Hillebrand brothers organ building

Hillebrand brothers organ building
legal form	GmbH & Co. KG
founding	1948
Seat	Altwarmbüchen
management	Martin Hillebrand ( Managing Director )
Branch	Musical instrument making

Gebrüder Hillebrand Orgelbau is an organ building company in Altwarmbüchen , which has made a name for itself in Northern Germany through the consistent restoration of historical organs. In addition, the company has created new buildings, which are often historicizing are based on models of the North German Baroque organ.

history

The family company was founded by Hermann Hillebrand (* 1904 in Hanover ; † 1966 there). He learned organ building in Hanover with Lothar Wetzel (* May 16, 1888; † November 25, 1964) and after the Second World War passed the master's examination with Emil Hammer Organ Building. In 1948 Hermann Hillebrand went into business for himself. The son Harry Hillebrand (born November 1, 1930; † December 24, 1987) apprenticed at Orgelbau Romanus Seifert & Sohn, in order to then immerse himself in his father's company. It was there that his brother Guntram Hillebrand (1934–1991) learned the trade. After the death of Hermann Hillebrand, both brothers took over the company, in which Harry was managing director until 1987 and Guntram until 1991. Since 1978 the company has been operating under the name “Gebrüder Hillebrand GmbH Orgelbau KG”. Since 1992, master organ builder Martin Hillebrand (* 1960) has been managing director, who initially worked in his father's company, then deepened his knowledge and skills with various organ builders ( Metzler Orgelbau , Orgelbau Kuhn , Marcussen & Søn , Orgelbau Vleugels , Carl Giesecke ). His son Nikolas works as a fourth generation organ builder in the family business. The workshop received the Lower Saxony Culture Prize in 1986. She was a project partner in the completed research project "Development of measures to reduce lead corrosion on organ pipes from the 17th and 18th centuries".

Works (selection)

Hermann Hillebrand created over 90 organs, the workshop "Gebrüder Hillebrand GmbH Orgelbau KG" created more than 120 new structures by 2011. In total, the list of works, including restorations, includes over 600 projects.

The size of the instruments is indicated in the fifth column by the number of manuals and the number of sounding registers in the sixth column. A capital “P” stands for an independent pedal, a lowercase “p” for an attached pedal.

