Markert (organ building family)
Markert is the name of a former family of organ builders from Ostheim vor der Rhön .
Johann Georg Markert I.
The company's history began with the trained carpenter Johann Georg Markert I (born June 5, 1781 in Ostheim; † May 30, 1835 there ). Johann Georg I was the son of Johann Emmerich Markert (1743–1804) and Margarethe Elisabeth Schneider (1750–1825). The Markert family can be traced back over six generations to 1580, in Ostheim since 1701. In 1804 Johann Georg I appeared when he was repairing the baroque organ in the St. Michael Church in Ostheim and making suggestions for changes. A pedal clavichord built by him in 1806 is in the Bachhaus Eisenach .
Johann Georg Markert II.
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Johann Georg Markert II was born on August 16, 1813 in Ostheim. His father was the aforementioned, his mother's name was Maria Elisabeth Genssler (1785-1852). From 1835 to 1844 he learned and worked with Johann Hartmann Bernhard in Romrod, Hesse, and then went hiking. His stations were u. a. Vienna, Prague, Dresden and Weimar. From 1841 to 1845 he probably stayed with Eobanus Friedrich Krebaum in Eschwege . As early as 1844, Johann Georg II had been trying to get approval to set up an organ builder in Ostheim, then in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . In 1845 he submitted a cost estimate to the city for a comprehensive renovation of the Döring organ from 1737/1738 in the city church of St. Michael. In 1847 he received the order and in 1848 he founded the workshop in Mamelsgasse. The renovation was completed in the same year. Then it came to cooperation with other organ experts, u. a. with the organ building theorist, organ expert, organist, teacher and composer Johann Gottlob Töpfer (1791–1870) and with the cantor, organist and composer Alexander Wilhelm Gottschalg (1827–1908). Almost 20 organs are known from Markert's operation, of which around half are still preserved today. You stand u. a. in Birx , Zillbach and Neidhartshausen . Johann Georg II died at his birthplace on June 1, 1891.
Otto Reinhard Markert
Otto Reinhold Markert (born February 26, 1860 Ostheim; † February 23, 1944 there ) was the son of the aforementioned. His mother's name was Dorothee Marie Bohn (1833–1918). He learned from his father and worked for his colleague Adam Eifert before he took over his father's workshop in 1886 and introduced the mechanical cone drawer. In 1894 he moved the organ in the St. Michael Church in Ostheim as part of a church restoration from the organ gallery to a new gallery on the opposite west wall; this measure was reversed in 1975 by Otto Hoffmann . I.a. the churches in Hermannsfeld , Dermbach (1938) and Henneberg contain instruments made by this organ builder. In 1918 his wife Mathilde Friedricke (born 1861) died. When he died in 1944, he was the only child behind his daughter Ida Emilie Martha, born in 1886, who was married to his colleague Willy Hoffmann (1883–1915) and died three years after her father at the age of 61.
The Hoffmann couple had sons Louis (1906–1965) and Otto (1913–2004), who took over the grandfather's business in 1945 and continued it under a new name .
successor
The history of the organ building business was continued after 1945 by the grandchildren Louis and Otto Hoffmann.
Michael Markert has been responsible for the family tradition of organ building since 1993.
literature
- 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 , pp. 187-188 .
- Hans-Wolfgang Theobald : The Ostheimer organ builder Johann Georg Markert and his work. Schneider, Tutzing 1990, ISBN 3-79520641-3 .