Ignaz Dörr

Ignaz Dörr (born September 6, 1829 in Waldstetten ; † November 13, 1886 ) was a German organ builder . He is considered to be the founder of the Hardheim organ building tradition. About 20 of his instruments are known.

Life

In 1843 he began an apprenticeship as a carpenter with Johann Valentin Reichert, which lasted two and a half years. After the end of his apprenticeship in July 1845, he went on a journey (Walz), as was customary in the past. Stations were with master joiner Schreck in Freudenberg and master joiner Wolbert in Miltenberg. Further stations were Aschaffenburg and Würzburg before he returned to Waldstetten on November 16, 1845. From March 1846 he went on the road again to work. Stations included Mannheim, Speyer, Karlsruhe, Kehl, Strasbourg, Basel, St. Blasien, Rottenburg, Tübingen and Stuttgart. After his military service and the turmoil of the Baden Revolution of 1848/49, Ignaz Dörr was back to work on May 24, 1852. In May 1853 he worked for the instrument maker Hoffman in Würzburg. Here he decided to learn the trade of instrument maker. After the death of Master Hoffman, he went to the well-known organ builder Balthasar Schlimbach (1807-1896), also in Würzburg.

In 1855 Ignaz Dörr returned to Waldstetten to start his own business. On March 17, 1857, he passed the organ builder exam with organ builder Moßbrucker from Wertheim. On January 8, 1861, Ignaz Dörr bought the former schoolhouse next to the old parish church in Hardheim and moved there with his family and his workshop in April 1861.

Ignaz Dörr died of a stroke on November 13, 1886 while on a train ride between Bronnbach and Reicholzheim. Since his eldest son Fridolin (1857–1926), who was supposed to take over the business, injured himself on March 30, 1876 while working in his father's workshop and his left arm had to be amputated, he was unable to complete his training as an organ builder Commercial teacher in Vöhrenbach (Black Forest) and Mannheim.

The organ building company was therefore founded by Wilhelm Bader senior after Ignaz Dörr's death . accepted.

plant

The technical quality of the previously restored Dörr organs is respectable, the craftsmanship of the cone chests, the mechanics with the free-standing console and the workmanship are excellent. The cases were usually in three parts and made in the neo-Romanesque arched style.

Twenty organs are known of his work. He built new organs in Rinschheim (1861), Rheinhausen (1881), Freudenberg (1862), Waldstetten (1876) and Waldmühlbach (1885), among others.

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1856	Wertheim	Orphanage		I.	3
1861/62	Rinschheim	cath.		I.	9
1867	Wenkheim	cath.		II	15th
1876/77	Waldstetten	cath.		II	15th
1881	Rheinhausen	cath.		II	20th	Restored in 2003 by Karl Göckel .
1885	Waldmühlbach	St. Nicholas		II	16

literature

• Around 150 years of organ building tradition in Hardheim - brochure accompanying the special exhibition in the Erfatal Museum

Web links

• Ignaz Dörr in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Short biography on se-madonnenland.de