Brothers Lehmann
Gebr. Lehmann was an organ building workshop in Straupitz in Niederlausitz between 1857 and 1898.
history
Carl Ferdinand Lehmann from Zaue is considered to be the founder of the organ building company. There is no further information about himself. Emil Lehmann repaired the organ in Groß Mehsow in 1857/1860. How he was involved in the company is not known. Gebr. Lehmann was the official name of the workshop in Straupitz, of which works between 1857 and 1898 are known. It is not known who was involved.
Johann Gottfried Lehmann (* around 1840) from Straupitz was a carpenter journeyman at the organ builder Urban Kreutzbach in Borna in Saxony from 1860–1861 and then went (on tour) to Dresden. It is not known whether he also worked for the company in Straupitz.
Works
Organ builders Lehmann are known to have built four new organs in the Straupitz area, an installation of an organ, three repairs and a new building offer. The organ in Tauche is preserved in very poor condition and the prospectus in Mittweide .
New organs
| year | place | building | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1857 | Dive | Village church | I / P | 8 (5) | received in very poor condition, not playable | |
| 1857 | Mittweide | Village church | I / P | 6th | Prospectus received, in it 1900 new work by Wilhelm Sauer | |
| 1858 | Strain | Village church | I / P | ? | 1883/84 replaced by Albert Lang | |
| 1863/64 | Desert grove | Village church | II / P | 13 | Installation of an organ in the new church for 2,100 marks, lost after 1946 | |
| 1898 | Wittmannsdorf | Village church | mentioned in Wittmanbsdorf parishes, replaced by Gebrüder Dinse in 1913 |
More work
| year | place | building | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1857/60 | Great Mehsow | Village church | I / P | Emil Lehmann carried out repairs | ||
| around 1861 | Mochow | Village church | New building offer by GL , in 1880 by another organ builder new building | |||
| 1872 | Straupitz | Village church | II / P | 24 | Change of disposition, further repairs in 1889 |
literature
- Uwe Pape , Wolfram Hackel, Albrecht Bönisch: Lehmann. In: Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner (Eds.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg and the surrounding area. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017, p. 333f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Church Dive parish