Jost Sieburg

Jost Sieburg (* around 1605 ; † 1686 ; also Jodokus Sieburg ) was an organ builder from Göttingen who worked between Bremen and Groningen . The organ in Westerhusen (1642–1643) is almost complete, in Sengwarden the prospectus and in Meeden a large part of Sieburg's registers are still preserved.

Life

Sieburg himself testifies that he comes from Göttingen. However, his exact family origin is not clear. Presumably a "Peter von Siborch" is his father who married in to Göttingen. According to an inscription that has now disappeared, Sieburg built an instrument in the St. Stephen's Church (Schortens) in 1640 at the age of 35 , which suggests 1605 as the year of his birth: “ M. Jost Sieborck organ maker zu Wochingen me fecit aetatis suae 35 Anno Christi 1640 ”. His brother Johann Just Sieburg was a citizen and organ builder in Mühlhausen / Thuringia , built an organ in Göttingen from 1617 to 1620 and worked together with Jost in Bremen after 1624. It is not clear whether Johann Siburg , who worked in Göttingen, St. Albani , in 1650 is identical with that brother of Jost Sieburg.

The field of activity expanded from 1624 to Bremen, Oldenburg and the Netherlands. Through relationships with the Aurich court organist Johann Knop, Sieburg may have received commissions in the East Frisian region. In 1675/1676 a Jost Andreas “Sibing” is attested in Hinte , who was possibly his son or nephew.

plant

The size of the instruments is indicated in the fifth column by the number of manuals and the number of sounding registers in the sixth column. A capital “P” stands for an independent pedal, a lowercase “p” for an attached pedal. Italics indicate that the organ in question is no longer preserved.

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1639 and 1643	Uphusen	Uphuser Church				Repair; not received
1640	Schortens	St. Stephen Church		I.		Largely destroyed when the tower collapsed, but pipe material was integrated into the new building by Joachim Kayser (1686), the prospectus obviously rebuilt
1634-1641	Bremen	Church of Our Lady				Participation in the large new organ of his brother Johannes
1641	Emden	Inn church		II		Attribution; New organ with upper work and Rückpositiv
1641-1642	Riepe	Riepster Church				New organ, about which nothing more is known; not received
1642	Aurich	Castle chapel				Reconstruction or rebuilding of the organ, which perhaps goes back to Sieburg; not received
1642-1643	Westerhusen	Westerhuser Church		I.	7th	For this instrument Sieburg has apparently taken over parts of a Gothic predecessor organ, which can still be seen on the lower case and some stops. The organ has a powerful, almost harsh sound. The cutting trumpet from the Renaissance period is one of the oldest in the world , along with the organ in Uttum . The strong mixture gives the plenary a brilliance, which is supported by the pure thirds mood . So the instrument could serve to accompany the congregation singing. This practice of song accompaniment was not introduced in East Friesland until 1640. The restoration by Jürgen Ahrend (1955) had a model character.
1643	Meeden (NL)	Hervormde Kerk		I.	9	Construction of an organ by "Jodocus Siborch", which was renewed in 1751 by Albertus Antonius Hinsz . Most of the Sieburg pipes have been preserved.
1643	Sengwarden	St. George		II		Prospectus received
1645	Visquard	Visquard Church				Repair; not received
1648	Sandhorst	chapel				New building
1648	north	Ludgerikirche		III / p	18th	Repair of the organ by Edo Evers (1618) → Organ of the Ludgerikirche (north)
1647-1653	Groothusen	Groothuser Church				Repair by Jodokus Sieburg (Syborch); not received
1645-1653	Back	Behind church				Repair by “Joest Seborch”; not received
1682	Helmond (NL)	Hervormde Kerk				Repair by “Judocus van Sibergh”, whose identity has not been confirmed; not received

literature

• Walter 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 .
• Uwe Pape , Winfried Topp: organs and organ builders in Bremen . 3. Edition. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-921140-64-1 .
• Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 .
• Harald Vogel, Reinhard Ruge, Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: Organ landscape Ostfriesland . 2nd Edition. Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1997, ISBN 3-928327-19-4 .

See also

• List of organ builders
• List of historical organs in East Frisia

Web links

• Organ Westerhusen on NOMINE eV
• Organ in Meeden (Dutch)
• Organ Westerhusen on orgel-information.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vogel u. a .: organs in Lower Saxony. 1997, p. 120.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ingeborg Nöldeke, Almut Salomon, Antje Sander: Schortens. Local history from the Middle Ages to modern times. NORA Verlagsgemeinschaft Dyck & Westerheide OHG, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86557-097-6 , p. 96.
3. ^ Karl Heinz Bielefeld: Organs and Organ Builders in Göttingen. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-921140-75-8 , p. 36.
4. ↑ Vogel u. a .: organs in Lower Saxony. 1997, p. 74.
5. ↑ Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden. 1995, p. 445 f.
6. ^ Pape, Topp: Organs and Organ Builders in Bremen. 2003, p. 407.
7. ↑ Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden. 1995, p. 385.
8. ↑ Vogel u. a .: organs in Lower Saxony. 1997, pp. 120-123.
9. ^ Organ in Meeden (Dutch), accessed on January 8, 2019.
10. ↑ Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden. 1995, p. 315.
11. ↑ Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden. 1995, p. 203.
12. ^ Fritz Schild: Memorial organs. Documentation of the restoration by organ building guides 1974-1991 . tape 2 . Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2005, ISBN 978-3-7959-0862-1 , p. 426 .
13. ↑ Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden. 1995, p. 221.