Johann Josef Brammertz

Johann Josef Brammertz (born June 5, 1668 in Kornelimünster ; † March 12, 1729 ibid) was a German organ builder and founder of the Brammertz-Gillmann organ workshop.

Life

He grew up as the child of Johann Brammertz and Anna Lovius, niece of Cologne University Rector Wilhelm Lovius , in Kornelimünster near Aachen and learned the trade of organ building. In 1701 he built his first organ for the Evangelical Church in Vogelsang zu Stolberg . The construction of further organs in the area around Kornelimünster followed.

With his wife Elisabeth Wolff he had a daughter, Maria Elisabeth, in 1697. She married his colleague Laurenz Gillmann in 1714 and had 13 children with him.

Succession

In 1729 Laurenz Gillman took over the workshop and finished the organ of the Protestant church on the Finkenberg, which his father-in-law had started. He had good contacts with the higher clergy of the imperial abbey Kornelimünster and presumably also looked after the old organ of the monastery church. In 1738 he repaired the organ of the Reformed community in Düren . His further organ building activities have not yet been researched. He died on July 27, 1740.

Johann Theodor Gillmann, his eldest son, born in 1715, inherited the workshop. With his brother Antonius he led them to a new bloom and built many organs in the Aachen area. Its main work is the new organ of the abbey church in Kornelimünster, built in 1763 on behalf of the abbot Karl Ludwig von Sickingen-Ebernburg , according to plans by the architect Johann Josef Couven .

Works

Gillmann organ in Kornelimünster

Organs by Johann Josef Brammertz

• 1701 Evangelical Church in Vogelsang zu Stolberg (prospectus still preserved)
• 1718 organ case for the Marienthal monastery
• 1727 Franciscan monastery Lechenich (12 registers with attached pedal, later moved to Weilerswist and enlarged in 1860).
• 1728 Catholic parish church Brühl (12 registers, moved to Sinndorf in 1804 )
• 1730 Evangelical Church on the Finkenberg zu Stolberg (14 registers)

Organs by Johann Theodor Gillmann

• 1744 Church in Raeren
• 1763 Abbey Church of Kornelimünster (19 stops on two manuals with attached pedal)
• 1764 Catholic Church in Stolberg (10 registers with attached pedal)
• 1766 Nikolauskirche in Brüggen (12 registers and 9 registers in positive, rear-playing parapet instrument)

literature

• Hefte des Aachener Geschichtsverein, Aachen ??, pp. 454–457
• G. Lohmann and K. Schleicher: History of the Protestant Church in Stolberg, Issue 10, Stolberg 1957, p. 28
• K. Dreimüller: The old organ of the Protestant church Linnich, manuscript 1955