Organ building company Georg Stahlhuth & Co mbH

The company Orgelbauanstalt Georg Stahlhuth & Co mbH is an organ building company in Aachen . The company has existed since 1864 with a few interruptions.

history

The origins of the Stahlhuth organ building company date back to 1864, when the workshop was founded in Hildesheim by organ builder Georg Stahlhuth (1830–1913) . A short time later, he moved the company headquarters to Aachen- Burtscheid . At a later point in time, he handed over management of the company to his son Eduard Stahlhuth († 1916). After the First World War, the son-in-law Josef Fieth (* 1871) continued the workshop together with organ builder Georges Haupt (* 1881) from 1919. On April 23, 1924, a branch was founded in Lintgen , Luxembourg , which from 1932 was continued by Georges Haupt as the independent organ building company Manufacture d'orgues luxembourgoise . On April 11, 1944, the Stahlhuth company was completely destroyed by a bomb hit. The entire management and some employees were killed in this incident. In 1948 the company was resumed under the organ builder Ulrich Fengler. Due to the massive destruction of the city of Aachen, an old church in Vicht (Stolberg) was temporarily rented as a workshop before the company was relocated to Aachen in 1952. Since 2000 the company has been managed by Alex Matz and Hans-Jürgen Luge together with Heinz-Josef Silvestrant. Matz & Luge also run an independent organ building company in Rheinmünster in Baden .

Development of the instruments

Typical game table from the Stahlhuth company from the post-war period

One of the oldest surviving Stahlhuth organs is located in Kirchherten and dates from 1876. It is still a sideways slider organ with a mechanical action. In the 1880s at the latest, the cone chests with mechanical action, as can be found on the 1886 Keyenberg instrument , were used. A short time later, the pneumatic action was introduced. During this time, some large romantic organs were built, some of which have been preserved to this day, for example in Dudelange or in the Maria Laach Abbey . In addition, the Stahlhuth Organ Builders introduced a distinctive console shape from this point in time, which was still being built regularly after the First World War. The rocker registers are designed in the form of a keyboard with white lower and black upper keys and are usually arranged above the uppermost manual, so that for the inexperienced observer it can appear as if the organ has an additional manual.

With the restart of the company after the Second World War, as in many other places, instruments with electropneumatic cone chests were initially built before the sliding chest with mechanical action mechanism was introduced again from around 1960. During this time, characteristic rocker registers with a distinctive inside corner were used. In this case, the rockers are bent so that the lower half is already horizontal. Since the lower part of the rocker register is somewhat reminiscent of a keyboard key, this look is reminiscent of the old Stahlhuth gaming tables in the style of the post-war period.

List of works (selection)

