Hermann Kroeger

Hermann Kröger (also: Harmen Kröger ) († 1671 ) was a German organ builder in Nienburg / Weser . Its important organ in Langwarden is almost completely preserved.

life and work

Little is known about Kröger's life. The family relationship to the organ builder Cordt Kröger (* around 1600, † 1641), who probably learned organ building from the important organ building family Bader, is unclear. Hermann Kröger was his master craftsman and completed its new building in the Oldenburg Lambertikirche . Hermann Kröger stayed in Oldenburg, Rodenkirchen and Berne until 1651 and then moved to Minden and Celle. From 1655 it can be traced in Nienburg and in 1670 in the area around the county of Hoya .

His brother Gerd († around 1641) appears together with him in several organ projects. Kröger's further development of the spring shop is significant . Its effectiveness was concentrated on the Oldenburg organ landscape . Kröger built organs with independent pedals in separate pedal towers. Kröger added openwork carvings in cartilage style over the doors of the breastwork . This tradition was adopted by Berendt Hus . In the manual works, the principal and flute choirs were as complete as possible , supplemented by aliquot registers and reed parts. The metal pipes were mostly made of pure lead. Kröger painted the largest pipes in the prospectus with grimaces. Kröger's master journeyman was Berendt Hus, who became Arp Schnitger's teacher . The Brabant- North German operating principle of the Scherer and Fritzsche organ building families was conveyed to Schnitger through the Kröger and Hus families.

List of works (selection)

In the fifth column of the table, the Roman number indicates the number of manuals , a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal , a lower-case "p" indicates an attached pedal and the Arabic number in the sixth column indicates the number of sounding registers .

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1638	Blinking	St. Hippolytus				New construction of a small organ, which was replaced by Joachim Kayser in 1685
1640	Remove	St. Laurence		II / p	10	New construction probably by Hermann or Gerd Kröger; in the course of the new building in 1713 transferred by Arp Schnitger to Waddens , St. Marcellus; replaced there in 1882
1642	Berne	St. Aegidius		II / P	23	Reinhard van Lampeler (1596; I / 9) added a Rückpositiv and a pedal to the organ ; Reconstruction by Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy (1793); today II / P / 25; Remains received
1635-1642	Oldenburg	Lamberti Church		III / P	35	Completion of the new building by Cordt Kröger; Replaced in 1800
1642	Rodenkirchen (Stadland)	St. Matthew				Extension of the organ by Jost Sieburg (1642) by a Rückpositiv; Replaced in 1758
1650	Daverden	Ev.-luth. church				New building
1650	Langwarden	St. Laurence		II / P	21st	New building together with his journeyman Berendt Hus, with jumping shop; 14 registers preserved
1650	Stooping	Collegiate Church of St. Materniani et St. Nicolai				Presumably an extension of an older organ from the 16th century, nine historical registers integrated in the new Hillebrand building (1976)
1653	Celle	City Church of St. Mary		III / P	35	New building together with Berendt Hus; Get prospectus; 1999 reconstruction by Rowan West
1660	Verden (Aller)	Verden Cathedral				Repair of the organ by Andreas de Mare (1582–83); not received
1662	Vilsen	St. Cyriac				New building
1662-1663	Lunsen	Ev.-luth. church				Repair and extension by a Rückpositiv with 10 registers; not received
1671	Lengerich (Westphalia)	Protestant church

literature

• 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 .
• Walter Kaufmann : The organs of the old Duchy of Oldenburg . Stalling, Oldenburg 1962.
• Karl Veit Riedel: Kröger, Gerd. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 394 ( online , PDF).
• Fritz Schild: Organ atlas of the historical and modern organs of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg . Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2008, ISBN 3-7959-0894-9 .
• Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 .

Web links

• Karl-Jürgen Kemmelmeyer: On the history of the St. Andreas Church in Lübbeck and its organs (PDF).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Riedel: Kröger, Gerd. , P. 394 (PDF).
2. ↑ Cornelius H. Edskes , Harald Vogel : Arp Schnitger and his work (=  241st publication by the Society of Organ Friends ). Hauschild, Bremen 2013, ISBN 978-3-89757-525-7 , pp. 20 .
3. ^ Fritz Schild: Memorial organs. Documentation of the restoration by Organ Builders Guide 1974–1991. Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2005, ISBN 3-7959-0862-0 , p. 585.