GF Steinmeyer & Co.

GF Steinmeyer & Co.
legal form	GmbH & Co. KG
founding	1847
Seat	Oettingen in Bavaria
management	Paul Steinmeyer, Martin Steinmeyer, Susanne Steinmeyer
Branch	Organ building (1847-2001), asset management (since 2001)
Website	www.steinmeyer-orgeln.de

The company GF Steinmeyer & Co. in Oettingen was in the years 1847 to 2001 a renowned manufacturer of harmonies and organs .

Porcelain sign on op.158 Protestant church in Leutershausen / Mfr.

history

Georg Friedrich Steinmeyer (1819–1901)

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The company was founded in 1847 by Georg Friedrich Steinmeyer , who u. a. was trained by Eberhard Friedrich Walcker . The company produced over 6000 harmonies until after the First World War. However, it is of particular importance and notoriety for organ building. The Steinmeyer organ for the Schützenhaus in Meiningen (1913) z. B. followed designs by Max Reger . The largest church organ in the world in Passau Cathedral was originally designed by Steinmeyer (1928), as was the organ in Hamburg's Michel (1960). The historic organs of the Ottobeuren basilica had already been restored in 1914 and 1922 . Also worth mentioning is the Steinmeyer main organ in St. Lorenz in Nuremberg (1879/1937), which is today the second largest organ in Germany ( renovated and expanded by Klais in 2002 ). The company founder only built cone shops from the start . By 1900, 676 organs and numerous harmonies had been delivered. His Opus 1 from 1848 was the first cone chest organ in Bavaria, his Opus 2 from 1849 his only slider chest organ. Later, the company was also involved in the further development of the pocket drawer, before almost exclusively electropneumatic actions were manufactured. Compared to other companies, the company reintroduced the mechanical sliding drawer relatively late in the 1950s. In 1929 Steinmeyer had built 1,500 organs and in the end almost 2,400 organs.

Johannes Steinmeyer (1857–1928)

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After the death of Georg Friedrich Steinmeyer in 1901, his son Johannes took over the business. Despite the sometimes difficult economic situation in the 1920s, 750 organs were built under his direction.

Hans Steinmeyer (1889–1970)

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Johannes Steinmeyer had two sons: Hans (1889–1970) and Fritz (senior) (1895–1974). Hans Steinmeyer took over the management of the company after the death of his father in 1928. Around 700 new organs were built under his leadership.

Fritz Steinmeyer junior (1918–2008)

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In 1967, Hans Steinmeyer handed over management to his eldest son Fritz (junior) (1918–2008). Around 240 organs were built under his leadership from 1967 to 1993.

Paul Steinmeyer (1933-2019)

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Paul Steinmeyer , the son of Fritz senior (1895–1974), took over the management of the company from his cousin Fritz junior in 1993.

Active organ building was stopped in 2001. In order to preserve and manage the historical building stock, the inventory and the globally unique organ building archive, the company was converted into an asset management company.

Before this conversion, a workshop building that was no longer needed was sold to the wife of the organ builder Karl Göckel , which has been for sale again since August 2011. In 2001 Göckel founded the company Orgelbau Steinmeyer Inh. Karl Göckel e. K., which today operates as "Orgelbau Steinmeyer GmbH".

Works (selection)

