Holland (organ builder)

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Holland is the name of a German family of organ builders in Thuringia .

life and work

The family built organs for four generations. The founder of the family dynasty was Johann Caspar Holland (* December 2, 1747, † February 26, 1834), who trained as a carpenter in Asbach before 1770. He learned organ building in the workshop of the Wagner brothers in Schmiedefeld , where he worked as a journeyman from 1775 to 1783 and then as a foreman . In 1790 he was their successor and took over the workshop. In 1793 he completed the organ in the Dresden Kreuzkirche . He successfully continued the company and built organs in Saxony and Thuringia.

The son Johann Michael Holland (born March 19, 1778; † May 13, 1842), son of Johann Caspar, took over the company between 1818 and 1820. Until his death he worked as an organ builder in Schmiedefeld. The grandson Friedrich Wilhelm Holland (born September 2, 1804, † April 2, 1879) was the third generation of organ builders. August Holland († 1902) was probably the son of Friedrich Wilhelm. He moved the workshop from Schmiedefeld to Untersuhl around 1880 and worked there as an organ builder. With his death in 1902, the fourth generation of the family business went out.

List of works (selection)

The family supplied numerous organs. The following works are known, among others:

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1788-1792 Dresden Kreuzkirche III / P 50 Completion of the new building for the Wagner brothers by Johann Caspar Holland; not received
1793 Jesuborn Luther Church I / P 11 The oldest surviving independent work by Johann Caspar Holland. In 1819, the builder himself moved the instrument to the new church together with his son, and it was optically richly decorated. 1874 repair by Holland.
1831 Vacha Johanneskirche II / P 26th New building by Johann Michael Holland; 2002–2004 restoration by Orgelbau Waltershausen
1840 Eisenach George Church Eisenach St Georgen Organ.jpg III / P 40 largest new building by Johann Michael Holland, behind the prospectus by Georg Christoph Stertzing (1719); not received
1843 Mollenstorf Village church I. 5 Pedal-free new building by Friedrich Wilhelm Holland, installation by Carl Laue
1846 Urspringen Ev. church II / P 20th New building by Friedrich Wilhelm Holland; 1983 Extension conversion by Hey Orgelbau
around 1850 Dippach St. Catherine Church II / P 13 New building by Friedrich Wilhelm Holland; 2006 Restoration by Orgelbau Waltershausen
1851 Kratzeburg Village church I / P 1992 new building by Wolfgang Nußbücker; Prospectus received
1858 Manebach Evangelical Zum Kripplein Jesu Church II / P 14th New building by Friedrich Wilhelm Holland
1859-1860 Wumbach Village church Wümbach 03.jpg II / P 13 New building by Friedrich Wilhelm Holland; 2004–2007 restoration by Schönefeld
1867 Hero third St. Nicholas Church
1874 Fechheim Michaelskirche
1889 Oberellen Village church II / P 15th New building by August Holland

literature

  • Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . tape 1 : Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 .
  • Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . tape 2 : Saxony and bypassing . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-921140-92-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 2: Saxony and bypassing. 2012, p. 155.
  2. ^ Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony. An organ inventory . VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-920112-76-8 , p. 80 .
  3. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area. 2009, p. 131.
  4. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 2: Saxony and bypassing. 2012, p. 156.
  5. ^ Matthias Herrmann (ed.): The Dresden church music in the 19th and 20th centuries. Laaber, Laaber 1998, ISBN 3-89007-331-X , p. 221.
  6. ^ Organ in Jesuborn , accessed on December 22, 2017.
  7. ^ Organ in Vacha , accessed on December 23, 2017.
  8. ↑ Felix Friedrich Eberhard Kneipel: Organs in Thuringia - A Guide (=  242. publication of the Society of Organ Friends ). 2nd Edition. Kamprad, Altenburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-930550-67-8 , p. 105 .
  9. ^ Organ in Mollenstorf , accessed on December 23, 2017.
  10. ^ Organ in Urspringen , accessed on December 23, 2017.
  11. ^ Organ in Kratzeburg , accessed on December 23, 2017.
  12. ^ Organ in Wümbach , accessed on December 23, 2017.