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Ignaz Weise (born January 10, 1864 in Amberg , † 1932 in Passau ) was an East Bavarian organ builder .

Ignaz Weise learned the trade of organ building in the Maerz organ building workshop in Munich . In 1889 he founded his own company in Passau , which he moved to Plattling in 1903 . He built numerous organs in Lower Bavaria and in the eastern Upper Palatinate . In 1919 he handed the business over to his adopted son Michael.

progeny

Michael Weise (born January 15, 1889 in Grafentraubach , † April 24, 1969 near Ruhmannsfelden ).

Michael Weise learned from Ignaz Weise and from EF Walcker in Ludwigsburg . In 1919 he took over the business of his adoptive father and managed it until a fatal traffic accident in 1969. Hundreds of organs were built under his direction.

Reinhard Weise (born March 8, 1946 in Plattling ; † April 24, 2020 there).

Adoptive son Reinhard Weise continued to run the “Orgelbauanstalt” from 1972 to the present day. During his era the opus number of 1200 instruments was reached. The company turned to the mechanical sliding chest and manufactured organs with up to 45 stops on 4 manuals. A focus of the activities arose in the Franconian and Baden region, for example in and around Würzburg , Heidelberg , Sandhausen, Mannheim , Ludwigshafen , Wendlingen or Öhringen.

