Mamert Hock (organ builder)

Mamert Hock was a German organ builder from Saarlouis . The company existed from 1833 to 1943 and produced organs from 1855. Mamert Hock mainly worked in Saarland , but also in Rhineland-Palatinate and as far as Trier .

History of the company

First Sylvester Hock founded a company in Schonach in the Black Forest in 1833 , in which he manufactured music boxes and small musical works. When he arrived in Saarlouis in 1855, he also built organs, among other things . Larger organs were built from 1865 and the company grew.

After Sylvester Hock died in 1861, Mamert Hock I took over the company. In 1872 this was modernized and a gas generator was installed . It was the first business in Saarlouis to produce electricity. The company continued to grow, so that the Mamert Hock company moved within the city around 1890 and had a new, larger building built with a twelve-meter-high assembly hall so that it could now manufacture larger church organs. It was completed in 1904.

In the meantime, Mamert Hock II, one of Mamert Hock I's two sons, had taken over the management of the organ building workshop in 1900. During the First World War , the company was forced to switch its production to war supplies - ammunition boxes, tent sticks and the like. The workshop was partly used to store bells that were to be melted down.

After the war the company specialized in making furniture. From 1923 organs were built again. Due to the difficult economic situation, the organ building company went bankrupt in 1928, but was able to continue to operate under the name Hock & Co. until 1932.

From then on, Mamert Hock only ran a small workshop in his house where he carried out repairs. During the Second World War he was an expert for war-related damage to organs in Saarland. After Mamert Hock II had an accident on the way to an organ repair in 1943, the company was dissolved.

List of works

year	opus	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1901	2	Niedaltdorf	Parish Church of St. Rufus		II / P	14th	The oldest surviving organ from the Hock company
1901		Saarlouis	Garrison Church		II / P	22nd	Was later transferred to the new Protestant church. Organ not preserved. Parts were reused by Thomas Gaida in 2002 to build the organ in Wustweiler .
1904		Reimsbach	Parish Church of St. Andreas u. Assumption Day		II / P	25th	Largest preserved organ from the Hock company
1904-1912		Felsberg (Saar)	Parish Church of St. Nicholas		II / P	13
1904		Merzkirchen	Parish Church of St. Martin		II / P	13	not received
1904		Konfeld	St John the Baptist		II / P	15th
1905		Bisten	Parish Church of St. Peter		II / P	14th
1905		Düppenweiler	Parish Church of St. Leodegar		II / P	16	some registers are contained in today's Seifert organ
1905		Saarburg	Parish Church of St. Laurentius		II / P	24	not received
1906		Malberg (Eifel)	Parish Church of St. Quirinus		II / P	12
1906		Mettnich (Today: Primstal )	cath. Parish church		II / P	14th	not received
1907		Better wrestling	Parish Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus		II / P	15th	not received
1908		Hasborn-Dautweiler	Parish Church of St. Bartholomew		II / P	13	not received
1908		Beltheim-Frankweiler	Parish church		I / P	4th	not received
1908		Hüttersdorf	old church		II / P	14th	Church and organ not preserved
1908		Elections (Losheim am See)	Parish Church of St. Helena		II / P	12
1908		Nonnweiler	Parish Church of St. Hubertus		I / P	6th	not received
1908		Bedersdorf	Parish Church of St. Margaretha		II / P	15th
1909		Marpingen	Parish Church of the Assumption		II / P	18th	Housing preserved and expanded. Organ not preserved
1909		Hermeskeil	Parish Church of St. Martinus		II / P	19th
1909		Wadrill (waders)	Parish Church of St. Martin		II / P	14th	some registers are contained in today's Seifert organ
1910		Kostenbach	Parish Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus		II / P	15th	1930 remodeling by Klais
1910		Neunkirchen-les-Bouzonville	Eglise Saint-Anne		II / P	13	not received
1910		Guerstlingen	Eglise		II / P	13	not received
1913		trier	Clarissenkirche		II / P	10	not received
1923		Büdingen (Saarland)	Visitation of the Virgin Mary		I / P	7th
1929		Böckweiler	Ev. church		II / P	9	not received
1930		Bliesdalheim	Ev. church		II / P	9	not received
1930		Chicken field	St. Mary		III / P	28	Reconstruction after organ fragments by Gaida; Largest organ Mamert Hocks
1931		Rütgen	Catholic Church		II / P	13	not received
1931		Usselkirch	Catholic Church		II / P	17th	not received

Individual evidence

1. ^ Armin Lamar: The history of the Mamert Hock organ building company in Saarlouis. Seen March 29, 2012.