New buildings

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1950	Baltrum	Old island church		I.	4th	Series positive. 1970–2004 in Emden cemetery chapel, transferred to Baltrum in 2004 by Martin ter Haseborg
1954	Torment	Holy angel		III / P	31	electric cone shop
1956	Hanover-Oberricklingen	St. Thomas		II / P	28
1957	Hanover-Kleefeld	Petrikirche		III / P	39
1958	Hanover-Nordstadt	Christ Church		IV / P	55	The folding doors in the breastwork serve as sills.
1960	Hanover midfield	St. Eugenius		II / P	22nd
1960-1961	Hanover-Sahlkamp	Epiphany Church		II / P	22nd
1962	Timmel	Peter and Paul Church		II / P	18th	Behind the historical prospectus by Johann Friedrich Constabel (1740)
1962	Lauenstein	St. Benedict		III / P	30th
1962	Bülten (Ilsede)	St. Mark's Church		II / P	14th
1962-1963	Bremervörde	St. Liborius		III / P	32	Behind the (unbuilt) historical prospectus by Erasmus Bielfeldt (1728–1733)
1963	Hanover list	Gethsemane Church		II / P	20th
1964	Hildesheim	Holy Cross Church		III / P	35
1964	Barnstorf	St. Vitus Church		II / P	20th	→ organ
1963-1965	Empty	Christ Church		II / P	17th
1965	Vinnhorst	Andreas Church		II / P	23
1962-1966	Steyerberg	St. Catherine's		II / P	16	Extension of the organ by Christian Vater (1737/1738)
1965-1966	Burgdorf	St. Pancras		III / p	31	Behind the historical prospectus by Hans Scherer the Elder (1585); based on the original disposition
1965/1966 and 1995	Langenhagen	Elisabeth Church		III / P		New building in two construction phases: 1995 Rückpositiv added
1966	Uelzen	St. Petri		II / P	23
1966 and 2007	Oberursel	Christ Church		III / P	36	New building behind the prospectus from EF Walcker & Cie. (1914); 2007 revision, 3 registers added and 2 replaced
1966	Middletown, Connecticut	St. Paul's Lutheran Church		II / P	20th
1966	Kronberg	Johanniskirche		III / P	32	Behind the historic case of the Stumm organ (around 1800)
1967	Achim	St. Lawrence Church		II / P
1967	New Haven (Connecticut)	United Church on the Green		III / P	42	1999 Renewal and rescheduling by A. David Moore Co.
1967 and 1982	Sottrum	St. George		II / P	22nd	New building in two sections; 1994 overhaul
1967 and 2019	Hanover-Herrenhausen	Mansions Church		III / P	47	Using 5 stops from the previous organ by P. Furtwängler & Hammer (1906); 1993 restoration by Hillebrand with new reeds, further redesign and new typesetting system; 2019 Extension by a romantic swell by Hillebrand
1967	Bremerhaven	Christ Church		III / P	40	1997 Renovation and small redesign by Alfred Führer
1968	Bülkau	St. John the Baptist		II / P	22nd	Behind the historical prospectus by Arp Schnitger (1676)
1968	Helmstedt	St. Walpurgis		II / P	23
1968	Verden (Aller)	Verden Cathedral		III / P	43	→ organ
from 1968	Braunschweig- Querum	St. Mary		III / P	34	→ organ
1966-1969	Victorbur	St. Victor Church		II / p	15th	Behind the historical prospectus by Johann Gottfried Rohlfs (1818–1819)
1969	Pewsum	Nicolai Church		II / P	20th
1969	Liebenau	St. Laurentius Church		II / P	20th	Behind historical prospectus from 17th century
1969	Luneburg	Monastery Lüne (monastery church)		II / P	20th	In a historical case behind the historical prospectus by Jonas Weigel (?) (1645)
1970	Dortmund	St. Martin		III / P	36
1970	Wolfenbüttel	St. Thomas Church		II / P	21st	Electrified in 1999 by Wilhelm Sauer and supplemented with digital registers on the third manual and second console in the chancel
1971	Büdingen	Marienkirche		II / P	29	two stops that were initially vacant were added later, → organ
1969-1972	Braunschweig	St. Martini		III / P	45	Behind the historical prospectus by Jonas Weigel, Franz Theodor Kretschmar and Friedrich Stellwagen (1630); Rückpositiv by Otto Dutkowski (1957)
1972	Hanover-Bothfeld	Holy Spirit		II / P	25th
1972	Seesen	Mary Queen		II / P	14th	→ organ
1970-1973	Braunschweig	St. Andrew		II / P	22nd
1971-1973	Engerhafe	St. John the Baptist		I / p	9	Behind the historical prospectus by Hinrich Just Müller (1774–1775); In the course of the new building, a second manual for a breastwork was installed
1973	Bexhövede	John the Baptist		II / P	about 10
1973	Lauterbach (Hesse)	City Church		III / P	35 (39)	Behind historical prospectus from (1767); 4 registers are prepared for expansion; → organ
1963 and 1974	Sandstedt	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	16	Behind the historical prospectus by Berendt Hus (1671/1680); 1963 main work, 1974 pedal
1974	Buxtehude	St. Petri , choir organ		I / P	7th	from the outside based on the Rückpositiv of the organ of St. Cosmae et Damiani (Stade)
1974	Luneburg	St. Michaelis		II / P	18th	Revision and replacement of some registers → organ
1974	Hanover-Döhren	Church of the Resurrection		II / P	22nd
1971-1975	Hanover-Hainholz	St. Mary		II / P	22nd
1975	Bissendorf (Wedemark)	St. Michaelis Church		II / P	15th
1976	Nice bog	Church of St. Catherine		II / P	8th	→ organ
