Johann Diepenbrock

Company sign on the organ for Spiekeroog (1892), today in Spetzerfehn

Johann Diepenbrock (born December 16, 1854 in Norden , † December 13, 1901 in Norden) was an organ builder in East Friesland , who created organs in traditional construction. The works with mechanical cone drawers in Werdum and Wymeer are almost completely preserved from his new buildings .

life and work

Company sign on a pressure wind harmonium

Diepenbrock apparently learned organ building outside of East Frisia. In 1881 he set up his own business in Norden, where he had a workshop on Osterstrasse for 20 years. Diepenbrock was buried in the Norden- Bargebur cemetery . His widow and son Hans continued the company until 1918/19.

His works were solidly executed and reflect the construction and sound aesthetics from the mid-19th century. While the pneumatic action prevailed outside East Friesland , Diepenbrock built organs with a mechanical cone chest and without swell mechanism , partly behind a historicizing prospectus (as in Werdum and Hatzum ), but usually in the neo-Gothic style (as in Wymeer, Loga and Blomberg ). The brochures were made by local carpenters. Diepenbrock represents the last phase of independent East Frisian organ builders before industrial organ building, which was already marked by the decline of the high-quality organ culture. In terms of sound, the many different fundamental registers are characteristic, which are supplemented by colored voices such as a mixture and tongue registers (often trumpet 8 ′) in order to accommodate a powerful community singing. In addition to a dozen new buildings, Diepenbrock carried out various alterations and changed the arrangements according to the taste of the time, which resulted in the loss of a number of original votes.

A total of twelve new organs and numerous repair and maintenance work on East Frisian organs can be verified. Diepenbrock also built at least two pressure wind harmoniums .

List of works

New buildings

The size of the instruments is indicated in the fifth column by the number of manuals and the number of sounding registers in the sixth column. A capital “P” stands for an independent pedal, a lowercase “p” for an attached pedal. Italics indicate that the organ in question is no longer or only the prospectus has been preserved.

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1888	Wymeer	reformed Church		II / P	16	New building with mechanical cone drawer and neo-Gothic prospect; almost completely preserved
1889	Holthusen	Holthuser Church				New building that was lost due to moisture damage and vandalism in World War II when the church was used as a cinema for Canadian soldiers; Prospectus received
1890	north	St. Ludgerus Church		I.		New construction of an organ with a mechanical cone door behind a neo-Gothic prospect, which is still preserved (today II / P / 20)
1890-1891	Hatzum	St. Sebastian Church		I / P	10	New building behind a historicizing prospect; not received
1891	Loga	Friedenskirche		II / P	16	New building with mechanical cone drawer; Partial destruction in World War II by a grenade explosion, followed by further pipe loss due to looting; 1952 repair with 8 registers by Alfred Führer; Replaced in 1964
1892	Spiekeroog	Old island church		I / p	6th	New building with mechanical cone drawer; dismantled before 1961 (replaced by an instrument by Rudolf Janke ) and put into storage; 1976 Installation as a private house organ (I / p / 4) with a new wind chest (slidable chest built in 1974 by carpenter H. Leeners) in Spetzerfehn by Gerhard Rebel, based on principal 4 ′ instead of the original 8 ′, housing redesigned; 1991 restoration by Wolfgang Hartig; 2000 partial renewal of octave 2 ′ by Christian Wachtendorf; Otherwise the pipework, keyboards, registers and console cabinet are original
1893	Blomberg -Neuschoo	Blomberg Church		I / P	9	New building behind neo-Gothic housing; completely preserved
1894	Loga	reformed Church		I / P	11	New building behind a neo-Gothic prospect; not received
1895	Moordorf	Martin Luther Church		I / P	7th	New building; Housing and two registers preserved
1896	Ostrhauderfehn	Petrus Church		II / P	14th	New building; 8 registers completely preserved, 5 rebuilt by Führer in 1951
1897-1898	Become	St. Nicolai		II / P	14th	New building with mechanical cone drawer and historicizing prospectus with a round bass central tower, two pointed towers, two-storey treble fields and the side blind fields with veils, which is based on the previous organ by Valentin Ulrich Grotian (around 1690); almost completely preserved
1899	Baltrum	Old island church		I.	5	New building; not received
1900	Borkum	reformed Church		II / P	15th	New building; not received

