Johannes Strebel

This article deals with the organ builder Johannes Strebel. For other people see Johann Strebel .

Organ building institute Strebel
legal form	Sole proprietorship
founding	1884
Seat	Nuremberg , Germany
management	Johannes Strebel
Branch	Organ building

Johannes Strebel

Wilhelm Strebel's written rejection of Walcker's 100th anniversary on August 20, 1920

Johannes Strebel (born January 17, 1832 in Forchtenberg , † June 20, 1909 in Nuremberg ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Johannes Strebel was the first child of a large family of priests of Franconian origin. Johannes' father, Johann Valentin, came from Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia , but was not allowed to exercise the office of pastor there because of his membership in the Bubenreuth fraternity . Thereupon the Evangelical Church in Württemberg accepted him and gave him a pastor's position in Roßwangen in 1858 . He died on May 11, 1883. His mother, Johanna Emilia Magdalena Harleß (born 1809 in Nuremberg ), came from the Franconian family of scholars Harleß, she was the granddaughter of Gottlieb Christoph Harleß , her brothers were Adolf Harleß and Emil Harleß . Johannes' brother was the agricultural economist Ernst Valentin von Strebel .

Johannes Strebel began his career as an organ builder in 1848 with a six-year apprenticeship in the Ludwigsburg organ building workshop of Eberhard Friedrich Walcker . After two years as a journeyman there, he worked for another two years with Georg Friedrich Steinmeyer in Oettingen , who had also been trained by Walcker. He trained as a harmonium maker at Schiedmayer in Stuttgart from 1858. Then he went "on a roll " to Barmen to the piano maker Ibach and to Paris to Aristide Cavaillé-Coll . He turned down the offer to represent his company in Spain and returned to join Steinmeyer in 1864 as a partner in a management position. The company experienced a steep rise in the following twenty years. Strebel was u. a. Head of harmonium construction.

After he left Steinmeyer and had made room for a younger generation, Strebel founded his own "organ building institute" in Nuremberg in 1884 at the age of 52 . First he built organs for various village churches in Franconia and the Upper Palatinate . Around 25 instruments belong to the era of the mechanical cone chest , which was replaced by the pneumatic action as early as 1891. In 1890, Strebel had Friedrich Weigle in Echterdingen transfer the rights for the sole use of the pneumatic system in Bavaria and one of his employees was thoroughly trained in it. Standing pocket shops were later used, the inventor of which Friedrich Witzig had been employed in Strebel's company since 1895. A year later he built his first larger organ with two manuals and 32 registers for the “Heilige Dreifaltigkeit” church in Regensburg .

The company profile has not changed for years. Strebel delivered several village organs per year and occasionally larger instruments in town churches. Even with the organ for the St. Sebald Church in Nuremberg, which he installed in 1906, Strebel did not go beyond the two-manual nature. The instrument, built in 1905 for the concert hall of the Nuremberg cultural association, had three manuals with 44 registers.

With the founding of the Association of German Organ Builders in 1895, Strebel was supposed to become its first chairman, but at the age of 63 he did not accept the office. In 1908, a year before his death, he handed over the organ building business to his sons Wilhelm (1873-1939) and Hermann (1874-1946). His life's work comprised around 170 mostly smaller organs with one or two manuals. His grave was in the Johannisfriedhof in Nuremberg.

Sons

The sons Wilhelm and Herrmann continued to run the company successfully until the First World War and expanded the sales area to southern Thuringia . With the organ with three manuals and 60 registers installed in the town church of Bayreuth in 1913 , they created a renowned instrument. Other Strebel organs were in synagogues in Fürth and Nuremberg. After the First World War, the brothers gave up their independence and from 1919 worked at Steinmeyer, where their father had already worked. The last work from Strebel's workshop was the organ for the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, in 1920, but the entire building fell victim to a fire in 1923. In 1921 the Strebel brothers transferred the entire company assets to the Oettinger company. Until Wilhelm Strebel's death in 1939, Steinmeyer had the addition "Steinmeyer & Strebel" in the company name.

Works (selection)

