Georg Stahlhuth

Georg, Ludwig Georg and Eduard Stahlhuth

Georg Stahlhuth (born November 14, 1830 in Hildesheim ; † February 9, 1913, presumably in Aachen ) was a German organ builder and founder of the Georg Stahlhuth & Co mbH organ building company .

life and work

He first learned the basics of organ building from his father Wilhelm in Hildesheim and then apprenticed to Joseph Merklin in Brussels from 1849 to 1853 . After that he started his own business in Hildesheim, but in 1864 he moved his organ building workshop to Burtscheid near Aachen . Together with his son Eduard, he built 170 organs in Aachen and the surrounding area, but also in Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, England, Ireland and Denmark. The peculiarity of the organs was their soft, romantic intonation based on French and English models. Since this style no longer corresponded to the taste of the time of the reconstruction after 1950, many of these organs were not preserved, but replaced by new buildings. After his death, his son was only able to continue running the company for three years because he died in 1916, and his grandchild, Ludwig, died in the First World War .

The Georg Stahlhuth Orgelbauanstalt company continues to exist with new owners in Aachen . However, the company archive with the factory premises was lost during the Second World War during the last air raid on April 11, 1944. The then managing director and his wife, who kept fire watch , were also killed along with other employees.

Works (incomplete)

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year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1873	Bedburg- Kirchherten	St. Martinus				(1494 pipes)
1883	Duisburg	(St. Joseph's Church)
1886	Erkelenz-Keyenberg	Holy cross			19th	almost completely preserved
1887	Hall	St. Martin's Basilica		III / P	39
1897	Lebach	Holy Trinity and St. Mary		II / P		until 1969, prospectus received
1898	Wuppertal-Beyenburg	St. Mary Magdalene Monastery Church				new plant in historical prospectus, replaced by a new building in 1970
1898	Erkelenz-Venrath	St. Valentine		II / P		The case of the Stahlhuth organ reused in 1991 when the organ was rebuilt
1899	Viersen	St. Joseph
1904	Ludinghausen	St. Felizitas		II / P	25th	(Prospectus from the previous organ)
1905 (?)	Kirchenbollenbach ( Idar-Oberstein )					(Original is being restored)
1905	Wipperfürth- Agathaberg	Parish Church of St. Agatha
1909	Eat-becoming	St. Ludgerus Basilica				(Brochure still used in the new Klais organ from 1983)
1910	Glees	Maria Laach Abbey Church		III / P	66	(restored)
1912	Dudelange / Luxembourg	Parish Church of St. Martin				together with his son Eduard Stahlhuth; see organ of the parish church St. Martin (Dudelange)
1912	Erkelenz-Keyenberg	Holy cross				Dismantling of the organ from 1886 due to renovation and partial rebuilding of the church. Rebuilt in 1914 on the newly built gallery.
1912	Ottmarsheim	Monastery church

literature

• The Dudelange church and its Stahlhuth organ . Dudelange, Luxemburg 2002 (With articles on church art, organ building and organ music, as well as a monograph on the organ builders Georg and Eduard Stahlhut).

Web links

• Georg Stahlhuth Organ Building Institute

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rainer Merkens, Hans-Josef Pisters: Parish Church and Parish. Heilig-Kreuz in Keyenberg from 714 to 2014, writings of the Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande eV vol. 28, Erkelenz 2014, p. 94 ff
2. ^ Venrath parish archives, organ building files
3. ↑ Church music in St. Felizitas (www.kirchenmusik-felizitas.de). Retrieved April 29, 2017 . 
4. ^ Rainer Merkens, Hans-Josef Pisters: Parish Church and Parish. Heilig-Kreuz in Keyenberg from 714 to 2014, writings of the Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande eV vol. 28, Erkelenz 2014, p. 49 ff