Johann Heinrich Wohlien

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Painting by JH Wohliens by his son Christoph Wilhelm Wohlien (1835)

Johann Heinrich Wohlien (* 1779 in Hamburg , † 1842 in Altona ; also Johann Hinrich , also Wohlin and Wollin ) was an organ builder from Altona .

He was a member of the well-known family of organ builders, Wohlien . Johann Heinrich Wohlien was born as the son of the organ builder Balthasar Wohlien (* 1745 in Wilster, † 1804 in Hamburg), the son-in-law of Johann Paul Geycke . His only brother was the piano and organ builder Lorenz Rudolph Wohlien , with whom he formed the second generation of the family business.

Johann Heinrich Wohlien moved the workshop to Altona. At times he worked with his uncle Joachim Wilhelm Geycke . After 1804 the workshop was separated and Wohlien merged with Johann Carl Eduard Erdland. With the grandson Johann Friedrich Eduard Wohlien (1843–1871), son of Johann Conrad Rudolph Wohlien , the company closed down.

List of works

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1680 Cappel St. Peter and Paul Cappel 02.jpg II / P 30th Packaging of the organ of the Hamburg Dominican Monastery of St. Johannis by Arp Schnitger (1680) for the transport to Cappel (1816) → Organ by St. Peter and Paul (Cappel)
1818 Puerto de la Cruz ( Tenerife ) Nuestra Señora de la Peña de Francia
San Francisco de la Pena - Organ.jpg
 II / p 12 New building, together with Joachim Wilhelm Geycke
1819 Ritzebüttel Village church II / P Installation of the organ bought from the Hamburg Heilig-Geist-Hospital, together with Joachim Wilhelm Geycke; ten old parts were taken over into the new organ from 1972
1821/22 Hamburg St. Pauli Church HH St.Pauli organ.jpg II / P 29 New building; not received; 2011 New building by Bartelt Always based on Wohlien (II / P / 20) (photo)
1833 Altona Main Church of Saint Trinity modification

literature

  • Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 .
  • Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 .
  • Gustav Fock: Hamburg's share in organ building in the Low German cultural area . In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History . No. 38 , 1939, pp. 289-373 (on- line ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fock: Hamburg's share in organ building in the Low German cultural area . 1939, p. 369 ( online ).
  2. ^ Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Master Organ Builders. 1991, p. 342.
  3. ↑ Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas . Verlag Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 , p. 72.
personal data
SURNAME Wohlien, Johann Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wohlien, Johann Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Organ builder from Altona
DATE OF BIRTH 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 1842
Place of death Altona