ensdorf | not received, April 2013 harmonium | ||||
1769 | Hofenstetten near Neunburg v. W. | not received, April 2013 electronium | ||||
1769 | Hohenkemnath | not received | ||||
around 1770 | Erlheim | St. Laurence | Prospectus received, new building 1992, Weise (7 / I / P) | |||
1770 | Hahnbach | St. Jacob | II / P | 16 | Prospectus received, 1904 new building Binder and Siemann (23 / II / P), 2010 auxiliary Thomas Jann . The only Funtsch brochure that optically reflects the 2-manual nature. | |
1772 | Church ping garden | St. Jacob | I / P | 12 | Prospectus received, 1891 new Edenhofer building (10 / I / P), 2004 reconstruction of the Schober | |
1773 | Simple | St. George | I / P | 10 | Prospectus received, 1975 new building Hirnschrodt / Jann op. 1 (16 / II / P) | |
1776 | Vineyards | Assumption Day | I / P | 10 | Prospectus received, 1976 new Kloss building, 2010 new Mathis building (18 / II / P) | |
1776 | Paulsdorf | St. Peter and Paul | I / P | 7th | Prospectus received., 1902 new building in Maerz (5 / I / P) | |
1777 | Illschwang | St. Vitus (simultaneous church) | 1878 new building GF Steinmeyer , neo-renaissance prospect, mechanical cone drawer (11 / I / P) | |||
1778 | Thurndorf | St. James Major | not received | |||
1778 | Zant at Ursensollen | St. Joseph | I / P | 6th | Prospectus and work received | |
1782 | Heldmannsberg | Assumption Day | Prospectus received, 1903 Bittner (7 / I / P) | |||
1782 | Mitterauerbach | Our Lady | I / P | 7th | Prospectus and work preserved, 1982 restoration by Rickert (Regensburg) | |
1783 | Pond near Hirschau | Sacrifice of the Virgin | not preserved, current work from 1860, transferred to the church in 1920 | |||
1783 | Pölling near Neumarkt | St. Martin | Old church demolished in 1934, organ prospectus and work not preserved | |||
1785 | Hohenburg | St. Salvator Cemetery Church | I / P | 8th | Prospectus and work preserved, signature JA Funtsch. 1897 Edenhofer renovation , 1984 Nenninger restoration | |
1787 | Wutschdorf | St. Martin | Positive, not received | |||
1788 | Give Bach | St. Martin and Mausberg | I / P | 8th | both not received | |
1789 | Schnaittach | St. Kunigund | not preserved, 1935 new building GF Steinmeyer (26 / II / P) op.1588 | |||
1789 | Kümmersbruck | St. Anton | I / P | 6th | not received | |
1789 | Lauterhofen | I / P | 10 | One of the last preserved Funtsch brochures (1984 new Thonius building (10 / I / P), almost within sight of Trautmannshofen (1741), and the preserved Funtsch am Habsberg (1767)) | ||
before 1792 | Lauterbach near Burggriesbach | St. Willibald | Brochure received, factory 1907 Edenhofer (4 / I / P) | |||
before 1800 | Wiesau | St. Michael | I / P | 10 |
Undated attributions
( Kilbert and Bayerische Orgeldatenbank 2009)
place | church | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
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On the mountain | Paulan Church | after 1750; 1813 to Dietkirchen (Dietkirchen near Neumarkt ?, at least not preserved there) | |||
Pfaffenhofen near Kastl | St. Martin | Around 1750, prospectus received, 1979 new building Sandtner (I / P / 7) | |||
On the mountain | St. Sebastian | after 1750, not preserved. 1955 new building in Weise (II / P / 7), 1991 Hartmann prospect with a Baroque style | |||
Kaltenbrunn | St. Martin (former simultaneous church) | after 1750, prospectus preserved, work 1905 Franz Borgias Maerz (I / P / 10). | |||
Waldkirchen (Petersberg) | St. Peter and Paul (sic!) | after 1750, prospectus preserved, Willibald Siemann factory 1923 (II / P / 12) | |||
Dear | St. Nicholas | after 1760, prospectus preserved, plant Ludwig Edenhofer junior 1911 (II / P / 9) | |||
Willhof near Altendorf | St. Jacob | ODB Bavaria: before 1800. The picture below can be seen in the church. But there are also similarities with the organ of the nearby Guteneck Castle Church (after 1823, attributed to Funtsch's successor Wilhelm Hepp ) |
Johann Adam Funtsch
* August 2, 1721 in Rothenfels; † October 1, 1810 in Amberg. Together with his brother Johann Konrad Funtsch, he learned the trade of organ builder in his father's workshop. The brothers took over the workshop after their father's death in 1743. After his brother's death in 1792, he continued to run the business on his own until 1796 and then handed it over to the former journeyman Wilhelm Hepp .
literature
- Michael Bernhard, Organ Database Bavaria , Version 5, 2009
- Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : The Funtsch family of organ builders in Amberg. In: Oberpfälzer Heimat No. 22, 1978, pp. 117–124
- Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Organ monuments in Middle Franconia. Ulrike Schneider Rensch Orgelbaufachverlag, Lauffen am Neckar 2001, ISBN 3-921848-08-3
- Rainer Kilbert : The organs of the city of Amberg . In: The Upper Palatinate. Laßleben, Kallmünz 1991, p. 228ff.
- Rainer Kilbert : On the organ history of the Pursruck parish church. Festschrift for the organ consecration. 1991
- Eberhard Kraus : Historic organs in the Upper Palatinate . Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7954-0387-1
- Johann Ott, On the history of Eschenbach church music in: Heimat Eschenbach 2009 Ed. Heimatverein Eschenbach, 2010, pp. 24–26
Web links
- OKB / Heike Nasritdinova: Funtsch family . Entry in the database of the Oberpfälzer Kulturbund (currently not available)