Grüneberg (organ builder)
Grüneberg was a family of organ builders in Brandenburg / Havel and Stettin . The most important was Barnim Grüneberg , who helped build the largest mechanically operated organ in Liepāja to date.
family
The members of the family who worked as organ builders were
Magdeburg and Belgard
- Philipp Wilhelm Grüneberg (* 1710; † 1777), worked in Zerbst , Magdeburg and Belgard in Pomerania, there also as an organist
Brandenburg on the Havel
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Grüneberg (* 1751; † 1808), son of Philipp Wilhelm
- Johann Carl Wilhelm Grüneberg (* 1781; † 1864), son of Johann Wilhelm, later became a piano maker
Szczecin
- Georg Friedrich Grüneberg (* 1752; † 1827), son of Philipp Wilhelm
- August Wilhelm Grüneberg (* 1787; † 1837), his son
- Barnim Grüneberg (* 1828; † 1907), his son, the most important organ builder in the Baltic Sea region in his time, around 500 new buildings and conversions
- Felix Johannes Grüneberg (* 1876; † 1945), his son, moved the workshop to Finkenwalde near Stettin in 1906 , around 300 new buildings and conversions
- Georg Grüneberg, worked temporarily with his brother Felix
Greifswald
- Barnim Grüneberg (* 1914, † 1964), son of Felix, lived in Greifswald after 1945 and carried out renovations and repairs
Company history
In 1782 Georg Friedrich Grüneberg founded a workshop in Szczecin . It was located at Große Domstraße 24 (today ul. Farna). In 1906 Felix Grüneberg moved it to Finkenwalde at Lange Straße 61 (today Zdroje, ul. Batalionów Chłopskich). In March 1945 work in the workshops was stopped.
In 2014 the Art Nouveau villa was relocated a few dozen meters to make room for a tram route. A renovation is planned.
Organs
The organ building institute B. Grüneberg in Stettin built over 800 new organs or converted them from 1854 to 1945. In the area of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg alone, 93 organs have been built by the Grüneberg company. The largest organ in Pomerania is located in the town church of St. Bartholomaei in Demmin . The largest organ in the world with a mechanical action in the Trinity Church in Libau in Latvia was expanded in 1888 by Barnim Grüneberg .
Organ of the Bagemühler Church, 1877
Grüneberg organ in the Marienkirche Stralsund
Grüneberg organ in the village church of Kummerow
literature
- Grueneberg . In: Uwe Pape , Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner (Eds.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg and the surrounding area including Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017. pp. 188–193.
- Matthias Schneider : Grüneberg, family (1710–1963) . In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern . Volume 1 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V, Volume 48.1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-20936-0 , pp. 102-104. Beginning
- Dietrich W. Prost : The organ builder family Grüneberg . In: Acta Organologica 22. 1991. pp. 105-130.
- Organ building company with steam operation Stettin-Finkenwalde B. Grüneberg . 1912. Reprint: Pape Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-921140-77-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Grüneberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Grüneberg organs in Western Pomerania
- History of the organ builder family Grüneberg Sedina.pl, with photos (Polish)
- History of the organ building establishment B. Grüneberg Grüneberg.pl, with photos (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ What happens next with the renovation of the Grüneberg Villa? Island report from February 16, 2019 (German)
- ^ About the protest against the initially planned demolition of the Art Nouveau villa in FAZ on September 21, 2010, page 34: Orgelbauers Jugendstil