List of organs in the district of Giessen

The list of organs in the district of Gießen includes all pipe organs preserved in the district of Gießen ( Central Hesse ). It is a supplement to the main article Organ Landscape Hessen , in which further literature can be found.

Of the more than 150 instruments in the district, 56 are more than 100 years old. The oldest organ goes back to Georg Wagner (1624), of which the prospectus and five registers in the Licher Marienstiftskirche have been preserved. In the Evangelical City Church of Laubach there is a baroque organ, which the Thuringian organ builders Johann Casper Beck and Johann Michael Wagner completed in 1751. As her journeyman, Johann Andreas Heinemann played a key role in the new construction and created organs in Kirchberg (Lahn) (1778) and Freienseen (1797, attribution). The 19th century was shaped by the competing organ builder Johann Georg Förster , of whom 17 organs have been preserved, and the organ builder family Johann Hartmann Bernhard with a total of twelve instruments, the 20th century largely dominated by Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau . More than 50 organs from the Lich company can be heard in the district of Gießen.

Organ list

The main builders are listed in the fifth column; Cooperation between several organ builders is indicated by a slash, later modifications by commas. In the seventh column, the Roman number indicates the number of manuals , a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal , a lower-case "p" indicates an attached pedal and the Arabic number in the penultimate column indicates the number of sounding registers.

place	church	image	Municipality or city	Organ builder	year	Manuals	register	Remarks
Albach (Fernwald)	Protestant church		Fernwald	Johann Georg Förster	1863	I / P	8th	completely preserved
Allendorf / Lahn	Protestant church		to water	Johann Georg Förster	1879	I / P	7th	almost completely preserved
Allendorf (Lumda)	Protestant church		Allendorf (Lumda)	Johann Conrad Wagner, Oberlinger	1737, 1996	II / P	15th	New building behind a historic prospect, mechanical grinding chests
Allendorf (Lumda)	Zion Church		Allendorf (Lumda)	Wolfgang Boettner	1966	II / P	14th	mechanical slider chests
Allertshausen	Protestant church		Rabenau	Förster & Nicolaus	1960	I / p	5	four divided registers, in Allertshausen since 1992
Alten-Buseck	Protestant church		Buseck	Johann Georg Förster	1899	II / P	10	pneumatic cone store, neo-renaissance style prospectus
Annerod	Protestant church		Fernwald	Johann Georg Förster	1881	II / P	14th	Suspension valve drawer , transmission drawer: 5 registers of the HW are transmitted into the pedal.
Bellersheim	Protestant church		Hunger	Johann Georg Förster	1868	II / P	15th	Jumping shop ; completely preserved
Beltershain	Protestant church		Grünberg	Förster & Nicolaus	1989	I / p	5
Bersrod	Protestant church		Reiskirchen	Günther Hardt	1991	I / P	6th	The exact year of construction could not yet be determined.
