Johann Simon Buchholz

Obituary for Johann Simon Buchholz in the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung from March 1825

Johann Simon Buchholz (born September 27, 1758 in Schloßvippach , † February 24, 1825 in Berlin ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Buchholz learned his trade with Adam Heinrich Rietz in Magdeburg , with his later brother-in-law Johann Wilhelm Grüneberg in Brandenburg and with Ernst Julius Marx in Berlin. Buchholz founded his own workshop there in 1790. He is considered one of the most important Prussian organ builders and built over 30 organs.

On November 25, 1788, Buchholz married Dorothea Sophia Meier, the youngest daughter of the Brandenburg bookbinder Johann Anton Peter Meier. The wedding took place in the house of his brother-in-law Johann Wilhelm Grüneberg. Their son Carl August Buchholz also became an organ builder. Between 1812 and 1825 Johann Simon Buchholz built 19 organs together with his son Carl August. The organ with the largest original collection in Germany is the organ of the St. Marien Church (Barth) .

Works

Between 1812 and 1825, Johann Simon built the organs listed below together with his son Carl August (sorted alphabetically by place name). The sources relate on the one hand to the information on the location, place, year of construction, original condition and on the other hand to the whereabouts and condition:

year	place	building	image	Manuals	Rows of pipes	Remarks
1812	Altentreptow	St. Peter's Church		II / P	23	Parts and registers integrated into an organ built by Barnim Grüneberg in 1865 , renovated in 2002/2003. II / P 31
1817	Berlin	(Old) Dom		II / P	32	?
1817	Neulietzegöricke	Ev. church		I.	2	?
1817	New Hardenberg	Ev. church		II / P	21st	?
1818	Demmin	St. Bartholomew		II / P	40	→ Organ of the St. Bartholomew Church (Demmin)
1819	Ahrensfelde	Ahrensfelde Church		I.	5
1820	Baruth / Mark	City parish church of St. Sebastian		II / P	21st	replaced
1820	Britz (near Eberswalde)	Ev. church		I / P	7th	receive
1820	Gristow	Ev. Village church		I / P	15th	→ organ → organ
1821	Berlin-Schöneberg	Ev. church		I / P	11	?
1821	Barth	St. Mary's Church		II / P	42	→ Organ of the St. Marien Church (Barth)
1821	Greifswald	St. Jakobi Church		II / P	28	Instrument destroyed in a tower fire in 1955
1822	Wachow	Ev. church		I / p	10	receive
1822	Berlin	Institute for Church Music		II / P	13	Today: Petkus Church
1823	Rixdorf b. Berlin	Bethlehem Church (Berlin-Neukölln)		I / p	9 (4 of which also transmitted as pedal registers)	Relocated to the Alt Gaarz village church in 1895 , restored and relocated to the Marienkirche Nossendorf in 2018/2019
1823	Seelübbe	Ev. church		II / P		?
1823	Teltow	St. Andrew's Church		I / P	17th	?
1824	Stargard Szczeciński	St. Mary's Church		III / P	32	?
1825	Osterburg	St. Nikolai Church		II / P	22nd	rebuilt several times; Restored in 2011 by Kristian Wegscheider (Dresden)

literature

• Wolf Bergelt (Ed.): "Your deeply saddened papa". A contribution to Buchholz research . Freimut & Selbst, Berlin 1996.
• Salomon Kümmerle: Buchholz, company . In: Encyclopedia of Protestant Church Music . tape 1 . Gütersloh 1888, p. 196 f .
• Uwe Pape : Buchholz, family . In: Music in the past and present 2 . Person part, band 3 . Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel / Stuttgart 2000, Sp. 1179–1183.
• Wolf Bergelt: Organ tours through the Mark Brandenburg. BoD - Books on Demand, 2017, ISBN 978-3-743-15217-5 , p. 156 ( limited preview in Google book search)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolf Bergelt : The Mark Brandenburg . Pape, 1989, ISBN 978-3-921-14032-1 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
2. ^ Matthias Gretzschel: Organs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Saved for the time . Hamburger Abendblatt Axel Springer AG, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-921305-26-8 .
3. ^ Organ consecration in the church of Nossendorf. Evangelical Church in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, August 17, 2019, accessed on September 18, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Buchholz organ St. Nikolai in Osterburg. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .