Hans Hantelmann

Hans (also: Hanß) Hantelmann (* 1655 in Celle ; † before April 15, 1735, presumably in Lübeck ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Little is known about Hans Hantelmann's youth and early career. In 1682 he began to work for Arp Schnitger in Hamburg and soon became one of the most important employees there, becoming a works manager . In this function, he was primarily responsible for Schnitger's new buildings in the Magdeburg area. On the occasion of the new construction of the Schnitger organ in Lübeck Cathedral , he went into business for himself and founded his own workshop in Lübeck, which in a certain way could be considered a “Schnitger branch”. In 1697 he received the civil rights of Lübeck. The organ building in Lübeck Cathedral, which was still contractually agreed with Schnitger, was then largely carried out by Hantelmann himself between 1696 and 1699.

In the same year he carried out a job for the first time under his own name, namely the repair of the parish church organ in Güstrow . Further work in the following period was repair work, such as 1701 the dance of death organ of St. Marienkirche Lübeck , 1702 the organ of the city church in Ratzeburg and 1703 the organ in the Ratzeburg cathedral . In 1707 he obtained the coveted organ building privilege for Mecklenburg and then shifted his main focus of work there. In the following years his employees included his journeyman Johann Christian Nießen from Dömitz and the carpenter Martin Falcke from Regensburg. For the new organs in Mecklenburg, Hantelmann usually set up a temporary mobile workshop on site. His last new organ in Schlutup was completed by his most important student, Christoph Erdmann Vogel . The latter took over the style of his teacher unchanged, as can be seen in the new building of the Rückpositiv in St. Nikolai zu Wismar (1737), which is now in a converted form in the Zurow village church . After his death, Hantelmann was buried in Lübeck on April 15, 1735 in the cathedral cemetery.

meaning

Hans Hantelmann is one of Arp Schnitger's most important students today . He took over the essential stylistic features of his teacher. This includes above all the typical outer five-part prospect structure with a polygonal central tower and pointed side towers. Hantelmann manufactured three types of new buildings:

• a manual organ with a rear pedal
• Two-manual organs with main work , breastwork and pedal towers in connected form
• Two manual organs with main work and Rückpositiv

Schnitger has role models for all three types. In disposition structure to Hantelmann also holds tightly to the north German construction principles Schnitger. In the choice of materials, however, he was more careless. For example, he mainly used softwood for the casings of new buildings and the metal in his pipes is thinner-walled and often contains more lead than Schnitger's, which he was later criticized for. The sound of Hantelmann's organs is, as far as can be verified on the few surviving instruments, characteristic of the successor to the Schnitger school. For the organ landscape of Mecklenburg , the works of Hantelmann are a milestone for the area still poor in organs, especially in the country.

List of works

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1696-1699	Lübeck	Lübeck Cathedral		III / P	45	Largely independent execution as Schnitger's journeyman; Replaced from 1892–1893 by a new building by Eberhard Friedrich Walcker ; the preserved prospectus by Schnitger was destroyed in 1942.
1701	Lübeck	Marienkirche				Repair of the dance of death organ; not received
1701-1702	Sand next to it	Marienkirche		II / P	15th	Installation of the Schnitger organ; Replaced in 1876 ​​by the new organ building workshop Philipp Furtwängler & Sons
1706-1707	Wismar	Nikolaikirche				Repair; not received
1708	Schwerin	Schwerin Cathedral				New building proposal, not carried out
1713	Lübeck	Castle Church		II / P	28	New building; was moved to Rehna in 1816 , where it was replaced by a Friese organ in 1856; not received
1714	Lübeck	St. Aegidia				Repair, of which the prospect pipes are still preserved today
1715	Wittenburg	St. Bartholomew				Repair; not received
1717	Breitenfelde	Breitenfelde Church				New building; not received
1722	Cammin	St. Laurence		I / P	13	New building; rebuilt several times; Preserved (restored in 2003), today I / P / 15
1723	Big Eichsen	Johanniter Church		II / p	14th	New building, case with prospect pipes preserved (1991 Rückpositiv and 2002 main work with original mid-tone tuning reconstructed by Wegscheider's organ workshop )
1723	Mills Eichsen	Village church Mühlen Eichsen		II / p	12	Implementation of the old organ from Groß Eichsen and addition of a Rückpositiv (case with prospect pipes preserved)
1725	Lübeck	Petrikirche				Repair; not received
1725	Bardewish	Holy Cross Church		II / P	15th	New building; not received
1728	Strelitz	City Church		II / P	23?	New building; Replaced in 1905 by a new work by Barnim Grüneberg behind the old prospectus; this was destroyed in 1945 with the church
1728	Proseken at Wismar	Village church		II / P	20th	New building; not received
1732	Kalkhorst	Kalkhorst village church		II / P	18?	New building, housing preserved
1735	Schlutup	St. Andrew's Church		I / P	9	New building using 3 registers from the previous organ, completed by Christoph Erdmann Vogel; Replaced in 1871 by the new organ building workshop Philipp Furtwängler & Sons

literature

• Affiliated parishes of Vietlübbe and Mühlen Eichsen (ed.): Festschrift for the consecration of the Hantelmann organ in Groß Eichsen . Groß Eichsen 2002.
• Johannes Baltzer and Friedrich Bruns: Church to Alt-Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church . In: Building authority (ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . tape III . Publishing house by Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, p. 165 ff., 506 (Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9 ).
• Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 , p. 185 f .
• Friedrich Schlie : The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin . In: The art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . tape II . Schwerin 1898 (reprint Schwerin 1992 ISBN 3-910179-06-1 ).
• Dietrich Wölfel: The wonderful world of organs. Lübeck as an organ city . Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1980, p. 8th f., 14, 21, 36, 44, 54 f., 70 f., 92 f .

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