Bettenhausen (Lich)	Evangelical Reformed Church		Lich	Johann Georg Förster	1854	I / P	10	almost completely preserved
Beuern (Buseck)	Protestant church		Buseck	Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard	1847	II / P	23
Beuern	Evangelical parish hall		to water	EF Walcker & Cie.	1952	I.	4th
Birklar	Protestant church		Lich	Philipp Heinrich Bürgy / Johann Georg Bürgy	1820	II / P	13	largely preserved
Burkhardsfelden	Protestant church		Reiskirchen	Bernhard brothers	1886	I / P	7th	1959 revised a register by Förster & Nicolaus
Cleeberg	Protestant church		Langgöns	Bernhard brothers	1888-1889	I / P	8th	1937 rearranged by the organ builder Eppstein
Bring it up	Protestant church		Staufenberg	EF Walcker & Cie.	1971	II / P	12
Village manure	Evangelical Reformed Church		Pohlheim	Johann Hartmann Bernhard	1839	I / P	8th	almost completely preserved
Dornholzhausen (Langgöns)	Protestant church		Langgöns	Friedrich Weigle	1930	II / P	9	behind the historical prospectus of Grieb or Dreuth
Eberstadt (Lich)	Protestant church		Lich	Johann Georg Förster , Paul Ott , Oberlinger	1852, 1955, 1968	II / P	18th	behind the front facade of the Ott-Organ from Frankfurt am Main, which was extensively rebuilt by Oberlinger
Eberstadt (Lich)	St. Maria Immaculata		Lich	Förster & Nicolaus	1986	I.	4th	positive
Espa (Langgöns)	Protestant church		Langgöns	GF Steinmeyer & Co.	1963	I.	5	opus 2060
Ettingshausen	Protestant church		Reiskirchen	Johann Georg Förster	1880	I / P	8th	mechanical cone shop
Fellingshausen	Protestant church		Biebertal	Willi Peter	1969	I / P	7th	behind the neo-Gothic prospect of the previous organ by Förster & Nicolaus (1902)
Frankenbach (Biebertal)	Protestant church		Biebertal	Gerald Woehl	1976	I / P	6th	Behind-playing parapet organ , sub-bass 16 'set up behind
Open lakes	Protestant church		Laubach	Johann Andreas Heinemann	1797	I / P	14th	Attribution
Sheaf pond	Protestant church		Pohlheim	Förster & Nicolaus	1974	I / P	9	including older registers from the previous organ by Johann Georg Förster (1900), mechanical cone chests
Geilshausen	Protestant church		Rabenau	Gebr. Link	1912	I / P	6th	pneumatic cone shop; behind the historical prospectus from the end of the 18th century
to water	St. Albertus		to water	Förster & Nicolaus	1955-1956	II / P	25th	2006 used taken over from the Heilandskirche in Frankfurt am Main and rebuilt
to water	Chapel in the old cemetery (Giessen)		to water	Förster & Nicolaus	1965	II / P	9	Used in 1975 as a house organ, acquired from Saarlouis
to water	Andreas Church		to water	Förster & Nicolaus	around 1967	I / P	5
to water	St. Boniface , main organ		to water	Hermann Eule organ building Bautzen	2015	III / P	41	including three extensions and one transmission, English-romantic disposition; Replacement for an organ by Förster & Nicolaus (1965, III / P / 42)
to water	St. Boniface, choir organ		to water	T. Hopkins & Sons	1912	II / P	14th
to water	Evangelic Hospital		to water			I.	5	four registers divided into bass / treble
to water	Free ev. Community		to water	Organ builder Schmid	1986	II / P	17th	including older registers and parts of the broken Hindelang organ from Ebenhofen (1963)
to water	Johanneskirche , main organ		to water	Förster & Nicolaus	1968	III / P	43
to water	Johanneskirche, continuo organ		to water	Strings	1970s	I.	2
to water	Justus Liebig University , auditorium		to water	Förster & Nicolaus	1957	II / P	25th
to water	Justus Liebig University, maximum auditorium		to water	Werner Bosch organ building	1967	II / P	12	on a mobile platform