year	opus	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1848	1	Frankenhofen	Protestant church		I / P	10	with cone shop; Replaced in 1968 by op. 2201, has been in the Oettinger workshop since then
1849	2	Wind field	St. Gangolf		I / P	7th	only slider organ from the company founder
1855	12	Emetzheim	St. John d. baptist		I / P	9	Pedal keyboard has been renewed and expanded above with two more keys
1860	26th	Lindau (Lake Constance)	St. Stephan		III / P	43	1923 and 1975 new buildings by Steinmeyer
1868	66	Salzburg	Christ Church		II / P	15th	Theodor Mann played the organ on August 21, 1884. → The organ was seriously changed by Gollini in 1979 .
1869	82	Weidelbach (Dinkelsbühl)	Ortisei		II / P	13	Special feature: Harmonium register Physharmonika 8 ′ in the II. Manual
1870	92	Sausenhofen	Ev. St. Michael		I / P	7th	Cone tray; Pipes taken from the previous organ; Pedal only 16 ′ with belt; Get calcant; Pewter prospect pipes from 1989
1870	98	Tschirn	Catholic parish church St. Jakobus d. Ä.		II / P	18th	Special feature: 2 harmonium registers, 1 physharmonica 8 ′ in manual II and a resounding trombone register 16 ′ in the pedal. Tonally and technically in original condition.
1873	115	Vienna	St. Brigitta		II / P	21st	Erected for the 1873 World Exhibition in Vienna, then transferred to the parish church of St. Brigitta → Organ
1874	120	Vaduz	Parish Church of St. Florin		III / P	33	Arranged and inaugurated by Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger . 2013 reconstructed new building by Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen (III / P, 48)
1875	137	Sommerhausen	Ev. St. Bartholomew		II / P	19th	Brochure planning by Leopoldo Retti / Johann Philipp Seuffert 1740
1875	140	Rüdenhausen	St. Peter and Paul		I.	12
1876	145	Fröschweiler / Alsace	Friedenskirche	Image wanted	II / P	16
1877	158	Leutershausen / Ansbach	ev. church	Image wanted	II / P	20th	Disposition neo-baroque changed
1878	171	Hainhofen	St. Stephen			11	Restored in 2009 by Orgelbau Knöpfler
1878	186	Illschwang	Illschwang fortified church		I / P	11	Mechanical cone tray
1880	200	Munich	woman Church		III / P	54	not received
1884	235	Burghausen	Former study church St. Josef		I / P	10	→ organ
1884	255	Dingolfing	City parish church St. Johannes		II / P	34
1885	268	Hof (Saale)	City Church of St. Mary		II / P	24	1994/95 restored by Orgelbau Klais Bonn
1885	271	Rothenburg ob der Tauber	St. John's Church		II / P	26th	Extended in 1993, restored in 2004
1885	276	Bad Kissingen	Protestant Church of the Redeemer		II / P	22nd	Remodeling 1910 (Opus 1045)
1885	277	Drought imprecise	Ev. St. James		I / P	8th	Prospectus by Johann Jakob Bodechtel; 2017 general renovation → organ
1886	312	Munich-Giesing	Holy Cross Church		II / P	30th	1975 new work by Orgelbau Eisenbarth with III / 42
1887	334	Heilsbronn	Ev. Minster Heilsbronn		II / P	24	1959 replaced by opus 1975
1890	410	Tittmoning	All Saints Church		II / P	14th	→ organ
1890	412	Landshut	St. Jodok		II / P	30th	1966 remodeling by Gerhard Schmid → organ
1891	437	Weißenstadt	City Church of St. James		II / P	18th	2006 Restoration by Orgelbau Sandtner
1892	452	Neustadt am Kulm	Evangelical parish church		II / P	16	Restored in 1985 by Hey Orgelbau
1892		Murnau am Staffelsee	St. Nicholas		II / P	21st	Replaced by a new building in 1970
1893	471	Röckingen	Ev. St. Laurence		II / P	14th	Pneumatics with wedge bellows
1893	490	Oberammergau	St. Peter and Paul		II / P	30th	Preserved with added positive return. → organ
1894	510	Bamberg	St. Martin		II / P	38	Restoration by Hermann Eule → organ
1896	566	Göggingen	St. John		II / P	15th	A harmonium is built in as the third manual
1901	721	Munich	Church of the Redeemer		II / P	21st	1938 extended by Albert Moser to III / 38. → organ
1905	854	Frankfurt am Main	St. Matthew		III / P	41	Loss of war
1907	942	Neustadt, Weinstrasse	Catholic parish church of St. Marien	Image wanted	II / P	34	1962 and 1974 rebuilt by Orgelbau Späth (to III / P, 45 stops)
1908	993	Geroldshausen	Evang. church		I / P	8th	Original disposition
around 1910						harmonium	early design. Current location in the Air Museum in Amberg
1911	1100	Mannheim	Christ Church		V / P	92	→ organ
1912	1126	Blieskastel	Protestant Church		II / P	14th	1960 Redesign and expansion by Lotar Hintz ( Heusweiler ), 2009 renovation by OBM Peter Ohlert ( Kirkel ), restoring the original layout while retaining it the expansion from 1960. → Organ
