Johann Heinrich Brinkmann

Johann Heinrich Brinkmann (born June 20, 1794 in Oesterweg, Versmold municipality , Westphalia, † June 24, 1848 ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Brinkmann received his training at Melchior Vorenweg in Münster and in 1819 settled in Herford as an independent organ builder . In the same year he repaired the organ in the Marienkirche in Lemgo and installed a new organ in the local Catholic church between 1825 and 1828 .

From 1829 he was also active in the Emsland , the organ in the Bonifatius Church in Lingen represents a high point of his work.

In 1840 he was commissioned to build a new organ for the Church of St. Ursula in Cologne , where he moved from Herford in 1841. However, since he was unable to assert himself there against his competitor Engelbert Maaß, he had to take on a large amount of work in the Cologne area. In 1843 this also included the execution of the organ for the Catholic parish church of St. Georg in Frauenberg (today part of Euskirchen ).

However, Brinkmann took too many orders that he could not carry out carefully enough. The organ of St. Ursula turned out to be so defective that it had to be replaced after just twenty years. The parish council of a church in Sieglar (today part of Troisdorf ) even considered legal action against him because of an inadequate new organ, which, however, no longer came because of his death on June 24, 1848.

literature

• Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland, 1990, ISSN  0177-2619