year	place	building	Manuals	register	Remarks
1871	Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler	Ursuline Monastery	II / P	16	receive
1873	Bedburg- Kirchherten	St. Martinus	II / P	21st	receive! (1494 pipes)
1883	Duisburg	(St. Joseph's Church)
1885	Esch an der Alzette (Luxembourg)	St. Joseph	II / P	33	Replaced in 1932 by a new building from Haupt from Lintgen.
1886	Erkelenz-Keyenberg	Holy cross	II / P	19th	almost completely preserved
1887	Düsseldorf - Oberbilk	St. Joseph	II / P	20th	1952 replaced by a new building by Karl Kamp
1893	Aachen - Burtscheid	St. Michael	II / P	28	In 1960 replaced by a new building from Stahlhuth.
1887	Hall	St. Martin's Basilica	III / P	39
1897	Lebach	Holy Trinity and St. Mary	II / P		Playable 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	Arlon (Belgium)	Sacre Coeur	II / P	27	2006 dorch organ building Hugo Mayer restored
1899	Viersen	St. Joseph			1934 moved to St. Notburga in Viersen; Replaced and abandoned in 1974.
1903	Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler	St. Laurence	II / P	29	In the baroque case by Balthasar Koenig (1728); 1956 remodeling by Klais; 1991 replaced by a new building using old parts by Fischer & Krämer; Prospectus received
1904	Urchin	St. Joseph	II / P	25th	1983 replaced by a new technical building from Mayer; Prospectus received
1904	Ludinghausen	St. Felizitas	II / P	25th	(Prospectus from the previous organ)
1905	Agathaberg	St. Agatha (Agathaberg)
1906	Kirchenbollenbach	St. Johann Nepomuk	II / P	17th	receive!
1909	Eat-becoming	St. Ludgerus Basilica			Replaced in 1983 by a new Klais building; Prospectus received
1910	Glees	Maria Laach Abbey Church	III / P	66	2010 new case by organ builder Klais
1910	Aachen	St. Alexius Monastery Church	II / P	18th
1912	Dudelange / Luxembourg	Parish Church of St. Martin			Expanded in 1962; 2010 Restoration by organ builder Jann. Today IV / 82
1912	Ottmarsheim	Monastery church
1913	Niederwenigern	St. Mauritius	II / P	33
1914	Limpertsberg	Monastery church of the Dominican Sisters			Newly installed since 2010 in the St. Willibrord Church in Wilwerwiltz
1914	St. Wendel	Mission house church Maria Queen of Angels	II / P	30th	1965 replaced by a new technical building from Mayer; Prospectus received
1916	Kirspenich	St. Bartholomew
1916	Manternach	Saint-Brice	II / P	12	Original received
1921	Holtz (Rambruch)	St. Nicolas	II / P	8th	Original received.
1923	Luxembourg	Saint Alphonse	III / P	50	Using the case and some stops of the previous organ by Breidenfeld (1867); Various later conversions
1923	Vaals	St. Paulus-Kerk	II / P	32
1925	Völklingen	St. Eligius	III / P	53	1983 merged into a technical new building by the Klais company; Prospectus complete and disposition largely received.
1925	Kruft	St. Dionysius	III / P	42	Unplayable but completely preserved.
1926	Mainz-Mombach	St. Nicholas	II / P	18th
1928	Rivenich	St. Briktius	II / P	11	original received
1930	Saarbrücken	Sacred Heart Church	III / P	34	1950 rearrangement by Späth; 1992 new building by Mayer using a few pipes
1928	Rodange (Luxembourg)	St. Amalberga			Delivered from the Haupt branch in Lintgen; First new organ from the branch in Lintgen.
1930	Clausen (Luxembourg)	St. Kunigunde	II / P	21st	Supplied by the Haupt branch in Lintgen, using parts of the previous organ built by Breidenfeld (1875). Currently unplayable
1930	Oberkorn (Luxembourg)	St. Stephen	II / P	19th	Supplied by the Haupt branch in Lintgen, using parts of the previous organ built by Breidenfeld (1875). Currently unplayable
1930	Zolwer (Luxembourg)	St. Nicolas	II / P	14th	Erected by the Haupt branch from Lintgen using parts of the previous organ from Voit (1900); 1978 Conversion and electrification by Herbert Schmidt; 2005 Transfer to Quiberon (Brittany) in the parish church of Notre Dame de Locmaria
1931	Schouweiler (Luxembourg)	St. Lambertus	I.	4th	Delivered from the Haupt branch in Lintgen; The organ was initially located as an interim instrument in St. Joseph Esch-sur-Alzette and was moved to Schouweiler in 1932 after the main organ there was built.
1931	Berburg (Luxembourg)	St. Lambertus	II / P	14th	Delivered from the Haupt branch in Lintgen
1931	Sotzweiler	St. Mauritius	II / P	16	Initially only partial construction with II / 6; Delivered from the Haupt branch in Lintgen
1931	Beckerich (Luxembourg)	St. Peter and Paul	II / P	16	Delivered from the Haupt branch in Lintgen
1931	Altwies (Mondorf-lès-Bains)	St. Benedict	II / P	7th	Delivered from the Haupt branch in Lintgen
1934	Kelz	St. Michael	II / P	20th	receive
1934	Oberkrüchten	St. Martin	II / P	17th
1937	Kückhoven	St. Servatius	II / P	25th	Destroyed in World War II.
1939	Aachen - Burtscheid	Heart of jesus	III / P	34
1940	Aachen	St. Corpus Christi	III / P	36
1941	Düsseldorf - Friedrichstadt	St. Anthony	III / P	50	Badly damaged in 1943 and replaced by a new building by Krell in 1957
1952	Rott (Roetgen)	St. Anthony	II / P	11
1954	Aachen	Episcopal Academy	II / P	18th
1955	Aachen	Auditorium of the University of Education (today RWTH Computer Science Center)	III / P	31	receive
1957	Aachen	St. Mary	III / P	27	1983 reused in the new building by Stahlhuth.
1958	Aachen	Anna Church	II / P	19th	Mechanical slider drawer; Replaced in 1994 by a new Weimbs building.
1959	Aachen	St. Michael	II / P	22nd	To date only built as a partial extension. The plan was III / 30
1960	Aachen - Burtscheid	St. Michael	III / P	29	Replaced in 1999 by a new building from Weimbs.
1964	Rösrath	St. Mary	II / P	23	2015/16 Replaced by a new technical building from Mayer
1964	Duisburg - Mediterranean rich	Protestant church	III / P	43
1965	Aachen	St. Jacob	III / P	36
1966	Kaldenkirchen	Court Church	II / P	16
1967	Cologne - Holweide	St. Mary of the Assumption, altar organ	II / P	18th
1976	Kückhoven	St. Servatius	II / P	18th
1978	Hehler (Schwalmtal)	St. Mary of the Assumption	II / P	19th
1980	Aachen - Burtscheid	Episcopal Pius-Gymnasium Aachen	II / P	21st
1980	Düsseldorf - Hassels	Annunciation Church	II / P	15th	2012 Due to the church closure, sold to Bialystok (Poland) and there in the church bł. Bolesławy Lament put up.
1983	Aachen	St. Mary	II / P	25th	2020 restructuring of the organ by the Stahlhuth company
1986	New stomach	Assumption Day	II / P	26th	In the new building, the organ pipes from the broken instrument in St. Benedikt Düsseldorf-Heerdt were reused.
1987	Scherberg	St. Mary	II / P	17th	2018 Sold to Herzogenrath due to the church closure and installed there in the Church of the Heart of Jesus.
1987	Aachen - Burtscheid	Immanuel Church	II / P	11
1989	Aachen - hair	Christ Church	II / P	18th
1990	Cologne - Sürth	Church of the Resurrection	II / P	15th
2005	Mausbach (Stolberg)	St. Mark	II / P	26th