to water	Justus Liebig University, practice organ		to water	Klaus Becker	1967	II / P	6th	in house D of Philosophikum II
to water	Lukas Church		to water	Förster & Nicolaus	1953	I / p	5	with split registers
to water	New Apostolic Church		to water	Günter Schwan	1965	II / P	17th	electric game and stop action; 2001 by Hardt outdated
to water	New cemetery, chapel		to water	Förster & Nicolaus	1966	I / P	6th
to water	Pankratius Chapel		to water	Joseph Raschke	1949	II / P	16	two-part free pipe prospectus, electric action
to water	Pauluskirche		to water	Oberlinger	1965	I / P	6th
to water	Petruskirche		to water	Förster & Nicolaus	1968	III / P	33
to water	Vitos Chapel in Giessen		to water	Förster & Nicolaus	1912	I / P	7th	1955 rearrangement by the same company
to water	City church , tower chapel		to water	Förster & Nicolaus	around 1952	I.	4th	Organ positive with free pipe prospect
to water	Stephanuskirche		to water	EF Walcker & Cie.	1964	I / P	6th	in the Stephanuskirche since about 1979
to water	St. Thomas More		to water	Organ building Kreienbrink	1971	II / P	21st
to water	Thomasgemeinde, community hall		to water	Förster & Nicolaus	1967	I / P	7th	1979 pedal register added
to water	Wichernkirche		to water	Kurt Hofbauer	1979	II / P	12	Organ in kit that was assembled by parishioners
Goebelnrod	Evangelical parish hall		Grünberg	Förster & Nicolaus	1999	I / P	7th
Gonterskirchen	Protestant church		Laubach	Werner Bosch organ building	1968	I / P	9	behind the historical prospectus by Johann Jakob Dahm , probably including some old registers
Grossen-Buseck	Protestant church		Buseck	Johann Georg Förster	1870	II / P	20th	New building; largely preserved, with physharmonica and collective step
Great Linden	Christ-King		Linden trees	Förster & Nicolaus	1965	II / P	22nd
Great Linden	Protestant church		Linden trees	Förster & Nicolaus	1908	II / P	20th
Grünberg	Hospital Church		Grünberg	unknown	19th century	I / P	6th
Grünberg	Seven Sorrows of Mary		Grünberg	Gebr. Link	2000	II / P	18th
Grünberg	Evangelical town church		Grünberg	Förster & Nicolaus	1969	II / P	23
Grüningen (Pohlheim)	Protestant church		Pohlheim	Bernhard brothers	1881	I / P	11	completely preserved
Harbach (Grünberg)	Protestant church		Grünberg	Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard	1861	I / P	7th
Hattenrod	Protestant church		Reiskirchen	Förster & Nicolaus	1902	I / P	7th
Hausen (Pohlheim)	Protestant church		Pohlheim	Förster & Nicolaus	1974	I / P	7th	including the old registers of the previous organ by Johann Georg Förster (1896)
Hausen (Pohlheim)	Cemetery chapel		Pohlheim	Förster & Nicolaus	around 1980	I.	4th	Organ positive, originally in the Wicherngemeinde, Gießen, moved to Hausen in 2012
Hypocritical home	new Martinskirche		Hypocritical home	Förster & Nicolaus	1977	II / P	21st
Hypocritical home	Maria peace		Hypocritical home	Gebr. Hillebrand	1978	II / P	13	2014 used from the Johanneskirche in Hannover-List acquired; moved from Förster & Nicolaus to Heuchelheim.
Hypocritical home	Martinskirche		Hypocritical home	Johann Christian Köhler , Förster & Nicolaus	1755, 1926	II / P	13	behind the historic organ prospect, which was acquired from Klein-Karben in 1868
Holzheim (Pohlheim)	Evangelical Reformed Church		Pohlheim	Förster & Nicolaus	1968	II / P	13	behind the historical prospectus by Johann Hartmann Bernhard (1829)
Hunger	St. Andrew		Hunger	Organ building company Reichenstein	2010	II / P	7th
Hunger	Cemetery chapel		Hunger	Förster & Nicolaus	1964	I / p	5	originally for the Ev. Chapel built in Bad Salzhausen , since 1981 in Hungen