Conversions

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1883-1884	Dornum	St. Bartholomew Church		III / P	32	Reconstruction of the organ by Gerhard von Holy (1710–11), in which seven registers and the keyboards are exchanged → Organ of St. Bartholomew's Church (Dornum)
1884	Hage	St. Ansgari Church		II / P	22nd	Replacement of the Vox humana 8 ′ in the main organ by Dirk Lohman (1776–83) probably with an Aeoline 8 ′
1885	Westerende-Kirchloog	St. Martin		I / P	15th	Extension conversion of the organ by Johann Friedrich Wenthin (1793) in the course of the transfer to the west gallery: exchange of a register and addition of an independent pedal with three registers
1886	Marienhafe	St. Mary's Church		II / p	20th	Exchange of two registers of the organ by Gerhard von Holy (1710–13) → Organ of the Marienkirche (Marienhafe)
1887	Backemoor	St. Laurentius and St. Vincenz		I / p	12	New console and bellows exchange of one and a half registers (Bourdon 16 ′ and Gedackt 8 ′ from C to G sharp) of the organ by Johann Friedrich Wenthin (1783) → organ
1888	north	Ludgeri Church		III / P	46	Installation of new couplers and keyboards as well as changes to the arrangement of the organ by Arp Schnitger (1692)
1890	Böhmerwold	Šumava Church		I / p	7th	Installation of a viol 8 ′ in the organ by Johann Gottfried Rohlfs (1828) instead of the original 8 ′ trumpet
1890	Amdorf	Amdorfer Church		I / p	9	New bellows and manual keyboards for the organ by Heinrich Wilhelm Eckmann (1773)
1890	north	Mennonite Church		I / p	7?	Installation of a principal 8 ′ in the organ by Johann Gottfried Rohlfs (1799); around 1900 transfer to the North Christ Church (Bapstisten); today II / P / 11 → Organ of the Christ Church (north)
1890	Osteel	Warnfried Church		II / p	13	Realization of the organ by Edo Evers (1619) and replacement of the three original wedge bellows with a magazine bellows → Organ of the Warnfried Church (Osteel)
1892	Pilsum	Pilsum Kreuzkirche		I / p	7th	Repair of the organ by Valentin Ulrich Grotian (1694)
1893	Midlum	Midlum Church		I / p	9	Repair of the organ by Hinrich Just Müller (1766), replacement of the manual keyboard and a register of the three original wedge bellows with a magazine bellows
1897-1898	Carolinensiel	Carolinensieler Church		I / p	6th	New console and exchange of second registers and further pipes of the organ by Hinrich Just Müller (1780–81)
1898	Thunum	St. Mary's Church		I / p	6th	Installation of a viol 8 ′ in the organ by Arnold Rohlfs (1855) instead of presumably a transverse flute 8 ′ and replacement of the bass octave of Gedackt 8 ′
1900	Bundles	reformed Church		II / P	25th	Extension of the organ by Hinrich Just Müller (1790–93) with a free pedal with three registers on a cone chest

literature

• Walter Kaufmann : The organs of East Frisia . East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 1968.
• Ralph Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-929902-62-1 .
• Fritz Schild: Monument organs. Documentation of the restoration by organ building guides 1974-1991 . Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2005, ISBN 978-3-7959-0862-1 (2 parts: Backmoor-Groothusen, Hage-Wiesens).
• Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 .
• Harald Vogel, Reinhard Ruge, Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: Organ landscape Ostfriesland . Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1995, ISBN 3-928327-19-4 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Diepenbrock  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kaufmann: The organs of East Frisia . 1968, p. 53.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden . 1995, pp. 137, 517f.
3. ^ Vogel: Organ landscape Ostfriesland . 1995, pp. 117f.
4. ↑ Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden . 1995, p. 54.
5. ↑ organ in Wymeer on NOMINE eV
6. ↑ Paul Weßels (local chronicle of the East Frisian landscape ): Holthusen (PDF file; 36.7 kB), viewed February 25, 2012.
7. ↑ Blomberg-Neuschoo , as seen on February 25, 2012.
8. ↑ Petruskirche Ostrhauderfehn , seen February 25, 2012.
9. ↑ St. Nicolai Werdum , as seen February 25, 2012.
10. ↑ Sign: Monument organs . 2005, pp. 462, 471.
11. ↑ See the restoration report in Schild: Denkmal-Orgeln , pp. 13–22.
12. ↑ Organ in Norden on NOMINE eV , seen on February 25, 2012.
13. ↑ Sign: Monument organs . 2005, pp. 827, 835.