Jacob Oertel
Jacob Oertel († October 5, 1762 in Grünhain ) was a German master organ builder .
Jacob Oertel first appeared as an organ maker in 1726, when the Zwickau organ maker Johann Jacob Donati the Elder. Ä. created a new organ for the Peter-Pauls-Kirche in Beierfeld . Jacob Oertel married Maria Rosina Butter there in 1732, daughter of the silver smelter Christoph Butter, with whom he had five children. He is named as a journeyman organ maker, inheritance owner and organ builder in Altenburg. The family settled in Obersachsenfeld , but then moved to Grünhain in 1744, where he lived and worked as a master organ builder until his death. His greatest work was the two-manual organ in St. Martin's Church in Zschopau (built from 1753 to 1755), which is considered to be one of the three largest surviving baroque organs in Saxony. Another two-manual instrument that has been preserved is in the church in Reichenberg . His organ from 1760 in the village church of Trachenau near Rötha fell victim to lignite mining along with the entire place in the early 1960s.
literature
- Hermann von Strauch: Jacob Oertel, organ builder . In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter , 5/2012, pp. 29–30. ISSN 0232-6078
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| SURNAME | Oertel, Jacob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organ builder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th century or 18th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 1762 |
| Place of death | Grünhain |