Gruol & Blessing

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Gruol & Blessing
legal form Partnership
founding 1789
resolution 1870
Reason for dissolution task
Seat Bissingen an der Teck GermanyGermanyGermany 
Branch Organ building

Gruol & Blessing was an organ building workshop founded in Bissingen an der Teck in 1789 . Some of their romantic organs in the style of the time still exist today, especially in Baden-Württemberg, and some of them are under monument protection . The company was closed in 1863.

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Between 1789 and 1863, Johann Viktor Gruol the Elder , Johann Viktor Gruol the Younger and Johann Georg Gruol built together with some well-known students and partners such as Christoph Ludwig Goll and Wilhelm Blessing (* April 12, 1832; † June 26, 1870) between one and three organs annually. The organs from Gruol are among the most important romantic organs in southwest Germany, especially in Baden-Württemberg. They are characterized by a particularly soft sound. The brochures are mainly designed in the style of neo-Gothic , baroque or rococo . The cone chest and slider chest organs usually have one or two manuals and up to 30 registers as well as metal and wooden pipes. Some Gruol organs have been extensively restored and are now a listed building.

history

After his apprenticeship with the organ builder Johann Andreas Goll in Weilheim an der Teck , Johann Viktor Gruol the Elder opened an organ workshop in 1789 at Hinteren Strasse 1 in Bissingen an der Teck. The first known work was the extensive repair work carried out on the Haußdörfer organ in Oberlenningen in 1793 and the organ of St. Peter's Church in Weilheim, built in 1795.

Two of his sons, Johann Georg and Johann Viktor, also learned the trade of organ builder. From 1823 they built the organ for the Marienkirche in Bissingen together. After the death of Johann Georg Gruol in 1833 and Johann Viktor Gruol the Elder. Ä. In 1836 Johann Viktor Gruol d. J. continues the business together with his students Christoph Ludwig Goll and Wilhelm Blessing. Between 1841 and 1845 Goll had temporarily left the company to work for Schäfer in Heilbronn and Weigle in Echterdingen . In 1845 Victor Gruol the Elder built J. his first cone shop organ for the community of Rommelshausen . A warranty claim was filed due to defects . After an expert had confirmed the defects, the organ had to be improved by Gruol and the master organ builders Schäfer and Weigle. The process damaged Gruol's professional reputation so much that as a result, the order for the new (II / P / 37) organ for the Giengen town church had to be handed over to the Link brothers as Gruol's subcontractors . This is how the first Link organ was created.

From 1850 Christoph Ludwig Goll was involved as an assessor at the Gruol company, which from then on operated under the name Gruol & Goll. Goll left in 1854 and took over his own workshop in Kirchheim . Wilhelm Blessing stepped in for him as a partner and the company was named Gruol & Blessing . During this time, eight organs were made.

After Viktor Gruol d. J. around 1863 also moved Wilhelm Blessing away, from 1863 until his untimely death in 1870 he worked as an organ builder in his hometown Esslingen / Neckar. Viktor Gruol the Elder J. died in 1871.

List of works (selection)

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1795 Weilheim an der Teck Peterskirche Weilheim Teck Peterskirche organ.jpg II / P 23 Gruol d. Ä .; mechanical slider chests
around 1800 Wimsheim Michaelskirche I / P 10 Gruol d. Ä .; originally built for a church in Mönsheim . Later it was acquired by the parish of Wimsheim for the old Michaelskirche and taken over in the new church in 1883. Restored in 1977.
1803 Ochsenwang Mörike Church I / P 6th Gruol d. Ä .; Today the new organ is built in the old case by the Weigle company (1927, I / P / 6, pneumatic cone chests)
1809 Schopfloch (Lenningen) Johanneskirche I / P 14th Gruol d. Ä .; mechanical slider chests. Restored in 2004, listed.
1809 Hofen Ottilia Church I / P 6th Gruol d. Ä .; since 1974 Kilian's Church in Mundelsheim
1824 Bissingen on the Teck Marienkirche II / P 20th Johann Viktor, Johann Georg, and Johann Viktor Gruol; mechanical slider chests.
1825 Klingenberg (Heilbronn) Protestant church I / P 8th Gruol d. Ä .; mechanical slider chests, restored in 1975
1829 Rommelsbach Martin Luther Church I / P 14th Gruol d. Ä .; In 1929 a Weigle organ was built into the case.
1832 Tübingen- Derendingen St. Gallus Church I / P 14th Restored in 1981 and extended to II / P / 21
1834 Reutlingen- Sondelfingen Stephanuskirche I / P 12 Gruol d. J .; Replaced in 1962; Parts were used in 1979 to restore the organ in Beuren.
1836 Bolheim Protestant church Gruol d. Ä .; In 1890 Link installed a completely new mechanism
1839 Beuren (near Nürtingen) Nicholas Church II / P 23 Gruol d. J .; mechanical slider chests. Restored in 1979.
1840 Riederich Ev. Church of the Resurrection Gruol d. J.
1841 Berkheim Michaelskirche I / P 9
1842 Gechingen Martinskirche
Gechinger organ by Johann Viktor Gruol.JPG
 I / P 6th Gruol d. J. The organ is now in the Jehle Music History Collection in Albstadt - Lautlingen and is a listed building.
1842 Lontal Ortisei I / P 6th Gruol d. J .; 1985 restored by Link
1843 Heidenheim an der Brenz - Mergelstetten Ev. church The old wooden pipes were largely built into the new Link organ in 1967.
1844 Donnstetten St. George's Church I / P 9 1982 extension by a second manual, 2006 restoration
1845 Rommelshausen Mauritius Church I / P 14th Gruol d. J .; mechanical cone chests in the manual, sliding chest in the pedal; 1853/1854 revision by Weigle; 1937 extension conversion by Walcker; Restored in 1993.
1846 Münsingen- Rietheim Ev. church Martinskirche Münsingen.jpg I / P 9
1851 Gutenberg (Lenningen) Nicholas Church I / P 10 Gruol & Goll; 1954 extended to two manuals
1853 Seeburg (Bad Urach) Johanneskirche
SeeburgKircheninneres.jpg
 I / P 7th Gruol & Goll; mechanical cone shop, listed building
1853 Klingenberg (Heilbronn) Evangelical Church in Klingenberg I / P 8th 1975 restoration by Rensch
1853 Dapper Village church I / P 12
1853 Enzklösterle Ev. church
1858 Hepsisau Ev. church I / P 7th Gruol & Blessing; mechanical cone shop
1862 Small boys Blasiuskirche II / P 13 Gruol & Blessing; mechanical cone shop, listed building
1866 Dettingen on the Erms Ev. Dettingen Collegiate Church on the Erms II / P 30th Blessing; Cone shop organ, listed, largest surviving Blessing organ
1869 Böhmenkirch Saint Hippolytus Blessing