1976	Stooping	Collegiate church		II / P	19th
1975-1977	Hanover-Vahrenheide	St. Francis		II / P	23	Erected from 1970 to 1978 in three construction phases
1977	Edewecht	St. Nicholas Church		II / P	14th	→ organ
1978	Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg	St. Maximilian Kolbe		II / P	23	2015 Church and organ sold
1978	Hildesheim	St. Mauritius		III / P	33	Behind the historical prospectus by Martin Vater (1687)
1978/1982	Hanover list	Johanneskirche		II / P	12	2014 sold to Heuchelheim, Maria Frieden (photo)
1980	Barsinghausen	Marienkirche		II / P	22nd
1980	Lübeck	Church of the Resurrection		II / P	15th
1980-1981	Plate	St. Mary		II / P	16	Behind the historical prospectus from the 16th century by an unknown organ builder
1981	Vinnhorst	St. Hedwig		II / P	15th
1982	Alsfeld	Walpurgis Church		II / P	26th	With partial use of the historical prospectus in the main work (1720) → organ
1962-1984, 2004	Dorum	St. Urbanus Church		II / P	22nd	New building in three construction phases behind the historical prospectus by Johann Matthias Schreiber (1765–1770); 2004 overhaul and change of disposition
1985	Osterode am Harz	St. John the Baptist		II / P	20th
1974-1985	Hanover list	Matthew Church		III / P	38	Extension of the previous organ by Emil Hammer (1951)
1979, 1982-1985	Danzig	Marienkirche		III / P	46	Behind the historical prospectus by Merten Friese (1625–1629, originally built for the Johanneskirche ; moved out in 1943) → Organ → Organ
1984-1986	Steenfelde	Steenfeld Church		II / P	12	Behind the historical prospectus by Gerd Sieben Janssen (1858–59)
1985-1986	Bützfleth	St. Nicolai Church		II / P	22nd	Reconstruction behind the historical case by Johann Werner Klapmeyer (1703–1705)
1986	Hannover-Oststadt	Trinity Church		III / P	37	Oriented towards works by Andreas Silbermann
1986	Muenster	Church of the Resurrection		II / P	15th
1974 and 1987	Horneburg	Church of Our Lady		II / P	18th	Behind the historical prospectus by Johann Matthias Schreiber or Johann Andreas Zuberbier (1755)
1980–1985/1988	Rhaude	Rhauder Church		I / P	9	Behind the historical prospectus by Johann Friedrich Constabel (1756)
1987	Sighted	St. Mary		II / P	15th
1988	Frankfurt-Eschersheim	Andreas Church		II / P	23
1988	Rendsburg	Marienkirche , choir organ		II / p	7th
1988	Stade	Holy Spirit Church		II / P	23	→ organ
1988	Munich	Ev.-ref. Neuperlach Church		II / P	11
1986-1988	Nesse	St. Mary's Church		I / P	9
1989	Hanover-Kirchrode	Jakobikirche		II / P	24	Oriented towards Gottfried Silbermann
1991	Meppen	Provost church of St. Vitus		III / P	38
1971 / 1993-1994	Bramstedt	St. Jacobi Church		II / P	17th	Behind the historical prospectus by Marcus Hinrich Petersen (1787)
1993	Hörnum	St. Thomas (Hörnum)		II / P	20th
1994/1995	Scharnebeck	St. Mary's Monastery Church		II / P	17th	Construction of a new organ in the baroque style after the old Röver organ was removed. The main work behind the rebuilt historical prospectus by GL Graff vd Schulenbourg (1754), the case for the chest and pedal work (behind the main work) and the action mechanism are new. Historical lengths, construction methods and a well-tempered atmosphere are based on the north German organ baroque. → Organ of St. Marien (Scharnebeck)
1996	Delmenhorst	St. Christopher		II / P	20th	New building in classic construction with main work, Rückpositiv, pedal; a vacant register, unevenly floating temperature
1996	Bad Bodenteich	St. Petri Church		II / P	29	Behind the historical prospectus by Balthasar Conrad Euler , with swell
1997	Norderstedt	St. Vicelin		II / P	9	New building, 2 further registers are prepared for expansion, register in the II. Manual largely transmissions from the 1st manual, an extension in the pedal. The artistic work on the housing was made by the artist Jan Koblasa , who also designed the winged altar in the church.
1997/1998	Warsaw	Trinity Church		II / P	30th
1971 and 2000	Oederquart	St. Johannis		II / P	17th	New building behind historic housing by Arp Schnitger (1678–1682)
2003	Ring rings	St. Martin's Church		II / P	16	As a replacement for the organ by August von Werder (1846, I / P / 10), which burned down in 1999
2003	Leezen (Holstein)	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	15th	New building in the style of Heinrich Schaper
2005	Vechelde	Catholic Church of St. Gereon		II / P	approx. 12	In 2013 an oboe 8 ′ was added to the swell
2007	Fischbeck	Fischbeck Collegiate Church		II / P	32	Reconstructing new building behind the historical prospect by Johann Adam Berner (1734–1736); Disposition and style based on Berner, but expanded by five registers
2008	Einbeck	Cathedral Church of St. Alexandri		II / P	37	New building behind a neo-Gothic prospect from 1865/1866
2018	Heisede	St. Nikolai		II / P	15th	New building behind the baroque prospect (around 1770) by Johann Conrad Müller