1912		Gerzen	St. George		II / P	17th	Replaced in 1983 by the new Georg Jann building, case preserved → organ
1913	1185	Arnstadt	Bach Church Arnstadt		III / P	55	1997–2000 restored by Hoffmann and Schindler → Organ
1913		Eysölden	St. Thomas
1913	1159	Biesingen / Blieskastel	St. Anna		II / P	19th	Original disposition received. Renovated in 1994 by Hugo Mayer Orgelbau ( Heusweiler ). → organ
1913	1160	Pfronten	St. Nicholas			47	Replaced in 2009 by an organ from Romanus Seifert , parts of the pipework taken over in the successor instrument
1914	1180	Meiningen (1914) Berlin-Haselhorst (1937)	Christmas Church	Image wanted	III / P	42 (+ 3 transmissions)	built in 1914 for the Schützenhaus in Meiningen according to specifications by Max Reger and inaugurated by Karl Straube , sold to the Christmas Church in 1937. Original disposition received. Restored in 2006/07 by Christian Scheffler ( Sieversdorf ). → organ
1914	1198	Oettingen in Bavaria	Catholic parish church of St. Sebastian		II / P	23	preserved, restored in 2008
1914	1211	Zwiesel	Evangelical Kreuzkirche	Image wanted	II / P	9	Romantic disposition. Rebuilt in 1965, with the gaming table turned by 90 °. Restored in 1990 and the sound was restored to its original state.
1914	1218	Eutenhofen (Dietfurt an der Altmühl)	Catholic Parish Church of the Assumption		II / P	18th
1914	1219	Zeuthen	Martin Luther Church	Image wanted	II / P	22nd	→ organ
1915	1230	augsburg	Ludwigsbau		III / P	62	Transferred to the nearby Herz-Jesu-Kirche in 1966 before the hall was demolished , since 1997 in the Visitation of Mary in Szombathely .
1916	1234	Great Koris	Evangelical Christ Church	Image wanted	II / P	13	→ organ
1921	1297	Sickershausen	Evangelical St. John's Church			13
1922	1344	Berlin-Westend	Epiphany Church	Image wanted	III / P	49	including 1 transmission. 1929 expanded to 52 registers (including 1 transmission) by the builder's workshop, destroyed in 1944 along with the church
1923	1348	Landerzhofen near Greding	Filial church of St. Thomas	Image wanted	I.	7th	According to a source from 1937
1923	1350	Bussum , Netherlands	Mariakerk or Koepelkerk		II / P	21st	Originally built for the Clemenskerk Hilversum; 2012 implementation, restoration and expansion to include Bazuin 16 ′
1924	1382	Landau in the Palatinate	City parish church of St. Maria		III / P	70 (+2 transmissions)	Preserved changed, 2010–2012 restoration by organ builders Romanus Seifert & Sohn (Kevelaer) → Organ
1924	1389	On the mountain	Church of the Amberg correctional facility		II / P	21st	Preserved unchanged
1924	1480	Passau	St. Stephen's Cathedral		V / P	206 + 2	→ Organs of St. Stephen's Cathedral . Newly built by Orgelbau Eisenbarth using 55 registers.
1927	1438	Berlin-Wilmersdorf	Holy Cross Church		II / P	35	1973 Reconstruction 2004–2008 Extension with Steinmeyer material to 52 stops on 3 manuals → organ
1929	1500	Trondheim	Nidaros Cathedral		V / P	139	Restored until 2014 by Orgelbau Kuhn AG → Orgel
1929	1501	Berlin Tegel	Sacred Heart Church		II / P	26th	→ organ
1929	1510	Memmingen	St. Joseph		IV / P	60 (+3 transmissions)	IV. Manual (Fernwerk) was planned and prepared in the console, but was no longer implemented. In 1980 the organ was replaced by an instrument made by the organ builder Georg Jann (IV / 54).
1929	1512	Memmingen	Our women		III / P	52 (+4 transmissions)	Preserved unchanged → organ
1930	1539	Berlin	originally the parish hall of the Petrus Church in Berlin-Lichterfelde, since 1966 changed to the Reformation Church in Berlin-Moabit		II / P	18 (status since 1966)	Modified in 1966 by the Stephan Orgelbau company and installed as a choir organ in the Berlin Reformation Church using four stops from a Walcker organ from 1906 (Opus 1321)
1931	1543	Altoona (Pennsylvania, USA)	Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament		IV / P	58	IV. Manual (Fernwerk) not occupied until today.
1932	1568	Munich	St. Luke Church		IV / P	72	preserved → organ
1933	1575	Athens	Christ Church		II / P	15th	receive
1935	1594	Bruckberg (Middle Franconia)	St. Martin		III / P	33	pneumatic stop and game action. receive. → organ
1935	Without opus number	Munich	woman Church		IV / P, II / P	67/26	New organ system, consisting of redesign with expansion of the main organ and new construction of the choir organ. Destroyed by bombs in World War II.
1936	1620	Munich	St. Mark		III / P	37	1949 extended to III / 54 → organ
1937	1635	Nuremberg	St. Lorenz		V / P	157	→ Organs from St. Lorenz (Nuremberg)
