Carl Ludwig Gesell

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Organ in Oderberg Nikolaikirche

Johann Carl Ludwig Gesell (born January 24, 1809 in Potsdam , Kingdom of Prussia ; † March 7, 1867 there ) was a German organ builder in Potsdam. The well-known Schuke company emerged from his workshop in 1894 .

Life

House in Gutenbergstrasse today

Carl Ludwig Gesell learned from Friedrich Haas in Lucerne , the most important organ builder in Switzerland in the middle of the 19th century. Then he was first assistant for eight years in Gottlieb Heise's workshop at Charlottenstrasse 50 in Potsdam . In 1847/1848 he took over the company and ran it with Carl Schultze as Gesell & Schultze from 1852 . In 1856 the workshop was relocated to Junkerstrasse 36 (today Gutenbergstrasse 71). Carl Schultze left the company around 1861.

After Gesell's death in 1867, his son Carl Eduard Gesell (1845–1894) took over the company, and in 1894 his student Alexander Schuke .

Works (selection)

Today, about 30 new organs by Carl Ludwig Gesell are known, mainly in the Mittelmark . From 1852 to 1861 he built with Carl Schultze as Gesell & Schultze , then again alone with his son. Some instruments have been preserved. Organs that no longer exist are printed in italics .

New organs

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1848 Saarmund church I / P 9 first own organ, prospectus by Friedrich August Stüler , restored 1977–1979
1848 Great Glienicke church I / P 12 1929 replaced by Schuke (II / P, 12)
1848 Lasikov Village church I / P 6th first location unknown, received in 1867 in the new church in Läsikow
1848 Nennhausen church I. 4th positive
1850 Zeestow church I / P ? not received
1850 Grünefeld Village church I / P 11
1850 Börnicke , Havelland church I / P 8th
1852 Babelsberg Friedrichskirche I / P 15th 1913 expansion and pneumatic conversion to I / P, 19 by Schuke , 1917 prospect pipes handed over, 1927 zinc prospect pipes replaced, 1953 conversion and repairs by Schuke, new building planned behind the historical prospect since 2011/15
1852 Caputh church I / P 6th Replaced in 1926 by a Schuke organ with some old pipes, in 2005 new building by Hüfken with some preserved historical pipes in the Gesell prospectus
1852 Oderberg , Barnim St. Nikolai
Oderberg Nikolaikirche organ (2) .jpg
 II / P 16 with pipes and wind chest by Johann Simon Buchholz from 1792, 1953 re-arrangement by Karl Gerbig
1852 Gellmersdorf church I / p 6th
1853 Glindow church I / P 8th
1854 Bliesendorf church I / P 8th
1855 Nitzow church I / P ? receive??
1856 Bornstedt church I. 6th 1882 prospect pipes painted with ornaments, 1978 new construction by Schuke in the prospectus of Gesell
1856 Werder Holy Spirit Church II / P 17th 1906 and 1934 conversion by Schuke to II / P, 20 and pneumatic action, 1985 restoration
1856 Schmergow church I / P 7th
1857 Gramzow church I / P ? replaced the Wagner organ from 1736, 1938 new building for Schuke
1857 Potsdam Prayer room Junkerstraße 37 I. 5 Positive, in the house next to the organ workshop (today Gutenbergstrasse 72), probably destroyed
1860 Potsdam Holy Spirit Church II / P 22nd largest organ, destroyed in 1945 with the church
1860 Zabelsdorf church
1860 Golzow church I / P 8th In 1897 (or 1870?) Moved to Bergsdorf , expanded to I / P, 9
1863 Great Machnow church I / P 9
1864 Paretz Village church
Paretz village church, view towards the gallery.jpg
 1966–1969 and 1993 restored by Schuke
1865 Kladow Village church
Dorfkirche (Berlin-Kladow) Organ gallery.JPG
 I / P 8th Brochure based on a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel , restored by Karl Schuke in 1953 and 1976, 3-fold addition of the Mixtur register in 1976
1865 Potsdam Almshouse Chapel I / P 8th Destroyed in 1945
1867 Buchholz at Beelitz church I / P 9

More work

literature

  • Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau GmbH: 100 years of Alexander Schuke organ building in Potsdam . thomasius verlag - Thomas Helms, Schwerin 1994
  • Carl Ludwig Gesell . 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. 170.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog raisonné at Schuke ( Memento from April 23, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) erroneously lists buildings from 1868 after his death, the organ in 1867 in Zehlendorf was built by Schultze alone.
  2. ↑ Information Orgeldatabase (Dutch)
  3. ↑ Chronicle Runddorf Läsikow (Memento)
  4. ↑ Organ organ database, with disposition (Dutch)
  5. ↑ Information Orgeldatabase (Dutch)
  6. ↑ Grünefeld in the Havelland church organ
  7. ↑ Information organ database
  8. ↑ Information organ database
  9. ↑ Organ Friedrichskirche project for the new organ building (2015, pdf)
  10. ^ Caputh Evangelical Church in Hüfken
  11. ^ Organ Institute for Organ Research
  12. ↑ Information organ database
  13. ↑ Information organ database
  14. ↑ Information organ database
  15. ↑ Information organ database
  16. ↑ Information organ database
  17. ↑ Information organ database
  18. ↑ Information organ database
  19. ↑ Organ organ database, with disposition
  20. ^ Organ Groß Machnow Kirchenkreis, brief description
  21. ↑ organ organ index
  22. ↑ Organ Organ Database (Dutch)
  23. ↑ Information organ database
  24. ↑ Information organ database
personal data
SURNAME Gesell, Carl Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gesell, Johann Carl Ludwig Gesell (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder in Potsdam
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam , Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1867
Place of death Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia