Julius Schwarz (organ builder)
Julius Ludwig Ernst Wilhelm Schwarz (born September 25, 1862 in Rostock , † July 11, 1934 in Grand Rapids , Michigan ) was a German organ builder.
Life
Julius Schwarz was the son of the carpenter and inspector of the Rostock hospital Heinrich Schwarz. He learned the trade of organ builder from 1876 to 1880 in Friedrich Mehmel's workshop in Stralsund , and in 1880 he was involved in the construction of the organ at St. John's Church in Lassan . After temporary stays in Barmen and Cologne , Julius Schwarz founded his own organ building workshop in Rostock in 1887. Paul Faust from Schwelm learned the organ building trade here. Schwarz was the first to build organs with a pneumatic action in Mecklenburg, he built around 35 new organs, mainly in Mecklenburg. In 1892 and 1894 the company moved to larger workshops. After the delivery of two organs to churches in Stavanger in Norway in 1898 and the handover of his Rostock company to Carl Börger in 1900 due to financial difficulties , Julius Schwarz went to Norway and became a partner in the NOREG company in Sandnes . In 1903 he decided to emigrate to America with his wife Marie and 3 children. A sign of life from him dates from July 3, 1903 when he arrived in New York Harbor, where he disembarked the emigration ship Carpathia . In 1920 the family lived in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States. There, in 1931, J. Schwarz registered a patent for the construction of accordions.
Works
- Danschenburg village church
- 1890 Rosenow Church
- 1890/91 Village church Below near Techentin
- 1891 Roggendorf village church
- 1892 Minzow village church
- 1892 Prestin village church
- 1892 Baumgarten
- 1892/93 Techentin village church
- 1893 West Bruges
- 1893 Plauerhagen
- 1894 Hohen Pritz
- 1894 Nossentin
- 1894 Siggelkow
- 1894 Lutheran
- 1895 Apostolic Church in Hamburg
- 1897 Biendorf village church
- 1898 Ivenack Church
- 1898 two churches in Stavanger (Norway)
- 1900 Altkalen village church
literature
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 9274 .
- Helmut Klöpping: The Rostock organ builder Julius Schwarz, attempt at a biography. Bergisch Gladbach 2009.
- Hermann Fischer: Julius Schwarz. In: 100 Years of the Association of German Organ Builders. 1991.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Information from organ specialist Wolfgang Leppin, Güstrow, April 15, 2006.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Black, Julius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schwarz, Julius Ludwig Ernst Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organ builder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostock |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1934 |
| Place of death | Grand Rapids, Michigan |