Johannes Schlottmann

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Johann Schlottmann (born May 30, 1726 in Heringen (Werra) , † April 24, 1795 in Landau near Arolsen) was a German organ builder who worked in Upper Hesse in the 18th century .

Life

Johann (es) Schlottmann was born as the son of Johann Conrad Schlottmann, pastor in Heringen, and the pastor's daughter Anna Katharina Rhode. His grandfather of the same name was also a pastor. On June 3, 1726 Johann Georg Schlottmann was godfather, a brother of the father and also a pastor. Nothing is known about Schlottmann's training. After his apprenticeship and traveling years, he married Anna Maria Lampmann on December 28, 1752, with whom he had 13 children. In addition to Johann Andreas Heinemann , Schlottmann was active in East Hesse in the second half of the 18th century. Life was characterized by disputes about the local privileged organ builders and the financial ruin as a result of the new organ in Fritzlar . The contract of April 26, 1768 provided for a three-manual organ with 38 registers, which will only be half finished by 1773. After several complaints about his default, bankruptcy proceedings were opened against Schlottmann in 1775 and his Friedewald workshop was auctioned. He lost all his possessions and remained in financial difficulties and under deadline pressure throughout his life.

In the course of the new organ building in Rauschenberg, the family moved to Marburg in 1775 and to Spangenberg in 1783. After further unfinished organ projects, such as in the town church Spangenberg, where Schlottmann had been active since 1782, there were renewed allegations, which in 1788 led to a five-week arrest and a further four weeks in prison. In 1789 the Marburg consistory issued a work ban and expelled him from the country. In the last few years Schlottmann has mainly been doing repair services in Hessen-Darmstadt. On January 11, 1791, the city of Biedenkopf signed a contract to build a new organ because it erroneously assumed that the privileged organ builder Heinemann had died. When the work remained unfinished in 1792 and Schlottmann " escaped secretly as a fraudster ", the city auctioned the tools he had left behind. His wife died in 1798.

From today's perspective, many allegations against Schlottmann can be explained by damage to reputation on the part of his competitors and his lack of profitability. The few surviving works show no quality defects and are characterized by their artistically independent brochure design.

Works (selection)

In addition to its richly decorated rococo organ in Spieskappel Monastery (1769–1771), a number of brochures have survived.

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1752 Friedewald (Hesse) Ev. church II / P 14th New building
around 1752 Kleinensee Ev. church New building
1753-1755 Bad Hersfeld City Church New building; not received
around 1755 Hönebach Ev. church Attribution; partially preserved
1754-1757 Ottrau Ev. church New building; Prospectus and partly pipework preserved
after 1760 Schrecksbach Ev. church New building; Fragments of the prospectus preserved
1764 Willingshausen Ev. church New building; 1765 by Schlottmann extended by 2 registers; Prospectus received
1766 Röllshausen Ev. church I / P 10 New building; not received
1766-1768 Low limit stream Ev. church New building
1768-1773 Fritzlar Fritzlar Cathedral III / P The prospectus started by Schlottmann, completed in 1776 by Johann Gottlieb Müller
1769-1771 Spieskappel (Frielendorf) Spieskappel Monastery receive
1774-1776 Rauschenberg Ev. church
1780 Niederaula Ev. church
Niederaula Evangelische KIrche-004.jpg
 1929 extensive reconstruction by Georg Nuhn; 2007 reconstruction by Vleugels
1775-1781 Niederasphe Ev. church Brochure received without pedal wing
1782-1786 Spangenberg Ev. church Prospectus received in the form changed in 1859
1784-1788 Angersbach Protestant church Wartenberg Angersbach Protestant Church Organ if.png Prospectus received
1788 Waltersbrück Ev. church I / P 10 New building, rebuilt several times; Housing and some registers preserved
1791-1792 Rosenthal (Hesse) Ev. church I / P Replaced in 1888
1791-1792 Biedenkopf City Church I / P 15th Completed by journeymen

literature

  • Gerhard Aumüller , Eckhard Trinkaus: Organ building in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district . In: Friedhelm Brusniak, Hartmut Wecker (ed.): Music in Waldeck-Frankenberg. Music history of the district . Bing, Korbach 1997, ISBN 3-87077-098-8 , pp. 144-202 .
  • Gabriele Nina Bode, Michael Losse: The "fortified church" in Niederasphe. Historical-art-historical analysis of a central Hessian "village church" . In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies . tape 104 , 1999, pp. 37-76 .
  • Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.1 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 1: A-K . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 .
  • Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.1 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 1: A-L . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 .
  • Dieter Grossmann: Organs and Organ Builders in Hesse (=  contributions to Hessian history . Volume 12 ). 2nd Edition. Trautvetter & Fischer, Marburg 1998, ISBN 3-87822-109-6 .
  • Eckhard Trinkaus: organs and organ builders in the former district of Ziegenhain (Hessen) (=  publications of the historical commission for Hessen . Volume 43 ). Elwert, Marburg 1981, ISBN 3-7708-0713-8 , pp. 283-298 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Trinkaus: organs and organ builders in the former district of Ziegenhain (Hesse). 1981, p. 283.
  2. ^ Trinkaus: organs and organ builders in the former district of Ziegenhain (Hesse). 1981, p. 287 f.
  3. ^ Aumüller, Trinkaus: Organ building in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district . 1997, p. 136 f.
  4. ^ Trinkaus: organs and organ builders in the former district of Ziegenhain (Hesse). 1981, pp. 295-297.
  5. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2, part 1. 1975, p. 79.
  6. ^ Trinkaus: organs and organ builders in the former district of Ziegenhain (Hesse). 1981, p. 296 f.
  7. ^ Grossmann: Organs and Organ Builders in Hessen . 1998, p. 136 f.
  8. ↑ A brief overview of works can be found in Bode, Losse: The "Wehrkirche" in Niederasphe . 1999, p. 74, in detail at Trinkaus: Organs and Organ Builders in the former Ziegenhain district (Hesse). 1981, pp. 283-298.
  9. ^ Grossmann: Organs and Organ Builders in Hessen . 1998, p. 136.
  10. ↑ Bode, Losse: The "fortified church" in Niederasphe . 1999, p. 59 f.
  11. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3, part 1. 1988, p. 67.
personal data
SURNAME Schlottmann, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlottmann, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH Herring (Werra)
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1795
Place of death Landau (Bad Arolsen)