Karl Traugott Stöckel

Karl Traugott Stöckel (born May 25, 1804 in Dittersdorf , † April 12, 1881 in Possendorf ) was a German organ builder .

Life

Karl Traugott Stöckel's father worked as a master in the Liedloff spinning mill in Dittersdorf. After attending elementary school in his home village, he himself first learned the carpentry trade from a master craftsman in Zschopau . He then learned the art of organ building with Johann Gotthold Jehmlich in Neuwernsdorf , where he also worked for some time as a journeyman. In 1843, on behalf of Jehmlich, he examined and drew the organ built in 1813 by Friedrich Traugott Kayser in the town church of Königstein .

From 1844 Stöckel ran its own organ building workshop, which was initially located in Freiberg and later in Dippoldiswalde . He built his first own organ from 1847 for the church of his birthplace in Dittersdorf. It was consecrated on January 28, 1849. About a dozen organs have survived from Stöckel's 37 years of activity as a master organ builder. These are those with slide chests , with mechanical action and up to 28 registers .

In addition, he repaired numerous organs and was appointed councilor organ builder for the city of Freiberg. He died in 1881 at the age of 76 while building the Possendorf organ. In the same year, his workshop was taken over by the master organ builder Ernst Louis Lohse (1850–1932).

Organs

Stöckel organ from 1864 for St. Marien and Laurentius, Dippoldiswalde

New buildings

• Dittersdorf (1847-1849). Redesigned in 1934, restored in 1997.
• Hennersdorf (1852) ( illustration )
• Fürstenwalde (1857)
• City Church Dippoldiswalde (1864). Stöckel's largest instrument. Only slightly changed. Restoration project in progress (as of 2014).
• Seifersdorf village church (1868–1871)
• Breitenau (1875)
• Schönfeld (1878). 14 / II / P. Renovated in 1996.
• Possendorf (1881-1882)
• Schellerhau (1855)

Modifications, repairs

• Reinhardtsgrimma , organ by Gottfried Silbermann , 1852.
• Freiberg, St. Johannis (today choir organ in the cathedral ), organ by Gottfried Silbermann (1857): installation of a pedal coupler and new bellows

literature

• Joachim Meyer: A Dittersdorfer created the melodious organ of the church. In: 750 years of Dittersdorf. Amtsberg, 2008, p. 97 f.
• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders, 1891–1991. Organ building specialist publisher, Laufen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 . P. 317.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Reichling (ed.): Organista et homo doctus: Festschrift Rudolf Walter on the 90th birthday. Butz, 2008. pp. 37-39.
2. ↑ Hermann Fischer: 100 Years of the Association of German Organ Builders, 1891–1991. Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991. p. 244.
3. ^ History ( memento of April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Dittersdorf, accessed on April 15, 2014.
4. ↑ In the Deutsche Fotothek
5. ↑ Donation requests for current construction projects: Stöckel organ Dippiswalde. On the website of the parish Dippoldiswalde - Schmiedeberg, accessed on April 15, 2014.
6. ^ [Gerhard Schmidt: The churches in Saxon Switzerland. Berlin 1990, p. 30]
7. ↑ Disposition of the Stöckel organ in the church in Schönfeld. (PDF) Website of the church district Meißen-Großenhain, accessed on April 15, 2014.
8. ↑ Schellerhau: Church (organ built in 1855). In: Inventory of the organs in Saxony ; Retrieved April 15, 2014.
9. ^ According to Ernst Heinrich Franz: Some news about the organ in the church at Reinhardtsgrimma. ( Memento from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) September 24, 1852. Quoted in: Kristian Wegscheider and Hartmut Schütz: The Gottfried Silbermann organ in the Evangelical Church in Reinhardtsgrimma. On the website Kultur in Reinhardtsgrimma
10. ↑ Freiberg Cathedral, Small Organ. Website by Jehmlich Orgelbau ; Retrieved April 15, 2014.