Johann Wilhelm Gruneberg

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Grüneberg (* 1751 in Zerbst ; † August 21, 1808 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a German organ builder .

Life

He belongs to an organ builder family who came from the Magdeburg region and later settled in Pomerania , who ran organ building workshops in Stettin and Greifswald . His father was the organ builder Philipp Wilhelm Grüneberg .

He worked with Gottlieb Scholtze in Neuruppin , among others , but settled in Brandenburg an der Havel in 1775 . From then on he built his own instruments in the tradition of Joachim Wagner , whose pupils included his mentor Scholtze.

Along with Scholtze and Ernst Julius Marx , he is considered to be the most important organ builder in the Brandenburg region in the second half of the 18th century. In addition to his son Johann Carl Wilhelm Grüneberg, his pupils also included his brother-in-law Johann Simon Buchholz .

Grüneberg's residential and workshop building, the “Freyhaus” built in 1723, is still completely preserved and is located in the main street in Brandenburg.

Johann Wilhelm Grüneberg was married twice. On January 25, 1776, he married Maria Dorothea Dahlbritz, the daughter of the Brandenburg master mason, Johann Dahlbritz, who died in 1779. In the same year he married the daughter of the Brandenburg bookbinder Johann Peter Anton Meier, Johanna Sophia Meier, with whom he had a son, Johann Carl Wilhelm Grüneberg (born January 8, 1781).

Proven works (selection)

He is said to have created a total of eleven instruments:

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1783	Berlin-Spandau	Reformed St. John's Church		I / P	13	In 1902 moved to the village church in Bärenklau (the Spandau church was demolished in 1902). After the implementation from Berlin-Spandau, several registers were removed (I / P / 10). In 1917 the tin prospectus pipes were confiscated and melted down for war purposes. In 1928 Alexander Schuke repaired the organ and built in new prospect pipes made of zinc. From 1991 the organ was restored in the workshop of the company Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau GmbH on the basis of organ building files found in Spandau and set up in the French Church in Potsdam . At Easter 2000 the organ was played again. With thirteen registers, the organ is now the largest of the surviving instruments made by this organ builder. → organ
1787	Mittenwalde	St. Moritz Church				The plant was replaced around 1890 by a new building by W. Sauer Orgelbau Frankfurt (Oder) , which in 1959 was replaced by a new building by Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen . Prospectus received
1793	Brandenburg on the Havel	St. Johannis		I / P	15th	1814 sale and transfer to Plaue , 1845 restoration by Johann Friedrich Turley , 1912 extension by Emil Heerwagen , 1984 restoration by Fahlberg Orgelbau; today II / P / 17; received some registers
1794	Saarmund	Village church				Replaced in 1840
1798	Magdeburg	Church of Saint Catherine				1882 sold to the Bonhoeffer Church (Friedrichsbrunn), where it was renovated
1798	Genthin	St. Trinity				Replaced in 1913 by Wilhelm Rühlmann ; Prospectus received

Web links

• Organ builder of the Brandenburg organ landscape. Retrieved September 17, 2012 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information board at the church