Hunger	Evangelical town church , main organ		Hunger	Blank	1967	II / P	21st
Hunger	Evangelical town church, choir positive		Hunger	Strings		I.	2	Organ positive
Kinzenbach	Protestant church		Hypocritical home	Friedrich Weller	1867	I / P	10
Kirchberg (Lahn)	Protestant church		Lollar	Johann Andreas Heinemann	1777/1778	I / P	11	Attribution; receive
Kleinlinden	Protestant church		to water	Förster & Nicolaus	1969	II / P	15th
Kleinlinden	Cemetery chapel		to water	Friedrich Weigle	1969	I / P	8th	partly divided registers
Arnsburg Monastery	paradise		Lich	Förster & Nicolaus	1979	I / P	8th	behind the historical prospectus and including a pedal register from the church of Bindsachsen , the manual keyboards and two old registers from the Gederner church and another old register from the Holzheim church
Königsberg (Biebertal)	Protestant church		Biebertal	Förster & Nicolaus	1962	I / P	9
Krofdorf-Gleiberg	Trinity Church		Wettenberg	EF Walcker & Cie.	1965	II / p	4th
Krofdorf-Gleiberg	Katharinenkirche Gleiberg		Wettenberg	Günter Hardt	1968	I / P	6th	built between two galleries
Krofdorf-Gleiberg	Margaret Church		Wettenberg	Günter Hardt	1971	I / P	11	including the old registers of the predecessor organ by Gebr. Ziese (1854)
Krumbach (Biebertal)	Protestant church		Biebertal	EF Walcker & Cie.	1928	II / P	11
Krumbach	New Apostolic Church		Biebertal	Self-made, Günter Hardt	1978			Overhauled by Hardt in 1995
Langd	Protestant church		Hunger	Johann Georg Förster	1865	II / P	12
Lang-Göns	James Church		Langgöns	Förster & Nicolaus	1977	II / P	19th
Langsdorf (Lich)	Evangelical Reformed Church		Lich	Förster & Nicolaus	1925	II / P	19th	in the late romantic style, pneumatic cone chests
Lardenbach	Protestant church		Grünberg	Finkenauer & Embach	1865	I / P	6th	completely preserved
Laubach	Evangelical town church Laubach		Laubach	Johann Casper Beck / Johann Michael Wagner / Johann Andreas Heinemann , Förster & Nicolaus	1747-1751, 2010	III / P	31	Nine registers preserved, reconstruction and expansion in 2010, three registers added in 2018
Laubach	Holy Spirit Church		Laubach	Förster & Nicolaus	1980	II / P	18th
Launsbach	Protestant church		Wettenberg	Günter Hardt	1963	I / P	7th
Louder (Laubach)	Protestant church		Laubach	Förster & Nicolaus	1904	I / P	8th	with pneumatic cone store
Lehnheim	Protestant church		Grünberg	Andreas M. Ott	1972	I.	4th
Loan yesterday	Protestant church		Linden trees	Förster & Nicolaus	1908	II / P	17th	romantic disposition, pneumatic cone shop; completely preserved
Lich	Cemetery chapel		Lich	Förster & Nicolaus	1972	I.	3
Lich	Marienstiftskirche , main organ		Lich	Georg Wagner , Förster & Nicolaus	1621-1624, 1972	III / P	33	1631 Pedal towers from Arnsburg Monastery added; 1972 New building behind a historical prospectus and incorporating old registers
Lich	Marienstiftskirche, choir organ		Lich	Förster & Nicolaus	1967	I / P	5
Lich	Marienstiftskirche, chapel		Lich	Förster & Nicolaus	1961	I.	4th	Positive in the chapel with split registers
Lich	Marienstiftskirche, chest organ		Lich	Henk Klop	2017	I.	5	Chest organ with wooden principle 8 ′
Lich	Marienstiftskirche, chest organ		Lich	Henk Klop	2004	I.	4th	Chest organ
Lich	St. Paulus, main organ		Lich	Reinhart Tzschöckel	1988	II / P	28
Lich	St. Paulus, organ positive		Lich	Reinhart Tzschöckel	1996	I.	3	initially served as a loan instrument, acquired by St. Paulus in 1998
Lindenstruth	Protestant church		Reiskirchen	Emanuel Kemper	1964	I / P	5	Acquired second-hand in 1978; all four manual registers are divided (bass / treble).
