Louis Krell
Louis Krell (born October 6, 1832 in Auleben , † January 16, 1919 in Duderstadt ) was a German organ builder . From 1868 he ran a workshop in Duderstadt. It is still run today by his descendants under the name Gebr. Krell . Its organs are in more than 30 churches in southern Lower Saxony and a few in Thuringia .
life and work
Louis Krell came from the area around Nordhausen and learned organ building from Vogt in Korbach in 1849/50 , where he became his journeyman and ultimately managing director until 1858. He then deepened his knowledge with Carl Giesecke (organ builder) in Göttingen , where he acted as a foreman from 1859 to 1866. In 1866 he opened his own company in Gieboldehausen , which he relocated to Duderstadt three years later. The area of activity initially concentrated on the Eichsfeld and gradually expanded. His son Friedrich Krell (1869–1937) took over his father's business around 1900 until his death. However, Louis Krell remained in management until about 1912.
Christina Krell (Sister M. Laurentia, 79th choir sister of the Duderstadt convent of the Ursulines founded in 1700), the youngest daughter of Louis Krell, received the news at Christmas 1916 that her old father had become Catholic and in the Episcopal Konviktskapelle in Duderstadt the first St. Received communion. Louis Krell had been a devout Protestant, but when he got married, he agreed that the children would be raised Catholic. His youngest son became a clergyman, his youngest daughter (M. Laurentia) religious.
List of works (selection)
year | place | church | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
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1868 | Tiftlingerode | Catholic Church of St. Nicholas | II / P | 12 | First new building by Louis Krell. Destroyed in a fire. | |
1873 | Rudershausen | Catholic Church of St. Andreas | I / P | 6th | Interim organ , which was installed in Bernshausen in 1877 for the same purpose and finally in Rollshausen , where it was rebuilt in the newly built church in 1903 and only replaced by a new one in 1978 (12 registers II / P; master organ builder Hofbauer, Göttingen ). | |
1875 | Rudershausen | Catholic Church of St. Andreas | II / P | 20th | ||
1877 | Breitenberg | Catholic Church of the Annunciation | II / P | 11 | 1897 Installation in today's newly built church. 1960s remodeling, expansion (II / P / 15) and relocation of gaming tables by Werner Krell, Duderstadt. 1997 Restoration and extension (II / P / 17) by Werner Bosch, Niestetal. The organs in Lindau (Eichsfeld) and Bernshausen served as a model for the reproduction of additional registers. | |
1879 | Gieboldehausen | Ev.-luth. Gustav Adolf Church | II / P | 12 | Paul Ott added a mixture III-IV in 1956 (since then II / P / 13), in 1993 restoration by organ builder Franz Rietzsch from Hiddestorf | |
1879 | Bernshausen | Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul | II / P | 23 (24) | The register Vox humana 8 ′ is vacant. Mechanical game and stop action with cone chests. Restoration by Werner Krell | |
1882 | Lindau (Eichsfeld) | Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul | II / P | 24 | 1982 restoration by Werner Krell | |
1883 | Neuendorf (Eichsfeld) | Catholic Church of St. Nicholas | II / P | 15th | ||
1884 | Seulingen | Catholic Church of St. Johannes d. baptist | II / P | 26th | With mechanical cone tray. Renovation in 2020 by the Stockmann brothers | |
1884-1885 | Lonau | Ev.-luth. St. Michaelis Church | II / P | 14th | With mechanical cone drawer ; 1983 restoration by Rudolf Janke | |
1886-1887 | Kefferhausen | Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist | There since 1998, previously in the monastery of the Heiligenstadt School Sisters, which was demolished in 1995 | |||
1886-1887 | Westhausen | Catholic Church of St. Pankratius | II / P | 15th | Not received | |
1888-1889 | Effects | Catholic Church of St. Maria Magdalena | II / P | 12 | ||
1890 | Duderstadt | Catholic Church of Our Lady (Ursuline Convent) | II / P | 14th | Dismantled and stored in 1965. Then new building by EF Walcker & Cie. The stored organ parts were reused in a new building in 2007. The Walcker organ has been in the Sestre Franjevke Franciscan monastery in Šibenik , Croatia , since 2007 . | |
1890 | Northeim | Catholic Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary | II / P | 34 | 2004 New building by the workshop organ builder Krawinkel behind the Krell prospectus and taking into account some existing registers and from Krell stocks, remaining registers reconstructed according to Krell | |
1894-1895 | Mengelrode | Catholic Church of St. Maria Magdalena | II / P | 15th | Neo-Gothic prospect | |
1895 | Goettingen | Catholic Church of St. Michael | II / P | 24 | 1954 conversion and extension to the electro-pneumatic cone chest, 1969 conversion of the organ case and extension to 29 registers, each by Gebr. Krell; 1989 New construction by the Eisenbarth Orgelbau workshop (II / P / 34), using pipe material from the old organ with 10 registers. | |
1897 | Brochthausen | Catholic Church of St. George | II / P | 12 | Received completely
In addition to the normal couplers, the organ has a super octave coupler for the I and II manuals and a sub octave coupler for the I manual. According to the inscription on the north side, the organ was donated in 1897 by R. Böhme, pastor in Krebeck. |
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1902 | Cold liver | Catholic Church of St. Nicholas | II / P | |||
1903 | Günterode | Catholic Church of St. George | II / P | 18th | Opus 146, pneumatic console, completely refurbished by Johannes Motz Orgelbau | |
1908 | Gerbershausen | Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist | II / P | 17th | 1996 Restoration by OBM Karl Brode | |
1910 | Weißenborn (Eichsfeld) | Catholic Church of St. Michael | I / P | 5 | 2005 Cleaning and repair by Organ Builders Schönefeld | |
1938/39 | Mackenrode | Catholic Church of St. Martin | II / P | 15th |
Individual evidence
- ^ Wurm: Organs in Southern Lower Saxony. 1997, p. 90.
- ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. 2009, p. 167.
- ↑ tdh-online.de , seen December 22, 2011.
- ^ Church in Duderstadt , as seen December 22, 2011.
- ↑ orgelbau-krawinkel.de: Organ in Northeim , seen December 22, 2011.
- ^ Church in Mengelrode , seen December 22, 2011.
- ↑ The Organ of St. Michael , as seen December 22, 2011.
- ↑ Motz Orgelbau , accessed on June 5, 2019
- ^ Church in Gerbershausen , seen December 22, 2011.
literature
- Karl Heinz Bielefeld: organs and organ builder in Göttingen . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-921140-75-8 .
- Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 .
- Karl Wurm: Organs in southern Lower Saxony. In: Harald Vogel, Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh (eds.): Organs in Lower Saxony. Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 , pp. 82-91.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Krell, Louis |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German organ builder |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1832 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Outdoor life |
DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1919 |
Place of death | Duderstadt |