H. Koulen & Son
H. Koulen & Sohn was a German organ builder that built around 200 organs in Alsace and southern Germany between 1871 and 1921 .
Heinrich Koulen
The company was founded by Heinrich Koulen (born June 23, 1845 in Waldfeucht , † March 14, 1919 in Augsburg ). He was the son of the organ builder Wilhelm Koulen (1801–1885), who had his workshop in Waldfeucht. After his home apprenticeship he went to Paris to study with Joseph Merklin . In 1871/72 he founded his own organ building company in Strasbourg . In 1891 he opened a branch in Oppenau , which in 1895 became the company's headquarters after closing down in Strasbourg. The last work in Alsace was the reconstruction of the Andreas Silbermann organ in the Strasbourg cathedral , which was completed in 1897. This work was controversial and was dismantled after only 10 years.
After the construction of the great organ in St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg in 1903, a branch was founded in Augsburg in 1905.
Max Koulen
Max Koulen (born October 10, 1876 in Strasbourg , † September 30, 1948 in Freiburg ), Heinrich's son, became a partner in 1909.
In 1914 the company moved to a larger workshop in Zweibrückenstrasse in Augsburg- Pfersee . In 1915 Heinrich Koulen left the joint company. In 1917 the company in Oppenau was sold. Due to the difficult economic situation, operations in Augsburg were closed in 1921.
Max Koulen became head of the organ building department at M. Welte & Sons in Freiburg im Breisgau . When the construction of the organ for the Freiburg Minster was put out to tender in 1927, Koulen's reputation was one of the reasons why M. Welte & Sons received the order. At the beginning of 1930, the organ work in the Freiburg Minster was completed with long-ship organ (III / 50), high-pressure organ (8 registers) and remote work (9 registers). The Walcker choir organ (from 1881 with II / 34) could also be controlled from the new console. In 1936 there was another major renovation: the long-ship organ was reduced to 14 registers, a new main organ was created on the northern transept gallery with 59 registers and the remote control was expanded to 29 registers (Michael’s organ).
Organs
Koulen first built a cone shop . In 1884 he led the first in Alsace pneumatic and 1888 electro-pneumatic action one. Father and son were inventive minds and excellent voicers ; in particular her art of intoning reed voices was internationally recognized. Émile Rupp saw them as protagonists of the Alsatian-New German organ building.
List of works (excerpt)
year | opus | place | building | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
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1879 | Hall | St. Bartélémy | III / P | 26th | Replaced by a new building in 1923 | ||
1880 | Andlau | St-Pierre-et-Paul | II / P | 28 | receive | ||
1884 | Strasbourg | Nikolaikirche | III / P | 33 | Reconstruction of the Andreas Silbermann organ, preserved changed | ||
1884 | Strasbourg | Aurelia Church | II / P | 23 | New building using some Andreas Silbermann registers 1952 New building by Ernest Muhleisen with III / 52 |
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1885 | Zinswiller | prot. church | first pneumatic organ in Alsace | ||||
1888 | Strasbourg | St. Barbara | III / P | 36 | first el.-pneum. Organ in Alsace | ||
1893 | Prague | Emmaus Monastery | III / P | 62 | |||
1894 | Strasbourg | Magdalenenkirche | III / P | 30th | |||
1897 | Strasbourg | Strasbourg Cathedral | not received | ||||
1901 | 103 | Unterreitnau | St. Urban and New Years Eve | II / P | 16 | 2012 in such bad condition that an electrical device was used instead of the organ | |
1902 | 110 | Piesport | St. Michael | II / P | 16 | Disposition neo-baroque | |
1903 | 112 | augsburg | Ortisei and Afra | III / P | 73 | 1982 New building by Orgelbau Sandtner . → organ |
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1904 | Mettlach | St. Lutwinus | II / P | 27 | 1956 New building by Haerpfer & Erman using some registers. | ||
1907 | 142 | Aretsried | St. Pancras | II / P | 15th | ||
1907 | 146 | Anhofen (Bibertal) | St. Maria Immaculata | I / P | 7th | ||
1908 | 150 | Scheyern | Monastery Church of the Holy Cross and the Assumption of Mary | IV / P | 60 | 1979 New building by Georg Jann → Organs of the Scheyern Basilica |
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1909 | 158 | Augsburg -Pfersee | Heart Jesus Church | III / P | 44 | replaces → organ |
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1909 | Weilheim in Upper Bavaria | Assumption Day | II / P | 36 | Replaced in 1970 by a new building by Max Offner | ||
1911 | 170 | augsburg | St. Michael in the Herman Cemetery | II / P | 8th | In the general sill; receive | |
1911 | 174 | Landsberg am Lech | Ursuline Monastery | II / P | 17th | Restored in 2009 by Orgelbau Vleugels | |
1911 | 176 | Hausham | St. Anton | II / P | 32 | Restored in 2013 by Orgelbau Vleugels | |
1912 | augsburg | St. Sebastian | III / P | 43 | in use | ||
1913 | augsburg | Catholic Holy Cross Church | II / P | 33 | Destroyed in 1944. | ||
1914 | 190 | Landshut | St. Martin | III / P | 70 | Dismantled in 1983. Now in the Valley Organ Center . |
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1914 | 191 | Market forest | Assumption Day | II / P | 23 | receive | |
1915 | Polling | Polling Monastery | II / P | 31 | replaced | ||
1915 | Bad Woerishofen | Wörishofen Monastery | II / P | 22nd | |||
1916 | Altötting | St. Anne's Basilica | III / P | 62 | 1976 New building by Gerhard Schmid , individual stops preserved → organ |
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1917 | 203 | Rohrenfels | Visitation of the Virgin Mary | II / P | 19th | receive | |
1917 | augsburg | synagogue | II / P | 32 | Transferred to Weßling in 1940 . | ||
1919 | 207 | Sulzberg | II / P | 26th | received changed | ||
1930/1936 | Freiburg in Breisgau | Freiburg Minster | III / P | 107 | replaced by various new buildings |
literature
- Hermann Fischer and Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Heinrichshofen-Bücher, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 .
- Heinz J. Koulen, Sixtus Lampl : The Organ Builders Koulen: Pioneers in a Time of Change . Schloßverlag Valley, Valley 2006, ISBN 978-3-932055-02-7 .
Individual evidence
- ^ W. Widmann: The Strasbourg cathedral organ and its critics In: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau, Vol .: 19, Leipzig, 1899, pp. 784–786, 816-817
- ^ E. Rupp: The great organ of the St. Ulrichs Church in Augsburg In: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau, Vol .: 24, Leipzig, 1903, pp. 239–243
- ^ E. Rupp: The organ of the future In: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau, Vol .: 27, Leipzig 1907, p. 404.
- ^ Heinz J. Koulen, Sixtus Lampl: The organ builders Koulen: Pioneers in a time of upheaval. Schloss-Verlag Valley, Valley 2006, ISBN 978-3-932055-02-7 , pp. 240-241.