1937	1642	Munich	Trinity Church		III / P	35	preserved → organ
1937	1643	Sammenheim	Ev. St. Emmeram		II / P	13	behind the brochure by Caspar Moritz Nößler (1764); pneumatic pocket drawer
1937	1646	Berlin-Weissensee	Immanuel Chapel (Baptist Church)	Image wanted	II / P	30th	preserved → organ
1938	1666	Berlin-Spandau	Melanchthon Church		II / P	28	→ organ
1946	1740	Oettingen in Bavaria	Ev. Parish Church of St. Jacob		III / P	48	receive
1948/49	1772	Wurzburg	Mariannhill Abbey Church (Sacred Heart Church)		III / P	55	1989 restoration, 2011/12 renovation and expansion
1949	1759	Hochaltingen	Assumption Day	Image wanted	II / P	18th	receive
1951	1803	Gutersloh	Martin Luther Church		III / P	60
1951	1804	Kitzingen	Evangelical town church		III / P	66	→ organ
1954	1855	Wiesbaden	Kurhaus		III / P	44/48/51	1954 new building and 1988 extension by Steinmeyer, 2010 extension by Giovanni Crisostomo
1954	1856	Munich	St. John		III / P	41	preserved → organ
1954	1859	Heidelberg	Jesuit Church		III / P	55	now in the Organ Center Valley → Organ
1956	1900	Munich	St. Matthew		IV / P	65	preserved → organ
1957	1930	Ottobeuren	Basilica , St. Mary's Organ		V / P	82	2001 Restoration and reorganization to 90 / V / P by Klais → Organ
1958	1941	Hof (Saale)	St. Conrad		II / P	25th
1958	1943	Baden-Baden	Pauluskirche Weststadt	Image wanted	II / P	28
1958	1951	Partenstein (Main-Spessart)	Christ Church	Image wanted	II / P	15th	receive
1959	1965	Munich	Large concert hall of the Munich University of Music and Theater		III / P	53	2001 sold to Weißenhorn ; Installation with a new housing by the Klais company in the Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary (Weißenhorn)
1959	1975	Heilsbronn	Ev. Minster Heilsbronn		III / P	50	2004 dismantling and sale to Poland
1960	1999	Munich	Ludwig Maximilians University		II / P	29	White Rose Organ made playable again in 2012 by Markus Harder-Völkmann.
1960	2000	Hamburg	St. Michaelis Church		V / P	85	Restored by Späth in 2010 → organ
1961	2023	Aschaffenburg	Christ Church		III / P	41	→ organ
1962	2038	Munich	Hercules Hall		IV / P	75
1963	2064	Nuremberg	Meistersingerhalle		IV / P	86
1963	2071	Constancy	Pauluskirche Konstanz, wooden church	Image wanted	III / P	35
1964	2085	Neukirchen near Ansbach	St. Peter and Paul		I.	5	This positive is a typical example of the visual design of similar small instruments from this organ building company
1965	2113	Mainz	St. Stephan, Pankratius Chapel		I / P	4th	Originally built for Remscheid-Siepen
1965	2122	Mannheim	Protestant Pentecostal Church	Image wanted	II / P	22nd
1966	2148	Villingen-Schwenningen	Evangelical town church Schwenningen		III / P	47	revised and expanded around 2010
1966/1997	2152	Neustadt-Winzingen, adWeinstrasse	Martin Luther Church	Image wanted	II / P IV / P	26 44	with pipes from a Walcker organ from 1927
1967	2158	Schweinfurt	Holy Spirit Church	Image wanted	III / P	45	→ organ
1967	2163	Munich	Andreas Church		III / P	28
1967	2181	Wassertrüdingen	Trinity Church		II / P	24	Specialty: Zimbelstern
1968	2197	On the mountain	Church of the Redeemer		II / P	15th	Mechanical play and stop action. 2011 Replacement of the fifth bass 5 1/3 'by a bassoon 8'
1969/1970	2226	Frankfurt am Main	Gethsemane Church	Image wanted	II / P	23	Brochure by Hans Georg Heimel
1969/1970	2235	Hamburg	St. Andrew		III	45
1971	2246	Berlin-Gropiusstadt	Trinity Church	Image wanted	II / P	26th	→ organ
1971	2246	Weimersheim	St. Vitus		II / P	11
1972	2264	Homburg , Saar	Protestant city church		III / P	33	2005/2006 minor rescheduling and installation of a setting system by Hugo Mayer Orgelbau ( Heusweiler ).
1976		Soltau	Saint Mary of the Holy Rosary	Image wanted	II / P	13	Stand from 1976 to 2017 in the concert hall of the Windsbach Boys Choir .
1979	2341	Bad Kissingen	Protestant Church of the Redeemer		III / P	36	using original parts from 1885/1910, re-intonation 1993
1979		Vilseck	St. Aegidius (Vilseck)		II / P	27	in the case by Elias Hößler 1729
1980		Buchbrunn	Magdalenenkirche	Image wanted	III / P	13	Case: 1886
1980	2354	Heidelberg	Holy Spirit Church		III / P	62	Re-intonation by Lenter in 1998
1981	2362	Kattenhochstatt	Ev. St. Magnus		II / P	9
1982	2369	Wet cheeks	Collegiate church		II / P	30th	→ organ
1987	2380	Zurich	Tonhalle		IV / P	68	Cooperation with Detlef Kleuker , Bielefeld
1996	2395	Super tough	Parish and monastery church		II / P	26th	Case: Purucker 1716
1997	2396	Neustadt an der Weinstrasse	Martin Luther Church		IV / P	44	Last Steinmeyer organ with opus number