Lollar	Protestant church		Lollar	Förster & Nicolaus	1962	II / P	12
Lollar	St. Joseph		Lollar	Gebr. Späth	1962	II / P	16	with electropneumatic cone loading
Londorf	Evangelical Lutheran Church		Rabenau	Gebr. Link	1911	II / P	22nd
Londorf	St. Francis		Rabenau	Eduard Wagenbach	1968	II / P	13
Lumda (Grünberg)	Protestant church		Grünberg	Bernhard brothers	1893	I / P	6th	with cone shop
Lützellinden	Protestant church		to water	Günter Hardt	1970	II / P	15th	behind the brochure of the Bernhard brothers (1894); In 1999 a pedal register from Hardt was added
Mainzlar	Mainzlar Church		Staufenberg	Oberlinger	around 1980	I.	7th	Organ positive
Munster (Laubach)	Protestant church		Laubach	Förster & Nicolaus	1901	I / P	6th	pneumatic
Muschenheim	Protestant church		Lich	Förster & Nicolaus	1958	I / p	6th	originally built for the Paul-Gerhard-Church in Offenbach am Main , acquired by Muschenheim in 1992 and transferred there
Nieder-Bessingen	Protestant church		Lich	Förster & Nicolaus	1957-1958	I / P	8th	behind the historical prospectus by Johann Hartmann Bernhard (1830/31)
Niederkleen	Protestant church		Langgöns	Hugo Boehm	1910	II / P	10	largely preserved; renovated by W. Bosch
Nonnenroth	Evangelical Reformed Church		Hunger	Johann Georg Förster	1885	I / P	9
Ober-Bessingen	Protestant church		Lich	Johann Hartmann Bernhard	1833	II / P	10	One register exchanged in 1891, otherwise completely preserved
Obbornhofen	Protestant church		Hunger	Förster & Nicolaus	1911	I / P	9	behind the prospectus by Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard (1843)
Upper clover	St. Michaelis		Langgöns	Johann Conrad Bürgy & Sons	1790-1800	I / P	12	originally I / P / 10, expanded by Hardt in 1976/77 ; largely preserved
Upper clover	Mary Queen		Langgöns	Emil Hammer	1985	II / P	15th
Odenhausen (Lahn)	Protestant church		Lollar	Heinrich Eichhorn	1895	I / p	7th	or acquired used from Burgschwalbach, behind the prospectus by G. Weißhaupt (1739)
Odenhausen (Lumda)	Protestant church		Rabenau	Dieter Noeske	around 1960	I / P	5
Oppenrod	Protestant church		Buseck	Johann Georg Förster	1886	I / P	7th
Queckborn	Protestant church		Grünberg	Johann Georg Förster	1873	I / P	8th	side parapet organ behind a baroque case (1742)
Reinhardshain	Protestant church		Grünberg	Förster & Nicolaus	1997	I / P	5
Reiskirchen	Protestant church		Reiskirchen	Johann Georg Förster	1899	II / P	9
Rödgen (Giessen)	Protestant church		to water	Förster & Nicolaus	1899-1900	I / P	8th	pneumatic cone store
Rodheim-Bieber	St. Anna		Biebertal	Westphalian organ builder S. Sauer	1998	II / P	23
Rodheim-Bieber	Evangelical Church Bieber		Biebertal	EF Walcker & Cie.	1970	I / P
Rodheim-Bieber	Evangelical Church Rodheim		Biebertal	Johann Hartmann Bernhard	1828	I / P	10	1958/59 renovation
Rodheim (Hungen)	Protestant church		Hunger	Förster & Nicolaus	1905	II / P	13	pneumatic cone store
Röthges	Protestant church		Laubach	Heinrich Voigt	after 1882	I / P	8th	after years of shutdown in 1987/1988, restoration and restoration by Förster & Nicolaus
Ruddingshausen	Protestant church		Rabenau	Gebr. Link	1912	I / P	7th	with pneumatic cone store; behind historical prospectus (1804)
Ruppertsburg	Protestant church		Laubach	Förster & Nicolaus	1937	II / P	13	behind the historical prospectus by Johann Georg Bürgy (1822)
Saasen -Veitsberg	Protestant church		Reiskirchen	Bruno Döring	1972	I / P	6th
Salt soils	Protestant church		Lollar	unknown, Günter Hardt	1961	I / P	11	behind the rococo case from around 1760
Rod rod (Grünberg)	Protestant church		Grünberg	Gustav Rassmann	1890	I / P	6th	Pipe factory originally in Niederquembach , since 1985 in Stangenrod behind the historical prospectus of Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard (1847)