Restorations

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1972	Egestorf	St. Stephen		II / P	17th	Organ by Philipp Furtwängler & Sons (1867)
1973 and 1986	Strackholt	St. Barbara Church		II / P	23	Organ by Gerhard Janssen Schmid (1798–99) and Hans Wolf (1971) → Organ
1974–1992, 2015	Ringelheim	St. Abdon and Sennen		II / P	32	Restoration in several sections of the organ by Andreas Schweimb (1696) and Johann Jacob John (1700)
1975-1976	Carolinensiel	Carolinensieler Church		II / p	11	Organ by Hinrich Just Müller (1780–1781)
1977 and 2011	Algermissen	St. Matthew		II / p		Organ by Johann Georg Müller (1720s)
1977-1988	Lübeck	Jakobikirche		III / P	31	Organ by Friedrich Stellwagen (1636–37) → Organs of the Jakobikirche (Lübeck)
1978-1981	Gronau (Leine)	Matthäikirche		III / P	58	Organ by Philipp Furtwängler & Sons (1859/60)
1983	Neuendorf b. Elmshorn	Trinity Church		II / P	21st	Organ by Johann Matthias Schreiber (1757)
1980-1985	Grasberg	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	21st	Organ by Arp Schnitger (1693–94) → Organ of the Grasberg Church
1983-1985	Wiegboldsbur	Wibadi Church		I / p	8th	Organ by Wilhelm Eilert Schmid (1818-19)
1987-1989	Pellworm	Old church		II / P	24	Organ by Arp Schnitger (1710–11) → Organ of the Old Church (Pellworm)
1989	Mehrum	Village church		I / P	15th	Organ by Johann Conrad Müller (1773)
1988-1991	Gartow	St. George Church		II / P	23	Organ by Johann Matthias Hagelstein (1740)
1991	Hilligsfeld	Martini Church		II / P	14th	Organ by Ernst Wilhelm Meyer (1839); Extension by a trumpet 8 ′ on a Meyer's empty loop
1991	Milk shrimps	St. Marien and Pankratius		II / P	22nd	Organ by Berendt Hus (1658–59)
1991	Steinau	St. John the Baptist		II / P	19th	Organ by Johann Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy (1839)
1992	Bergen on the stupid	Pauluskirche		II / P	16	Organ by Eduard Meyer (1842) largely preserved
1989–1992 and 2009	Goslar	Grauhof Monastery		III / P	42	Organ by Christoph Treutman the Elder Ä. (1734–37)
1992-1995	Holßel	Ev.-ref. church		I / p	7th	Organ by Dirk Lohman (1756)
1999-2000	Wispenstein	St. Urbani Church				Organ by Wilhelm Schmerbach the Elder M. (1821)
2000	Welsede	Manor chapel		I.	8th	Organ by Johann Georg Müller (1735); Revision of the action and the trumpet 8 ′
2000	Clenze	St. Bartholomew		II / P	18th	Organ by Johann Andreas Engelhardt (1856), which was almost completely renewed by Karl Schuke (1968–70)
2000	Gifhorn	St. Nicolai Church		II / P	24	Organ by Christian Vater (1748)
2000	Wollershausen	St. Mary		II / P	16	Organ by Johann Andreas Engelhardt (1851)
2003	Goettingen	St. Mary		III / P	44	Organ by P. Furtwängler & Hammer (1925–1926) → Organ of the parish church of St. Marien (Göttingen)
2003	Kirchweyhe	George's Church		I / P	10	Organ by Friedrich Altdorf (1856)
2003	Hamelin	Munster St. Boniface		III / P	28	Major overhaul of the organ by Marcussen & Søn (1980), replacement of a register
1970–1972 / 74 and 2004	Osterholz-Scharmbeck	St. Willehadi		II / P	23	Organ by Erasmus Bielfeldt (1731–1734 and 1745) → Organ
2004	Walsrode	City Church		II / P	26th	Organ by Ernst Wilhelm Meyer & Sons (1847–49) (1849)
2005-2006	Rumbeck (Arnsberg)	Rumbeck Abbey		II / P	15th	Organ by Hinrich Klausing (1700)
2008-2009	Osterode am Harz	St. Mary's Church		I / P	8th	Organ by an unknown organ builder (1724)
2008-2009	Elze	Peter and Paul Church		II / P	23	Organ by Conrad Euler (1827)
2011	Wrisberg woods	St. Martin		II / P	16	Organ by Johann Georg Müller (1704)
2012	Lüthorst	St. Magnus		II / P	17th	Organ by Philipp Furtwängler (1850)
2016	Hildesheim-Marienrode	Ev. Church of St. Cosmas and Damian		I / P	11	Organ by Anton Heinrich Maasberg (1795)
2017	Stockheim	Ev. church		II / P	16	Organ by Carl Giesecke (1859)
2017	Odagsen	St. Pankratii		II / P	15th	Organ by Eduard Meyer (1861)
2017	Gronau (Leine)	Matthäikirche		III / P	58	Largest Philipp Furtwängler organ (1859/1860)
2018	Nienstedt am Harz	St. Martin		I / P	11	Organ by Joh.Daniel Ebeling (1813)