List of works (selection)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1907	Eching	St. Johann Baptist		II / P	12	Cone chest, pneumatic action → organ
1911	Seyboldsdorf	St. Johann		II / P	10	Cone chest, pneumatic action. Restored in 2015 by organ builder Christian Meier from Straubing → Organ
1922	Rainertshausen	St. Erhard		II / P	15th	Cone chest, pneumatic action. In the rococo brochure of the previous organ by Johann Peter Plersch (1765). Rebuilt in 1950 and added a stop → organ
1923	Waldeck (Kemnath)	St. Nepomuk		II / P	10	Cone chest, pneumatic action. Built with 7 registers, expanded to 10 / II / P in 1959. Housing untypical for the region, 18th century
1925	Binabiburg	St. Johann Baptist		II / P	9	1982 replaced by Reinhard Weise → organ
1927	Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Partenkirchen	Assumption Day		II / P	32	1970 extended by 7 registers. Replaced in 1991 by a new building by Orgelbau Sandtner
1931	Krummennaab	Assumption Day		II / P	15th	Cone door, pneumatic action, extremely full sound.
1934	Landshut	St. Wolfgang		II / aP	12	Cone chest, electro-pneumatic action, not preserved → organ
1936	Wörth on the Isar	St. Laurence		II / P	10	Cone chest, pneumatic action → organ
1937	Willows in the Upper Palatinate	Former monastery church of St. Augustine		III / P	43	Diaphragm box, electric action. The organ is astonishingly well suited for interpreting works by Max Reger .
1938	Neufahrn in Lower Bavaria	Assumption Day		II / P	17th	Cone chest, pneumatic action → organ
1939	regensburg	St. Cecilia		III / P	41	Membrane drawer, electric action, second, free console → organ
1940	Essenbach	Assumption Day		II / P	17th	not receive 1994 new Hubert Sandtner replaced → Organ
1940	Hohenthann	Pilgrimage church Heiligenbrunn		II / P	12	Cone chest, pneumatic action → organ
1950	Bodenwohr	St. Barbara		II / P	19th
1950	Thanstein	St. John the Baptist		II / P	10	Cone shutter, pneumatic action, expanded to 12 stops in 1986
1953	Mud village	St. Lucia		II / P	17th	Cone drawer, pneumatic action, rich sound
1953	Saarbrücken	St. Joseph		III / P	33	electric action, free-standing console
1954	Kulz	St. Joseph		II / P	12	Substance: 6 registers from 1880. Expansion to 12 / II / P, pneumatic cone chests
1955	St. Wendel	St. Anna		III / P	37	electro-pneumatic cone chest
1955	Aschaffenburg	St. Kilian		II / P	25th	electro-pneumatic cone chest
1955	Ergolding	Visitation of the Virgin Mary		II / P	13	pneumatic cone chest → organ
1956	Landshut	St. Conrad		III / P	44
1960	Schwandorf	To Our Lady of the Kreuzberg		III / P	48	Planning by Rudolf Walter (Mainz). Slider drawer with electropneumatic transmission. One of the largest organs in the Naab Valley, general renovation in planning. organ
1961	Abensberg	St. Barbara		III / P	28	using parts of the previous organ
1964/1984	Ettmannsdorf	St. Conrad		III / P	25th	Electropneumatic cone chest in the manuals. 1984 Extension from 18 / II / P to 25 / III / P. End of 2020 reorganization and expansion ( Mühleisen organ building )
1964	Helmstadt-Bargen	St. Laurence		II / P	23	mechanical action
1965	Wolnzach	St. Laurence		II / P	25th	The prospectus comes from the previous organ by Ignaz Weise from 1913 → Organ
1966	Aschaffenburg	St. Gertrude		II / P	25th
1967	Oberahrain	St. Erhard		II / P	14th	Cone chest, fully electric action → organ
1968	Mettenbach	St. Dionysius		I / P	8th	Cone chest, fully electric action → organ
1969	On the mountain	Holy Trinity		III / P	44	Origin: St. Cäcilia Regensburg (1901 Steinmeyer Opus 720, 31 / II / P, disposition Franz Xaver Haberl). 1939 Reconstruction and transfer to Amberg (Michael Weise). 1969 New building with material from Steinmeyer. Slider drawer, mechanical play, electrical stop action (Michael Weise). 2003 Revision and reorganization, including new mechanical action mechanism ( Mühleisen organ building )
1972	Ergolding	St. Peter		II / P	12	Reinhard Weise; Slider chest, mechanical action → organ
1975	Erbendorf	Assumption Day		II / P	18th	Slider drawer, mechanical action. Case by Johann Konrad Funtsch
1976	Marktredwitz	Heart of jesus		III / P	31	Slider drawer, mechanical action mechanism
1977	Goslar	St. Benno		III / P	37	Originally made for the concert hall of the church music college in Regensburg, moved to St. Benno in 2006. The “roof-shaped structure” was added after the implementation. Mechanical action mechanism. "Colored" disposition by Eberhard Kraus
1977	Waldmünchen	Catholic parish church St. Stephan		III / P	26th	Planning Eberhard Kraus . Mechanical play, electrical stop action. Unique curiosity: Horizontal trumpet 4 'in the back positive.
1979	Koblenz	St. Peter and Paul		II / P	27
1981	St. Wendel	Holy Spirit		II / P	15th	In the course of the profanation of the church building in 2003, the organ was placed unchanged in the parish church of St. Lambertus in Noviand.
1982	Binabiburg	St. Johann Baptist		II / P	14th	as a replacement for a Michael Weise organ from 1925 → organ
1983	Altdorf	New St. Nikola		II / P	32	→ organ
1989	Hohenkemnath	Assumption Day		II / P	21st	mechanical action mechanism
1991	Arnschwang	St. Martin		II / P	23	Slider drawer, mechanical action. Brochure 1755 transferred from Roding by Andreas Weiß in 1959. One of the most compelling newer organs.
1991	Kirchberg (Kröning)	St. Florian and Wolfgang		II / P	17th	Slider drawer, mechanical action. → organ
1997	Hohentreswitz	St. Bartholomew		II / P	10	In the prospectus from Binder and Siemann in 1921

literature

• Michael Bernhard, Organ Database Bavaria, Version 5, 2009
• Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Historical organs in Upper Franconia . Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7954-0385-5
• Eberhard Kraus: Historic organs in the Upper Palatinate . Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7954-0387-1

Web links

• Internet presence of the company Orgelbau Weise

Individual evidence

1. ^ Passauer Neue Presse: Reinhard Weise . trauer.pnp.de. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
2. ↑ Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary. In: erzbistum-muenchen.de. Retrieved January 25, 2020 .