Haerpfer & Erman

The company Hærpfer & Erman (previously Dalstein-Hærpfer ) was a French organ builder in Boulay . It existed from 1863 to 1999. Hærpfer worked mainly in Lorraine , but also in Saarland and the Palatinate .

Company history

In 1863, Johann Karl Härpfer (1835–1909), who had learned from Steinmeyer in Oettingen and later worked with Walcker in Ludwigsburg and Friedrich Haas in Lucerne, with Nicolas-Etienne Dalstein (1834–1900) , who worked for Cavaillé-Coll in Paris Organ building company in Bolchen (now Boulay) in Lorraine.

Their first organ was delivered to Téterchen . Härpfer adopted a French spelling of his name and the company was called “Dalstein & Hærpfer” from then on. At Walcker, Haas and Cavaillé-Coll, Hærpfer had copied the lengths of many registers and was responsible as voicer for the tonal design of the instruments. Dalstein was a carpenter and designed the mechanics.

Dalstein & Hærpfer introduced the cone drawer back in 1865 . For particularly large instruments, they made Barker machines (e.g. Nancy, St-Etienne) and from 1892 pneumatic action mechanisms (e.g. Hayange). At the beginning of the 20th century, important organs of the Alsatian organ reform were created in collaboration with Albert Schweitzer .

In 1909 Fritz (Frédéric) Hærpfer (1879–1956) and Paul Dalstein (1868–1926) took over the management of the company, who introduced a neo-baroque sound ideal. In 1919 Frédéric Hærpfer became the sole owner of the company, which from then on was called Manufacture Lorraine des Grandes Orgues . In 1946 his son Walter Hærpfer merged with Pierre Erman under the name "Hærpfer & Erman". Between 1948 and 1967 alone they built more than 250 organs (mostly with electric action ), which were delivered to France, Germany and North Africa.

In 1979 Théo Hærpfer (1946 - June 12, 1998) took over the company and separated from Pierre Erman. With him there was a return to the mechanical sliding drawer . After his death the company was dissolved.

