Louis Krell

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Louis Krell organ building

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

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Handwritten CV of Louis Krell (page 1 + 2)

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
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
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II / P 20th
1877 Breitenberg Catholic Church of the Annunciation The Krell organ in Breitenberg.jpg 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
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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
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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
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II / P 24 1982 restoration by Werner Krell
1883 Neuendorf (Eichsfeld) Catholic Church of St. Nicholas
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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
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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
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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.

1902 Cold liver Catholic Church of St. Nicholas
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II / P
1903 Günterode Catholic Church of St. George
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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
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II / P 15th

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wurm: Organs in Southern Lower Saxony. 1997, p. 90.
  2. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. 2009, p. 167.
  3. tdh-online.de , seen December 22, 2011.
  4. ^ Church in Duderstadt , as seen December 22, 2011.
  5. orgelbau-krawinkel.de: Organ in Northeim , seen December 22, 2011.
  6. ^ Church in Mengelrode , seen December 22, 2011.
  7. The Organ of St. Michael , as seen December 22, 2011.
  8. Motz Orgelbau , accessed on June 5, 2019
  9. ^ 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.