Gottfried Wilhelm Baer

Gottfried Wilhelm Baer (born March 31, 1811 in Zwebendorf ; † February 8, 1873 in Niemegk ) was a German organ builder who worked in Niemegk in the 19th century.

Life

Wilhelm Baer was born as the son of the Zwebendorfer village teacher Johann Gottfried Baer. He learned the trade of organ building from master organ builder Johann Carl Friedrich Lochmann in Delitzsch . For a short time, Baer is said to have worked for Johann Friedrich Turley . In 1841 Willhelm Baer married the widow of the Niemegk instrument maker Friedrich Gottlieb Lobbes, Emma Emilie Poppenburg. In the year of his wedding, Baer also created his first work, in the village church in Rädigke. He continued Lobbes' workshop at Jusistenstrasse 4 in Niemegk and also began to instruct his stepson Friedrich Wilhelm Lobbes in the art of organ building. Lobbes is the only proven student of Baer so far. After years of partnership, Baer handed over management to Lobbes in 1870, which he held until his death in 1911.

Baer died in 1873 at the age of 61 as a result of lifelong heart and lung problems, as noted in the Niemegk church records. Wilhelm Baer's grave probably disappeared when the Niemegk cemetery was moved around 1880.

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As things stand today, Wilhelm Baer Baer created 27 works of mostly small size, mainly single-manual village organs in the vicinity of Niemegk. Only three of his instruments have two manuals and more than twelve registers. The works are still based on the classic construction and disposition of the late baroque with a transition to early romanticism .

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. Italics indicate that the organ in question is no longer preserved.

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1841	Rädigke	Evangelical village church		I / P	8th	Created in the year of his wedding. The sub-bass 16 ′ was added later. Before that, the pedal was only attached.
1845	Brachwitz	Evangelical village church		I / P	9	Mostly original.
1847	Beelitz	St. Marien and St. Nikolai (Beelitz)		II / P	18th	Extension of the existing organ by a second manual. Not received. Was replaced by Adam Eifert in 1887 .
1848	Locktow	Protestant church		I / P	10	Mostly original.
1848	Rohrbeck			I / P	10	Mostly original.
1850	Schlalach	Evangelical village church		I / P	9	Not received. The prospectus was reused for the new building.
1851	Zinna Monastery	Monastery church		II / P	19th	Restored and reconstructed by Mitteldeutscher Orgelbau A. Voigt . Today it is Baer's second largest work.
1853	Lobbies	Evangelical village church		I / P	8th	The organ has been preserved.
1853/54	Niemegk	St. John's Church		II / P	30th	Put Baer's largest organ there. It was changed a lot around 1960. Since 1997 it has been gradually restored to its original state by Karl Schuke's Berlin organ building workshop.
1854	Rietz	Evangelical village church		I / p	6th	Unplayable for a long time. Repaired in 2017.
1855	Mörz	Evangelical village church		I / P	12	Received changed
1856	Dahnsdorf	Evangelical village church		I / P	12	Restored by Alexander Schuke Potsdam Organ Builders .
1859	Phoebas	Evangelical village church		I / P	9
1859	Damsdorf	Evangelical village church		I / P	9	Received changed
1860	Preussnitz	Evangelical village church		I / P	7th	Pedal only attached at first. Later a sub-bass 16 ′ was added.
1862	Götz	Evangelical village church		I / P	12	Almost unplayable at the moment.
1863	Bochow	Evangelical village church		I / P	9	Mostly original. Overhauled in 2011 by Max Wedjelek.
1865	Mountain wood	Evangelical village church		I / P	8th	Restored by Wolter Organ Builders .
1865	Niebede	Evangelical village church		I / p	6th	Mostly original.
1866	Glienicke	Evangelical village church		I / P	10	Mostly original.
1867	Göhlsdorf	Evangelical village church		I / P	12	Mostly original. In contrast to the other works, it has split principal registers.
1868	Muddy	Evangelical village church		I / p	6th	Mostly original.
1869	Nichel	Evangelical village church		I / p	6th	Original mechanical system preserved. 3 new registers installed by Orgelbau Möller .
1870	Measurement dark	Evangelical village church		I / p	6th	Housing and remains preserved.
1872	Schwanebeck	Evangelical village church		I / P	8th	Received changed.
1872	Cammer	Evangelical village church		I / p	6th	Mostly original.

literature

• Wolf Bergelt : The Mark Brandenburg. A rediscovered organ landscape . Pape, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-921140-32-3 .
• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 .
• Hannes Ludwig, Martin Schulze: Organ manual Brandenburg . Freimut & Selbst, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-921140-32-3 .
• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Conservation and restoration of historical organs in the new federal states . Pape, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-921140-36-9 .

Web links

• Organ landscape Brandenburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Pape: Conservation and Restoration. 1993, p. 58.
2. ↑ ^{a b} orgellandschaftbrandenburg.de: Orgelbauer , seen December 7, 2012.
3. ^ Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Master Organ Builders. 1991, p. 243.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Organ in Bochow , seen December 7, 2012.
5. ^ Organ in Beelitz , seen December 7, 2012.
6. ^ Orgelbau Voigt , seen December 7, 2012.
7. ↑ schuke-berlin.de: Organ in Niemegk ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , seen December 7, 2012.