Martin Joseph Schlimbach

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Reger organ by Martin Joseph Schlimbach 1889, Meiningen town church
Prospectus of the Schlimbach organ from 1890 in the Knight's Chapel in Haßfurt (Main)

Martin Joseph Schlimbach (born January 28, 1841 in Würzburg ; † April 12, 1914 there ) was a German organ and instrument builder.

biography

He belonged to the organ builder “Dynasty” Schlimbach. His father Ernst Balthasar Schlimbach (born April 1, 1807 Bad Königshofen; † August 30, 1896 Würzburg), son of the instrument maker Johann Caspar Schlimbach (born July 30, 1777 in Merkershausen; † before May 21, 1861 in Bad Königshofen), took over in 1836 the orphaned workshop of the former court organ builder Johann Philipp Albert Seuffert in Würzburg and successfully continued the craft business. In 1873 Ernst Balthasar Schlimbach handed over the management of the organ building business to his son Martin Joseph, under whom the conversion from a handicraft business to a manufacture took place with increasing productivity. Precision craftsmanship in production as well as high-quality materials and intonation art reminiscent of French models helped the Würzburg Schlimbach organs to gain a special reputation up to World War I, so that their area of ​​distribution expanded from Main Franconia to North Baden and especially to the Middle Rhine. In 1913 he handed over the management of the company to his son Alfred Schlimbach . Martin Joseph Schlimbach found his final resting place in the grave of the Schlimbach family in the Würzburg main cemetery.

Organ buildings

Between 1836 and 1915 at least 250 organ works were created in the Würzburg workshops. The Schlimbach organs from the Würzburg workshops had a decisive influence on the organ culture in the Catholic diocese of Würzburg in the second half of the 19th century.

Piano construction

Hammer, pyramid and giraffe wings from Schlimbach have been preserved to this day, some of which were shown in a special exhibition in the Main Franconian Museum in 2003.

literature

  • Reinhold Albert: The Schlimbachs from Königshofen once determined the art of organ building in Lower Franconia. In: Home Yearbook of the Rhön-Grabfeld District 2013 - 35th year, p. 457.
  • Michael Mott : 50 Years Parish Church Uttrichshausen 1954–2004, Parish St. Bonifatius, Flieden 2004, p. 49 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhold Albert: Schlimbachs once determined the art of organ building in Lower Franconia. In: Home Yearbook of the Rhön-Grabfeld District 2013 - 35th year, p. 457.
  2. ^ Reinhold Albert: The famous Schlimbach family organ builders from Königshofen in Grabfeld. In: "Das Grabfeld", home page of the Association for Local History in Grabfeld No. 18. 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Schlimbach, Martin Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ and instrument builder
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1914
Place of death Wurzburg