Johann Gotthilf Bärmig

Bärmig organ of the town church Zum Friedefürst in Klingenthal, 1872

Johann Gotthilf Bärmig (born May 13, 1815 in Werdau ; † October 26, 1899 there ) was a German organ builder .

Live and act

The student of Borna organ builder Urban Kreutzbach ran his own "organ building establishment" in Werdau, Saxony , from 1846 . In 1854 he received the "Silver State Medal" for his work. His organ building workshop was taken over by Kreutzbach's grandson Georg Emil Müller at Whitsun 1887 .

Preserved works

According to the organ file of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony, a total of 41 Bärmig organs have been preserved in the following locations:

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1851	Lauterbach
1852	Königswalde	Jacobi Church
1852	Breitenbrunn	St. Christophorus Church		II / P	16
1853	Strießen at Priestewitz	St. John's Church				Procurement as part of the new church building in 1852/1853
1854	God green	Village church of Gottesgrün		II / P	8th	Has a melodicon in manual II. Instrument restored by Orgelbau Schüssler / Vogtl. Organ building Th. Wolf
1855	Langenhessen	St. Johannis				1919 by the company Schmeisser , Rochlitz, rebuilt and in 1997 cleaned and restored by the company Georg Wünning , Großolbersdorf.
1857	Herwigsdorf	Village church		II	17th
1858/1859	Schöneck	George's Church
1859	Kittlitz	Trinity Church
1860	Aue	Nikolaikirche			14th	1895 moved to Klösterlein cell .
(1861)	Heinrichsort	Heinrichsort Church
1862	Bloßwitz (near Stauchitz )	Bloßwitz Church
1862	Bobenneukirchen (near Bösenbrunn )	Village church
1862	Misslareuth	Johanneskirche
1863	Carlsfeld	Trinity Church		II / P	14th	At its core is a Bärmig organ, but it was fundamentally rebuilt by Jehmlich in 1912.
1863	Knight green	Rittersgrün Church		II / P	22nd
1863	Steinbach	Village church
1864	Annaberg-Buchholz	Hospital Church of St. Trinity		II / P	17th	Organ preserved, renewed in 1968 by Hermann Eule (Bautzen)
1864	Hundshübel	Village church
1865	Gablenz
1866	Oberwiesenthal	Martin Luther Church		II / P	26th
1866	Voigtsdorf	Village church		II / P	25th
1867	Etzdorf	Parish Church of St. Mary
1867	Friedrichsgrün (near Reinsdorf )	Friedrichsgrün Church
1867	Großhermsdorf
1868	Dennheritz					Comprehensively restored in 2016 by Bochmann (Kohren-Sahlis), reinstallation of the historical bellows elevator system with three box bellows
1868	Waldsachsen
1869	Langenchursdorf
1869	Langenreinsdorf	Village church
1869	Upper angle
1870	Kemnitz	Kemnitz Church
1870	Neukirchen
1870	Vielau	Peter and Paul Church		II / P	20th	Rebuilt in 1939 by Orgelbau A. Schuster & Sohn
1871	Erlbach	Village church		II / P	20th	largely preserved
1872	Klingenthal	Round Church of the Prince of Peace		II / P	24	Repaired by Rühle (Dresden) in 1982.
1872	Disappearance	Village church
1873	Flea	George Church		II / P	24	Comprehensively renovated in 2015
1874	Sosa	Village church
1875	Bärnsdorf	Village church
1875	Beiersdorf	Village church
1876	Blankenhain
1877	Grünstädtel	St. Anne's Church		II / P	19th
1878	Gesau	St. Andrew's Church				1996–2005 Overhaul and reconstruction of organ building Schüßler / Vogtland organ building Th. Wolf

literature

• Otto Hasse: Saxon organ building in the 19th century . In: magazine for church musicians . tape 19 , 1937, pp. 66-68 .
• Walter Hüttel: Bärmig, Johann Gotthilf . In: Music in the past and present . Person part, band 2 . Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel / Stuttgart 1999.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Church administration and parish council of Herwigsdorf : Recognition . In: Leipziger Zeitung . No. 277 , November 22, 1857, pp. 5843 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
2. ↑ Carlsfeld (Erzgebirge), St. Trinity Church on organindex.de
3. ↑ Knut Berger: Beauty treatment for a queen. In: Free Press . September 4, 2015, accessed September 4, 2015 .