Julius Strobel

Julius August Alexander Strobel (born October 7, 1814 in Bösenbrunn , † August 24, 1884 in Frankenhausen ) was a German organ builder .

life and work

In 1832 Strobel began an apprenticeship as an organ builder in the workshop of Johann Gottlob Mende in Leipzig. In 1836 he worked at Buckow in Hirschberg, from 1838 at Kreuzbach in Borna, from 1839 at Johann Friedrich Schulze in Paulinzella. In 1842, Strobel went to Frankenhausen am Kyffhäuser on behalf of Schulze to rebuild the organ in the lower church. He then settled in Frankenhausen and soon became one of the busiest organ builders in Northern Thuringia, but also exported to the Netherlands and South Africa.

An important student of Strobel was Friedrich Albert Mehmel , who had also worked for Ibach, Schulze and Ladegast and who settled in Greifswald.

Strobel's business was taken over by his sons Reinhold (* April 6, 1846 - November 27, 1916) and Adolph (* January 20, 1857 - March 8, 1922) and continued under the name of Julius Strobel Sons . In 1914 the company was dissolved.

List of works (selection)

The organs from the Strobel workshop include the preserved instruments in:

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1845	Wasserthaleben	St. Johannis		I / P	12	New building, opus 1; the organ is in good condition, but has been rebuilt several times
1852	Steinthaleben	St. Dionysius		II / P	14th	New building; receive
1853	Dietersdorf	Village church		II / P	19th	New building; receive
1860	Beyernaumburg	St. Urbani		II / P	17th
1860	Sangerhausen	Ulrich Church		II / P	20th	New building; receive
1861	Homestead	St. Johann Baptist		II / P	26th	New building; receive
1864	Schwenda	St. Cyriaki and Nicolai		II / P	19th	New building; receive
1865	Breitenstein	St. Margareten		II / P	16	New building; receive
1869	Breitenbach	St. Martini		II / P	14th	New building; receive
1870	Lower Saxony	St. Johannis-Pauli		II / P	14th	New building; 1965 remodeling; receive
1871	Uftrungen	St. Andrew's Church		II / P	20th	New building; receive
1871	Rossla	Trinity Church		II / P	27	New building; receive
1876	Ring life	St. Valentine		II / P	26th	New building; receive
1880	Elliehausen	St. Martini		II / P	16	New building; 1928 Change of disposition by Wiegand Helfenbein (Gotha), 17 II / P. 1935 Reconstruction by Paul Ott (Göttingen). 1973 Repair by Martin Haspelmath (Walsrode). 1987/88 restoration by the Hillebrand brothers (Altwarmbüchen)
1882	Haarlem	Luth. church		II / P	22nd	New building, extensive renovation in 1948; 2001 Reconstruction of the original disposition
1843/1886	Bad Frankenhausen	Lower Church of St. Mary		III / P	49	In 1843 the organ was extended by Johann Nordt (1703; II / P / 26) to III / P / 29 under the direction of Johann Friedrich Schulze ; 1886 new building behind the existing housing and including 18 registers, completed by his sons Adolf and Reinhold; almost completely preserved
1887	Heroics	Golgotha ​​Church				New building by Strobel sons; In 1914 the same company built what was then a modern pneumatic organ into the old case. On September 21, 1986, the third organ in the old case was inaugurated, a mechanical slider-drawer organ from the Böhm company from Gotha.
1889	Bilzingsleben	St. Wigberti		II / P	20th	Julius Strobel & Sons
1913	Kaltohmfeld	St. John the Baptist				Julius Strobel & Sons

Web links

Commons : Julius Strobel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The organ of the Church of the Holy Grave in Dietersdorf. Retrieved June 6, 2019 . 
2. ^ The organ builder Julius Strobel , accessed on June 6, 2019 (PDF file).
3. ↑ Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexikon Norddeutscher Orgelbauer, Volume 1: Thuringia and Bypassing, p. 292. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4
4. ^ Ingrid Mansel: History of the Bad Frankenhausen Monastery. In: Cistopedia - Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis. Retrieved June 6, 2019 (see in particular 1842, April 1886). 

literature

• Jaap KG Brouwer: Julius Strobel and his organ in the Evangelisch Lutherse Kerk in Haarlem . Orgelbouw Steendam publishing house, 2004.
• Eduard Schönau: History of the lower church in Frankenhausen . Emil Krebs, Frankenhausen 1975, p. 29-35 .
• Jiri Kokourek: The organ builder Julius Strobel . (PDF file; 42 kB) ( online (PDF; 43 kB), with catalog raisonné)