literature

• Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: Monument organs in the Palatinate . Evangelischer Presseverlag, Speyer 1990, ISBN 3-925536-27-2 (with selected list of works on p. 357 f.)
• Hermann Fischer : The Steinmeyer family of organ builders. Pape, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-921140-90-1 .
• Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas : 125 years of Steinmeyer organ building 1847–1972 . Self-published by Steinmeyer, Oettingen (Bavaria) 1972.
• Hermann Fischer:  Steinmeyer. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-428-11206-7 , pp. 220-222 ( digitized version ).
• Friedrich Högner: One hundred years GF Steinmeyer & Co 1847–1947 . CH Beck'sche Buchdruckerei, Nördlingen 1947.
• Alfred Reichling, Matthias Reichling: Steinmeyer organs in the Tyrolean region. Or: the path to success is often thorny . In: Acta Organologica . tape 3 . Merseburger, 2013, ISBN 978-3-87537-328-8 , pp. 299-400 .
• Ludger Stühlmeyer : A mirror of the art of instrument making. Georg Friedrich Steinmeyer. In: Curia sonans. The music history of the city of Hof. A study on the culture of Upper Franconia. Heinrichs-Verlag, Bamberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89889-155-4 , pp. 177-180, 215-224.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 , p. 402 .
2. ↑ Culture and Organ Center Altes Schloß Valley , accessed on January 6, 2018.
3. ↑ steinmeyer-orgelbau.de: homepage of the company , accessed on January 7, 2017.
4. ↑ In his travelogue, which was published the following year, he said that the organ was one of the best he had seen. He passed on the disposition, praised the beautiful intonation, then the soft and noiseless playing style and the dense bellows. Theodor Mann: From my travel folder. (Continuation). In: Alexander Wilhelm Gottschalg (Ed.): Urania . Music magazine for organ building and organ playing in particular as well as for musical theory, church, instructive singing and piano music. Volume 42, No. 4 (Erfurt 1885), pp. 51-53. Quoted from: Gerhard Walterskirchen: Organs and Organ Builders in Salzburg from the Middle Ages to the Present . Contributions to 700 years of organ building in the city of Salzburg. Dissertation . University of Salzburg, 1982, p. 164.
5. ↑ odb.at
6. ↑ Klaus Biedermann (Red.): Church and organ at St. Florin in Vaduz. Published by the municipality of Vaduz. Vaduz 2013, ISBN 978-3-905833-07-2 , p. 120 ff.
7. ↑ Kirchenmusikalische Mitteilungen 2010/1 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. (PDF; 577 kB) At: www.evkirchepfalz.de, accessed on July 28, 2012. 
8. ↑ Rudi Obermeyer: http://www.evang-kirche-eysoelden.de/hackschn.htm#orgel. Retrieved June 9, 2018 . 
9. ^ Franz Xaver Buchner: The diocese of Eichstätt. Volume I: Eichstätt 1937, p. 402
10. ↑ Detailed organ portrait ( Memento of the original from September 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. from the parish website, accessed April 7, 2013. 
11. ^ Project description on the website of Orgelbau Kuhn AG, accessed on April 9, 2013.
12. ^ Organ on the website of the Parish Soltau , accessed on September 18, 2017.

Web links

Commons : GF Steinmeyer & Co.  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the asset management Steinmeyer
• Steinmeyer-Göckel

Coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 20 ″  N , 10 ° 36 ′ 15 ″  E