Trivia

  • The organ (work number 80) with two manuals and 13 registers, built in 1862 by Gruol & Blessing for the Evangelical Church in Kleinengstingen , cost 1489 guilders at that time . It had a 10-year guarantee and was delivered on July 21, 1862 by means of three two-horse wagons.
  • An organ pipe from the Gruol organ, built in Ochsenwang around 1803 , was signed by Eduard Mörike with the date of September 17, 1833 and is now on display in the Mörikehaus Ochsenwang .
  • Ringtones from the Gruol organ, built in 1809 in Schopfloch, have been available for download since 2014 .

literature

  • Ernst Leuze: Organs under Teck . In: Series of publications Stadtarchiv Kirchheim unter Teck . tape 36 . Self-published, Kirchheim unter Teck 2013, ISBN 978-3-925589-61-4 .
  • Manfred Keller, Alfred Hub: Bissingen - home between Teck and Breitenstein . Self-published, Kirchheim unter Teck 1972.
  • Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 , p. 128 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christine Dewald: Organ of the Blasius Church: Romantic sound. Riederich community, October 6, 2010, accessed on February 11, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Klaus Rensch: The organ of the Protestant Nikolauskirche Beuren by Johann Victor Gruol 1839. Retrieved on February 10, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c Helmut Völkl , Wolfram Rehfeldt, Gerhard Rehm, Eugen Gröner: Orgeln in Württemberg . Carus-Verlag, 1986, ISBN 978-3-923053-36-0 , pp. 204 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ a b formerly Gasthaus Krone. In: Database building research. State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg , accessed on May 21, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g organs in the Kirchheim church district. (No longer available online.) Evangelische Kirche Kirchheim u. Teck, archived from the original on February 8, 2017 ; accessed on February 8, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.evangelische-kirche-kirchheim-teck.de
  6. ↑ a b c Hermann Fischer: 100 years Association of German organ builder: . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, 1991, ISBN 978-3-921848-18-0 , p. 195 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ↑ Thomas Haller: Late Romantic reference instrument of the first quality . In: Organ - journal for the organ . No. 4 , 2016, ISSN  1435-7941 , p. 11 ff . ( Reading sample PDF ).
  8. ^ Stadtarchiv Esslingen / Neckar, family register
  9. ↑ 120 years of Michaelskirche. Wimsheim parish, accessed on February 10, 2017 .
  10. ↑ a b c Klaus Rensch: List of Opus. Retrieved February 10, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Volker Lutz : acceptance report. (PDF) August 11, 2005, accessed February 9, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Angelika Fink: The history of Mundelsheim - an overview, in: Mundelsheim. Wine village on the Neckar . Mundelsheim municipality, 1995, ISBN 978-3-9804177-0-9 , p. 8th ff .
  13. ↑ Parish management report on the main visit 2006. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: p. 28. Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Rommelsbach, archived from the original on February 11, 2017 ; accessed on February 10, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirche-rommelsbach.de
  14. ↑ Foundation test organ (12): The Olympic trombone of Bolheim. In: Heidenheimer Zeitung . July 8, 2016, accessed February 10, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Evangelical Resurrection Church. Riederich municipality, accessed on February 11, 2017 .
  16. ^ Volker Jehle: inventory. (PDF Download) In: Fourth, corrected and supplemented edition, p. 54. Jehle Music History Collection, April 2015, accessed on February 10, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Foundation Organ Test (9): Lontal's great miniature without an example. In: Heidenheimer Zeitung. June 28, 2016. Retrieved February 10, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Neo-Gothic on the Brenz. (PDF) In: Schloßblick 3/10. Retrieved on February 10, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Klaus Könner: The organ as a sound, technology and art monument. A special challenge in conservation practice . In: Newsletter of the preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg (1958-1970) . tape 32 , no. 1 , 2003, ISSN  0342-0027 , p. 98 ff . ( available online ).
  20. ^ Andreas Schmutz: Project Seeburg. as-orgelbau, 1, accessed on February 9, 2017 .
  21. ↑ a b Our Gruol Blessing cone store organ. Evangelical Church Community Kleinengstingen, October 1, 2012, accessed on February 9, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Parish . Mörikehaus Ochsenwang , accessed on February 10, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Every cell phone rings the same. In: Magazine Lebensraum Schwäbische Alb. February 25, 2015, accessed February 10, 2017 .