Steinbach (Fernwald)	Protestant church		Fernwald	Johann Georg Förster	1849	II / P	24	Almost completely preserved, in 1870 viol replaced by Förster, in 1873 physharmonica added
Steinheim (Hungen)	Katharinen Chapel		Hunger	Förster & Nicolaus	1966	I.	4th	positive
Stockhausen (Grünberg)	Protestant church		Grünberg	Förster & Nicolaus	1992	I / p	4th
Trais-Horloff	Protestant church		Hunger	Johann Andreas Heinemann	1776	I / P	11	Attribution; rebuilt several times
Treis on the Lumda	Protestant church		Staufenberg	Förster & Nicolaus	1928	II / P	11	behind baroque prospectus (1780)
Vetzberg	Protestant church		Biebertal	Förster & Nicolaus	1992	I / P	5
Villingen (Hungen)	Protestant church		Hunger	Förster & Nicolaus	1904	II / P	12	behind historical prospectus (1740)
Watzenborn-Steinberg	Old church		Pohlheim	Johann Georg Förster	1890	I / P	8th	Expanded and stored in 2008; since then silent prospectus
Watzenborn-Steinberg	Christ Church		Pohlheim	Förster & Nicolaus	1960	II / P	18th
Watzenborn-Steinberg	St. Martin		Pohlheim	Förster & Nicolaus	2002	II / P	15 (24)
Weickartshain	Protestant church		Grünberg	Förster & Nicolaus	1981-1982	I / P	6th	including four older registers and organ parts from the previous organ by Georg Schlosser (1933); Octave 4 ′ prepared for expansion
Weitershain	Protestant church		Grünberg	Peter Dickel	1877	II / P	10	completely preserved
Wetterfeld (Laubach)	Protestant church		Laubach	Johann Hartmann Bernhard	1823	II / P	12	rebuilt several times
Wieseck	Michaelskirche		to water	Förster & Nicolaus	1963	II / P	14th
Wieseck	New Apostolic Church		to water	Günter Hardt	1993	III / P	16	Overhauled by Hardt in 1995
Winnen (Allendorf / Lumda)	Protestant church		Allendorf (Lumda)	Förster & Nicolaus	1938	II / P	13	behind housing from 1907
Winnerod	Protestant church		Reiskirchen	Bruno Döring	1964	I / P	8th
Wirberg	Protestant church		Grünberg	Karl Rudolf Bernhard	1863	I / P	10	1950s conversion by Förster & Nicolaus
Wissmar	Protestant church		Wettenberg	Günter Hardt	1967	II / P	19th	behind the case by Johann Georg Bürgy (1830)
Wissmar	St. Raphael		Wettenberg	EF Walcker & Cie.	1949	II / P	11

literature

• Hans Martin Balz , Reinhardt Menger: Old organs in Hessen and Nassau (=  publication of the Society of Organ Friends . Volume 72 ). 2nd Edition. Merseburger, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-87537-169-0 .
• Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.1 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 1: A-K . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 .
• Franz Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.2 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 2: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1370-6 .
• Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.1 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 1: A-L . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 .
• Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.2 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 2: M-Z . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1331-5 .
• Dieter Großmann: Organs and Organ Builders in Hesse (=  contributions to Hessian history . Volume 12 ). 2nd Edition. Trautvetter & Fischer, Marburg 1998, ISBN 3-87822-109-6 .

Web links

Commons : Orgeln im Landkreis Gießen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• organindex.de: District of Giessen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Förderverein neue Orgel, St. Bonifatius, Gießen: "Perle der Empore" , accessed on November 15, 2017.
2. ↑ Michael Klein: Die Wichern Orgel , accessed on November 15, 2017.