Johannes Creutzburg

Creutzburg organ in Duderstadt, St. Cyriakus (1735)

Johannes Creutzburg (born June 8, 1686 in Wendehausen ; ⚰ June 5, 1738 in Duderstadt ) was a master organ builder in Central Germany during the Baroque period .

Life

Born in the small Eichsfelddorf Wendehausen in Thuringia , Johannes learned organ building there before 1710 from his father-in-law Michael Thon, whose daughter, Christina, he married in 1711. With her he has two children, Elisabeth and Michael. In 1710/1711 he can be traced back to Sontra as a journeyman of the Schnitger pupil Johann Adam Gundermann. From 1711 to 1716 he was again a journeyman with Michael Thon. From 1716 he worked in Wendehausen as an independent organ, harpsichord and clavichord builder. Later he moved his workshop to Duderstadt. In recognition of the outstanding construction of the organ there in the parish church of St. Cyriakus, he was granted citizenship of the city on June 6, 1736, combined with tax exemption. He was buried on June 5, 1738 in Duderstadt. His brother Daniel was also an organ builder and worked as such in Ershausen .

List of works

Due to fortunate circumstances, Creutzburg's diary and workshop book has been preserved to this day. It was kept for a long time in the Krell organ building workshop located in Duderstadt. Today it is stored in the Duderstadt Propsteiarchiv. Up to the year 1735 the following organ works by the master are named and described:

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1716	Herora	Johanniskirche		I.	5	not received
1718	"Härmen" (?)			II / P	14th	Location not identifiable
1710/1720	Sontra	Evangelical town church St. Marien		II / P	21st	Extension of the organ by Johann Adam Gundermann (1711), new buildings in 1934 and 1964 behind Gundermann prospect
1721	Beberstedt	Martins Church		I / P	7th	not received, acceptance test by JG Heutzenröder, Duderstadt
1723	Obernfeld	St. Blaise		II / P	18th	Housing parts preserved, otherwise Krell 1913
1723	Teistungenburg	Monastery church		II / P	18th	now in St. Andreas, Teistungen , housing partially preserved
1724	Rambach	Ev. church		I / P	8th	historical prospectus preserved, behind it today new work
1727-1728	Latitude	St. Vitus				no information, not received
1731	Keyings	St. Gallus		I / P	10	Windchest, action, pedal keyboard, bellows system, some mixing pipes and case have been preserved
1731	Eschwege	Market Church		II / P	27	stolen pipework replaced, not preserved
1732	Eschwege	Neustadt Church		II / P	34	second largest work with the large pedal register, base 32 ′, new building in 1838, Creutzburg organ not preserved
1721	Bernterode			I.	4th	removed by 1866 at the latest
?	?				12	no year, Stinelstätt (? possibly Dingelstädt - or recording of the existing organ in Küllstedt?), location not verifiable
1733-1735	Duderstadt	St. Cyriac		III / P	41	About 700 pipes and the prospectus preserved, restored and reconstructed by Eule in 2006 . → organ
1735	Leinefelde ?
1735/1736	Beienrode ?			I / P	8th?	Housing (changed) and keyboards preserved, otherwise Heyder (1854)
1735/1736	Helmsdorf	St. Peter and Paul				not received
1738	Küllstedt			II / P	24	completed by his son-in-law Joh. Michael Kahlert; not received

literature

• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . tape 1 : Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 , pp. 46 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area. 2009, p. 46.
2. ^ Association for the Promotion of the Restoration of the Creutzburg Organ […] e. V. (Hrsg.): The organ of Johannes Creutzburg zu Duderstadt. Festschrift for the re-inauguration. 2006, p. 14 ff.
3. ↑ Bernhard Sacrifice man : shaping the calibration field. A biographical lexicon. Verlag Cordier, Heiligenstadt 1999, p. 62
4. ^ Association for the Promotion of the Restoration of the Creutzburg Organ […] e. V. (Hrsg.): The organ of Johannes Creutzburg zu Duderstadt. Festschrift for the re-inauguration. 2006, p. 14 ff.