literature

• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 .
• Martin Hillebrand: Wilhelm Schmerbach organ 1821–2000. St. Urbani Church Imsen-Wispenstein . Ed .: Church council Imsen-Wispensten. Alfeld 2000.
• Ralph Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-929902-62-1 .
• Uwe Pape : Organ workshops and organ builders in Germany from 1945 to 2004 . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2004.
• Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 .

Web links

Commons : Gebrüder Hillebrand Orgelbau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kurt Pages: Pipe organs in Hanover
• exaudi! - Scharnebeck baroque organ

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nickles: Organ inventory , p. 144.
2. ^ Pape: Organ building workshops and organ builders in Germany . 2004, p. 18.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of January 6, 2015: Restoration of St. Nikolai has started , accessed on April 13, 2019.
4. ^ Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Master Organ Builders . 1991, p. 207.
5. ↑ Development of measures to reduce lead corrosion on organ pipes from the 17th and 18th centuries. Official material testing institute of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Leibniz Institute for Material-Oriented Technologies , accessed on May 18, 2019 . 
6. ^ Organ in New Haven , accessed April 13, 2019.
7. ↑ NOMINE e. V .: Organ in Bergen , accessed on April 13, 2019.
8. ↑ NOMINE e. V .: Clenze, St. Bartholomäus , accessed on April 13, 2019.
9. ↑ Hinrich Klausing-Orgel Arnsberg-Rumbeck , accessed on April 13, 2019.
10. ↑ Dorothea Wagner: "Nothing works without air" - HNA interview with the restored organ in the Stöckheim church , accessed on April 13, 2019 (PDF).
11. ↑ German Foundation for Monument Protection: Foundation supports the 150-year-old Meyer organ in the St. Pankratius Church in Einbeck. Retrieved April 13, 2019.