opus	Construction year	Location	building	image	Manuals	register	Degree of conservation	Comments sources
1	1885	Alfalter	Ev. Church of St. Catherine		I / P	8th	Preserved, good condition on November 3rd, 2015	Mechanical cone tray
	1887	Höchstädt in the Fichtel Mountains	Protestant church		I / P	11	receive	Restored in 1983 by Hey Orgelbau
12	1889	Rothenburg ob der Tauber	Franciscan Church		II / P	14th	receive	1992 Restoration of the Sandtner organ building .
	1889	Sankt Helena, municipality of Simmelsdorf	Protestant church		I / P	9	receive	In the case by Elias Hößler 1726
	1890	Bischofsgrün	Protestant church		II / P	18th	receive	Restored in 1988 by Hey Orgelbau
	1891	Langenzenn -Laubendorf	Protestant church		I / P	7th	receive	Restored in 1989 by Hey Orgelbau
	1892	regensburg	Trinity Church		II / P	32	not received	Prospectus pipes received. 2020 new building Hendrik Ahrend
	1892	Schney	St. Mary's Church		II / P	16	partially preserved	1957 conversion by Otto Hoffmann
49	1895	Oberhöchstadt	Protestant church		I / P	12	receive	Restored in 1993 by Hey Orgelbau
57	1896	Retirement home	Village church		I / P	9	receive	Mechanical cone tray.
	1896	Küps -Burkersdorf	Evangelical Parish Church of St. Mary		II / P	12	not received
	1898	Henfenfeld	Protestant church		II / P	14th	receive
	1900	Dühren	Evangelical St. Michael Church		I / P	5	receive	Restored in 1987 by Hey Orgelbau
	1901	Bischwind	Protestant church		I / P	7th	receive	Restored in 1987 by Hey Orgelbau
	1901	Gemünda in Upper Franconia	Protestant church		II / P	12	receive	Restored in 1999 by Hey Orgelbau
	1902	Pastures	St. Michael		II / P	24	not received	pneumatic cone tray. Current: Max Reger Memorial Organ ( Weimbs Orgelbau 2007, 53 / III / P)
107	1903	Burghaslach -Kirchrimbach	Christ Church		II / P	14th	not received
	1903	Schernau	Parish Church of St. Andrew		II / P	12	receive	with pneumatic pocket drawer
108	1903	Ottensoos	Evangelical parish church of St. Veit		II / P	13	receive	New organ in the case by Elias Hößler (1694)
	1904	Koenigsberg in Bavaria	Marienkirche		II / P	13	receive	New building in the housing of Matthias Tretzscher (1660)
112	1904	Happurg	Protestant church		II / P	14th	receive	New organ in the case by Elias Hößler (1728)
	1905	Koenigstein (Upper Palatinate)	St. George		I / P	10	receive	In the atypical case by Funtsch, 1753
	1905	Nuremberg	Cultural association		III / P	44	not received	one of the few three-manual organs of Strebel
	1905	Wirbenz	Evangelical Church of St. Johannis		II / P	16	receive	renovation following the church renovation is planned
	1906	Rugendorf	Evangelical Luth. Parish Church of St. Jakob & St. Erhard		II / P	12	receive	Restored in 2006 by Orgelbau Zeilhuber
	1906	Weißenbrunn	Trinity Church		II / P	16	receive	Restored in 2000 by Hey Orgelbau
	1906	Wurzburg	Mariannhill Monastery Crypt		II / P	12	receive	The organ was built for Schauerheim in 1906 and transferred to Würzburg in 2005/2006. New brochure (photo), the old one remained in Schauerheim.
	1904/1906	Nuremberg	St. Sebald		II / P	10	not received	1904: Engelschor organ, burned in 1945. 1906 main organ
	1909	Lehrberg	Evangelical St. Margaret Church		II / P	11	receive	1972 Reconstruction and reorganization of Koch / Feuchtwangen
	1909	Fuerth	synagogue		II / P	12	destroyed with the synagogue
	1911	Lauscha	Evangelical town church		II / P	28	receive	Restored in 2001 by Rösel & Hercher
	1911	Stadtsteinach	Catholic parish church of St. Michael		II / P	26th	receive	1960 Sound modification and conversion to electropneumatic action by Max Thierauf (Eusebius Dietmann). April 2020: Basic cleaning and mold removal → Organ from St. Michael (Stadtsteinach)
	1912	Wernshausen	Protestant church		II / P	15th	receive	2010 Restoration of Hey Orgelbau
	1912	Edelsfeld	St. Stephan		I / P	9	received, completely refurbished in 2019 by Kilbert	In the case by Elias Hößler , 1698
	1912	Kelheim	St. Matthew		II / P	12	receive	1988 von Eisenbarth expanded to 13 registers
	1913	Bayreuth	City Church		III / P	60	not received	Burned in 1918
	1913	Röthenbach on the Pegnitz	Evangelical Holy Cross Church		II / P	32	received, 2002 general overhaul
	1913	Nuremberg	St. Paul Church		II / P	22nd	receive	1319 pipes. Pneumatic play and stop actions.
	1914	Hausen	St. Peter and Paul Church		I / P	4th	receive	with pneumatic pocket drawer
	1914	Neunkirchen near Weiden in the Upper Palatinate	Protestant church		II / P	11	receive	1964 Renovation of Dentler / Siegen
	1915	Gattendorf	Gattendorf parish church		II / P	9	receive	Restored in 1999 by Hey Orgelbau
	1916	Redwitz an der Rodach	Evangelical Parish Church of St. Aegidius		II / P	14th	receive	The organ (?) Rebuilt by Strebel was restored in 1984 by Hey Orgelbau
	1916	Graefenthal	Evangelical St. Mary's Church		II / P	29	receive	Behind a baroque prospect, rebuilt in 1945
	1917	Hamburg	Crypt in the Hamburg Michel		II / P	7th	receive	Expanded super-octave coupling. Restored in 2009/2010, electric console → organ
	1920	Dornach (Switzerland)	Goetheanum				not received	Burned in 1923

Web links

Commons : Johannes Strebel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Invitation to the 100th anniversary of death at Myheimat.de
• Organ database Bavaria, Version 5 (2009), ed. by Michael Bernhard
• Information and pictures about the sons Wilhelm and Herrmann Strebel from the Steinmeyer archive on Facebook

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website of the Bubenreuther ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Funeral oration of Johanna Strebel geb. Harleß, 1882 near Dittmar / Vaihingen
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} The historical Strebel organ (1913) of the parish church of St. Paul in Nuremberg
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Bavarian organ database
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Website of Hey Orgelbau
6. ^ Sandtner organ building - information. In: sandtner-orgelbau.de. Retrieved August 10, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Martina Topp: The organ in the Dreieinigkeitskirche in Regensburg. In: Roma Quanta fuit. Wißner, Augsburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89639-799-7 . P. 655 ff.
8. ↑ Kleinweisach website ( Memento of the original dated September 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Information on the homepage of the company Zeilhuber ( Memento of the original of July 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 17, 2016 
10. ^ Mariannhill website , accessed December 31, 2016.