Ludwig Edenhofer

Ludwig Edenhofer (around 1850)

Carl Ludwig Edenhofer (born September 3, 1828 in Regen ; † August 24, 1895 ibid) was a German organ builder and violinist .

Life

Ludwig Edenhofer was born on September 3, 1828 as the son of the grocer Josef Edenhofer in Regen, house number 139, and was baptized Carl Ludwig on the same day. He completed an organ builder apprenticeship with Franz Zimmermann in Munich and Franz Ullmann in Vienna. In 1844 he took his master's degree and opened his own shop in Regen in 1852, in house 253 on Zwieseler Straße. The building was destroyed in a fire in 1938. In 1885, Edenhofer gave Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , "the tone setter in a European concert", a pitch pipe for his birthday. In 1893 the company was divided and the main business relocated to a closed match factory near Deggendorf. Ludwig Edenhofer junior continued this business . Ludwig Edenhofer (senior) died in Regen on August 24, 1895. The company there was then continued by his second son, Josef Edenhofer, and shut down after his death at the age of 28 in 1897.

meaning

Thanks to its solid construction and high value for money, Ludwig Edenhofer was able to assert itself against the competition from other well-known organ building companies such as Steinmeyer from Oettingen or Maerz from Munich . In addition, he was more agile than his competitors in adapting to local conditions and in different liturgical tasks. At first he built organs exclusively with a sliding chest , from 1880 with the then modern mechanical cone chest . He built around 210 organs, mostly smaller instruments, and delivered some to Russia . Today there are still numerous, well-functioning instruments and some rebuilding of organs from the 18th century.

List of works (selection)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1854	Achslach	Parish Church of St. James		II / P	12	only Edenhof organ with physharmonica , original preserved, restored by Jann in 2012 . → organ
1855	Unterrohrbach			I / P	6th
1858	Lam	Mary help		I / P	5
1863	Reisbach	Parish Church of St. Michael		II / P	13
1866	Winklsaß	St. Peter and Paul		I / P	7th	mechanical drawer
1866	Walchsing	St. Michael		I / P	8th
1867	Hohenthann- Heiligenbrunn	Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary				not received
1870	Allkofen			I / P	7th
1873	rain
	Pettenreuth	Assumption Day		I / P	10	Slider drawer; received, fan system changed
1875	Marklkofen	Assumption Day		I / Pa	12
1878	Seebach (Deggendorf)
1878	Hofendorf	St. Andrew		I / P	7th	receive
around 1880	Weed	St. Nicholas		I / P	7th	receive
1881	West Niederlindhart	Apostle Church		I / P	10	preserved, restored by Jann
1881	Perkam	Assumption Day
1884	Mühlbach	Mary Visitation		I / P	6th	preserved, restored by Jann
1884	Fouling	St. Quirin		I / P	6th
1885	Reisbach -Failnbach	St. George		I / P	6th	preserved, restored by Jann
1887	Rain (city)	Parish Church of St. Michael		II / P	16
1887	Regensburg - Sallern	Assumption Day		I / P	10	Cone tray; Organ in 1982 by Guido Nenninger to Rückpositiv and Auxilaires expanded. → organ
1888	Altenstadt an der Waldnaab	Assumption Day				receive
1889	Altenbuch	St. Rubertus		II / P	14th	receive
1890	Sulzbach			I / P	10
1890	Poikam			I / P	6th	receive
1893	Schönau near Eggenfelden	St. Stephen		I / P	8th

literature

• Georg Brenninger: Organs in Old Bavaria. GeraNova Bruckmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7654-1859-5 .
• Eberhard Kraus: Historic organs in the Upper Palatinate. Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7954-0387-1 .
• Stephanie König: The organ of St. Johann in Regen. Admission work for the state examination at the University of Music and Theater. Munich 2003

Web links

• Carl Ludwig Edenhofer in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Passauer Zeitung: News from and for Lower Bavaria. No. 15, January 15, 1855.