Johannes Wilhelmus Timpe

Johannes Wilhelmus Timpe (baptized April 17, 1770 in Glane near Bad Iburg , † June 7, 1837 in Groningen ) was a German - Dutch organ builder .

life and work

Johannes Wilhelmus Timpe came from the Osnabrück region , where he was baptized in the Catholic Church in Glane. His father Bernhard Heinrich Timpe († 1782) was a farmer. Johannes Wilhelmus Timpe married the maid Petronella le Jeune on January 3, 1803 (* 1773; † April 27, 1863). Three children were born to the two of them, the two daughters Anna Maria (* August 9, 1822 - July 24, 1826) and Emmerantia Anna Catharina (* April 29, 1824) as well as the son Bernardus Nicolaas (* August 26, 1815; † 4 November 1840). In 1830 he was still out of work, but in 1834 he was referred to as an organ builder. Because of his health problems and his short stature (152.5 cm), he was released from military service for a year and then for another year. He increasingly took over activities in his father's company, so that it was renamed "JWTimpe & Zoon". This is also due to the fact that JW Timpe's health deteriorated more and more in the last years of his life. His wife died in the Catholic poor house in Groningen.

Johannes Wilhelmus Timpe initially worked in organ building in the workshop of Nicolaus Anthony Lohmann (1766–1835) in Groningen. From 1806 to 1812 he was a master craftsman with Heinrich Hermann Freytag and after his death he completed the organs in Oostwold (1811) and Warffum (1812). Then he went into business for himself. A total of 17 works by Timpe, who worked in the tradition of classical Groningen organ building, are proven.

Petrus van Oeckelen , who had specialized in organ building at Timpe, took over the workshop after Timpe's death. Another journeyman Timpe was Wilhelm Caspar Joseph Höffgen .

List of works (selection)

The Roman number denotes the number of manuals , a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal , a lower-case "p" denotes an attached pedal and the Arabic number indicates the number of sounding registers.

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1811	Oostwold	Hervormde kerk		II / p	18th	Completion of the Freytag organ ( final intonation ); 1860 rearrangement by P. v. Oeckelen; largely preserved
1812	Warffum	Hervormde kerk		II / P	24	New construction started by Freytag was mainly carried out by Timpe; largely preserved
1813-1815	Zutphen	Walburgiskerk		III / P	38	Extension of the Bader organ (1643)
1816	Groningen	Doopsgezinde kerk				New building; Replaced in 1960
1818	Zutphen	St. Jan				New building
1818	Emden	New Church		II / P	30th	only new building in Germany; Destroyed in 1944
1819	Bedum	Maria ten Hemelopneming				New building; not received
1820	Blankenham	St. Nicolaas				New building; Replaced in 1893
1821	Groningen	St. Dominicuskerk		I.		in the Waalsekerk in Zwolle since 1840 (photo); In 1892 it was expanded with two manuals by Jan Proper
1821-1822	Middelbert	Hervormde kerk		II / p	15th	New building; largely preserved
1822	Kantens	Hervormde kerk		II	15th	Renewal measures (new wind chest in the main plant)
1824	Veendam	Hervormde kerk		II / P	33	New building; The case and prospectus pipes have been preserved in the Rückpositiv
1830	Groningen	The aa-kerk		III / P	32	1815–1816 transfer of the Schnitger organ (1702) to the Aa-kerk, 1830 reconstruction and redeployment; largely preserved → organ
1831	Groningen	Nieuwe kerk		III / P	42	New building based on a design drawing by P. v. Oeckelen; largely preserved

literature

• Willem Jan Cevaal: Johannes Wilhelmus Timpe (1770-1837). Orgelmaker te Groningen. Utrecht 1997.
• Peter Karstkarel: All middeleeuwse kerken. Van Harlingen dead Wilhelmshaven . Uitgeverij Noordboek, Groningen 2007, ISBN 90-330-0558-1 .
• Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel (Eds.): The Organ. To Encyclopedia . Routledge, New York / London 2006, ISBN 0-415-94174-1 ( limited preview in Google book search).
• Walter Hans Kaufmann : The organs of East Frisia . East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 1968.
• Ralph Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-929902-62-1 , p. 139 .

Web links

• www.orgelsindrenthe.nl: JWTimpe & Zoon (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ralph Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden . Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-929902-62-1 , p. 139 .
2. ↑ www.orgelsindrenthe.nl: JWTimpe & Zoon (Dutch), viewed June 2, 2017.
3. ^ Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel (ed.): The Organ. To Encyclopedia . Routledge, New York / London 2006, ISBN 0-415-94174-1 , pp. 172 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ^ Douglas E. Bush, Richard Kassel (ed.): The Organ. To Encyclopedia . Routledge, New York, London 2006, ISBN 0-415-94174-1 , pp. 378 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
5. ↑ organ history Veendam , accessed on 17 April 2018th