Johann Gottfried Rohlfs

Johann Gottfried Rohlfs (born June 27, 1759 in Esens ; † July 25, 1847 there ) was an organ builder who worked in East Frisia .

Life

Rohlfs learned in Hinrich Just Müller's workshop and only appeared sporadically independently from 1788. On October 9, 1792 he acquired the citizenship of Esens. On January 24, 1801, he married Sophia Maria Elisabeth Schuster and founded a family of organ builders with her. His son Arnold Rohlfs (1808–1882) and his grandson Friedrich (Frerk) (born June 26, 1829, † March 17, 1891) became famous as organ builders, and with his death the company went out. Johann Gottfried worked for half a century (1788–1838) and created smaller organs with a very colorful sound that were more conservative in terms of their external structure and sound and were in the tradition of Müller. Most of his new buildings are still preserved and functional today.

List of works

In the fifth column of the table, the Roman number indicates the number of manuals , a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal , a lower-case "p" indicates an attached pedal and the Arabic number in the sixth column indicates the number of sounding registers . Italics indicate that the organ has not been preserved.

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1793	Hatshausen	Maria Magdalena Church		II / p	12	Completion of the new building by Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer after his death; Prospectus received
1794	Burhafe	St. Florian Church		I / p	8th	New building; 1905 extension conversion by Johann Martin Schmid ; 2009 restoration by Harm Dieder Kirschner ; today I / P / 10 (12); technical system reconstructed, half of the pipework and housing from Rohlfs preserved
1794-1795	Bangstede	Bangsteder Church		I / p	8th	New building; largely preserved; 2008-09 by Bartelt Immer restored
1796-1799	north	Mennonite Church		I / p	7 (?)	New building; around 1900 transfer to the North Christ Church (Baptists); today II / P / 11 → Organ of the Christ Church (north)
1796-1798	Neustadtgödens	Ev.-luth. church		II / p	15th	New building; after renovation in 1906 today II / P / 15
1798	Ochtelbur	Ochtelburer Church		I / p	7th	Transfer of the organ by Johann Friedrich Constabel (1747) to the east gallery; not received
1799	Arle	Boniface Church		I / p	12	New building together with Hinrich Just Müller ; 1999 extended by Martin ter Haseborg to today II / P / 18
1801	Barstede	Barsteder Church		I / p	8th	New building; largely preserved
1801-1802	Veenhusen	Veenhuser Church		I / p	8th	New building; largely preserved
1810-1813	Holtland	Marienkirche		II / p	14th	New building; largely preserved; Parapet organ
1815-1816	Nüttermoor	reformed Church		I / p	9	New building; largely preserved
1817-1818	Victorbur	St. Victor Church		I / p	11	New building; Get prospectus; Pipe interiors by Hermann Hillebrand (1966–69)
1820-1822	Wiesens	John the Baptist Church		I / p	10	New building; before 1900 extended to II / p / 13
1820-1823	Marx	St. Marcus Church		I / p	7th	New building; largely preserved
1828	Böhmerwold	Šumava Church		I / p	7th	New building using older pipes; almost completely preserved
1827-1829	Uttum	Uttum Church		I.	9	Transfer of the organ (around 1660) after the church renovation to the east gallery → organ of the Uttum church
1830	Osteel	Warnfried Church		II / p	13	Transfer and reconstruction of the organ by Edo Evers (1619) on the east gallery after reconstruction of the church → Organ of the Warnfried Church (Osteel)
1827-1833	Roggenstede	Roggensteder Church		I / p	8th	New building; largely preserved
1837	Spiekeroog	Old island church		I.		New construction of a small organ, which was financed by the mountain wages of a ship loaded with oil; not received
1838	Collinghorst	Trinity Church		I / p	8th	New building; largely preserved; Restored in 2007 by Bartelt Immer

In addition, Rohlfs carried out numerous repairs on East Frisian organs.

See also

• List of organ builders
• List of historical organs in East Frisia

literature

• Walter Kaufmann : The organs of East Frisia. East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 1968.
• Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony. Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3931785505 .
• Harald Vogel, Reinhard Ruge, Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: Organ landscape Ostfriesland. Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1995, ISBN 3928327194 .