List of works (selection)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1864	Denting	Saint Jean Baptiste		II / P	12	Original received! Completely renovated by Mayer (Heusweiler) in 2019.
1883	Catfish catch	St. Catherine		II / P	27	Extension of the existing one-manual Breidenfeld organ to two manuals and pedal
1888	Dalem	Saint Pierre		II / P	11	Original received!
1899	Schwerdorff	Parish Church of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption ( Assumption of Mary )				Price without prospectus 7640 marks (plus 2000 marks for prospectus, made by Klemm from Colmar )
1890	Metz	Sainte Segolène		II / P	31	1898 minor expansion
1890	Berus	St. Martin		II / P	16	Behind the baroque prospect from the Wadgassen monastery (1785); 1942 Renovation by Georges Haupt (Lintgen).
1894	Zetting	Saint-Marcel		II / P	12	1960 Electrification by Willy Meurer
1900	Leidingen	St. Remigius		I / P	10
1902	Ittersdorf	St. Martin		II / P	10
1905	Strasbourg	Thomas Church				based on designs by Albert Schweitzer
1907	Strasbourg	Church of the Redeemer				based on designs by Albert Schweitzer ; listed ( monument historique )
1908-1909	Strasbourg	Singer House (today Palais des fêtes )				partly based on designs by Albert Schweitzer
1927	Illingen (Saar)	St. Stephan		II / P	32	1973 replaced by a new organ from the Alfred Führer company from Wilhelmshaven.
1930	Body	St. Michael		II / P	15th	originally built for a French church, moved to Körprich after its destruction
1943	Lisdorf	St. Crispinus and Crispinianus		II / P		1987 dismantled and replaced by a new building from Hugo Mayer .
1950	Save	Saint Laurent		III / P	32	In the historical case from 1903
1950	Wittring	Saint-Etienne		II / P	24	Using the case and pipework of the previous Krempf organ (1904)
1950	Wustweiler	Sacred Heart of Jesus		II / P	25th	Replaced in 2002 by a new building from the Gaida company.
1950	Riegelsberg	St. Joseph		III / P	34	1986 conversion to grinding chests
1950	Oberthal	St. Stephen		III / P	32
1950	Waders	All Saints Day		II / P	21st	In the historical case by Verschneider (1830), dismantled in 1983 and replaced by a new technical building by Hugo Mayer, which was consecrated in 1986 .
1953	Overriding	St. Boniface		III / P	35
1953	Losheim am See	St. Peter and Paul		III / P		Replaced in 1985 by today's Oberlinger organ.
1953	Britten (Losheim am See)	St. Wendalinus		II / P	17th
1953	Saarwellingen	St. Blaise and Martinus		III / P	38	A large part of the pipe material was taken over in 1995 in the new technical building of the Walcker company.
1953	Stennweiler	St. Barbara		II / P	18th
1954	Alsting	Saint Pierre		II / P	21st	In a historical case (19th century)
1954	Püttlingen	Dear women		III / P	45	1995 Installation of a new gaming table by Mayer
1954	Oberkirchen (Freisen)	St. Catherine		II / P	29	2015 Modification of the gaming table by Gaida
1954	Freisen	St. Remigius		II / P	26th	In the expanded historical organ case of the previous organ by Stumm (1782)
1954	Helix	St. John		II / P	19th
1955	Friedrichsthal (Saar)	St. Mary		III / P	44	Original received
1955	Deauville	St-Augustin		III / P	32
1955	Tholey - Scouring (Saar)	Parish Church of St. Catherine		II / P	18th	Complete renovation and expansion of the existing Klais organ (II / 4)
1955	Bous	St. Peter		II / P	25th	received changed
1955	Wood (Heusweiler)	St. Joseph		II / P	23
1956	Dirmingen	Parish Church of St. Wendalinus		II / P	28
1957	Mettlach	St. Lutwinus		III / P	51
1957	Ludweiler	Heart of jesus		III / P	43	In 2001/02 moved to St. Gangolf in Differten
1959	Saarbrücken - Sheep Bridge	St. Theresia and Remigius		II / P	15th	receive
1959	Fremersdorf	St. Mauritius		II / P	16	Implemented in 1999 after Christ the King Trier
1960	Blies-Schweyen	Saint Eustache		II / P	11
1961	Wadgassen	Visitation of the Virgin Mary		III / P	34
1964	Forbach (Moselle)	Saint Rémi		IV / P	50
1966	Riegelsberg	St. Matthias		II / P	23
1967	Gerlfangen	Exaltation of the Cross		II / P	18th
1970	Rennes	Cathédrale St-Pierre				Complete conversion and expansion of an existing instrument by Cavaillé-Coll from 1874.
1970	Metz	Cathédrale St-Etienne		II / P	27
1972	Emmersweiler	St. Barbara		II / P	14th	Fully mechanical grinding chests
1973	Paris	Abbaye St-Germain-des-Prés		IV / P	56	Reconstruction of an existing instrument from 1805.
1977	Ludwigshafen - Maudach	St. Michael		II / P	17th
1978	Langres	Cathédrale		IV / P	53	The instrument goes back in part to an instrument that was built by the organ builder Jean Treuillot in 1715 and has been expanded over time. It is classified as a monument historique .
1993-1994	Saint-Nicolas-de-Port	St. Nicolas Basilica		IV / P	48	Reconstruction of the organ and restoration of the console

literature

• Christian Lutz: Haerpfer . In: Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel (Eds.): The Organ. To Encyclopedia . Routledge, New York / London 2006, ISBN 0-415-94174-1 , pp. 236 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Jürgen Weyers: Between German and French tradition - the Lorraine organ landscape. In: Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde (Ed.): Ars Organi , 49th year, issue 1, March 2001, Mettlach 2001, pp. 7-10.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Organs in Saarland: Hærpfer, Manufacture d'orgues. ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 28, 2017. 
2. ↑ Jürgen Weyers: Between German and French tradition - The organ landscape of Lorraine. In: Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde (Ed.): Ars Organi, 49th year, issue 1, March 2001, Mettlach 2001, pp. 7-10.
3. ^ Rémy and Christiane Divo: Schwerdorff. L'Eglise au Fil du Temps . 1995, p. 62 .
4. ↑ decouverte.orgue.free.fr ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ decouverte.orgue.free.fr ( Memento of the original dated June 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ decouverte.orgue.free.fr ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Organ in St. Peter Bous ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , seen May 28, 2017. 
8. ^ Organ in St. Theresia , seen March 1, 2016.

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