Metzler organ building

Metzler Orgelbau AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	1890
Seat	Dietikon , Switzerland
management	Andreas Metzler ; ( Managing Director ) ; Mathias Metzler ; ( Chairman of the Board )
Number of employees	20th
Branch	Organ building
Website	www.metzler-orgelbau.ch

Metzler Orgelbau is a Swiss organ building company based in Dietikon in the canton of Zurich .

history

The company was founded by Jakob Metzler in Jenaz in the canton of Graubünden in 1890 and relocated to Felsberg around 1900 . In 1924, the company passed to the second generation under the management of Oskar and Albert Metzler and was initially transformed into J. Metzler & Söhne and in 1927 into Metzler & Cie. renamed. After a branch was opened in Dietikon in 1931, the company's headquarters were relocated there in 1933 and the current company building was subsequently moved into. The Felsberg location was continued as a branch from then on.

Contrary to the trend towards electropneumatic and later electric action actions, Metzler relied on the conservative, proven and long-lasting mechanical action again from 1937.

From 1949 the company appeared again under the name Metzler & Söhne . In 1954 the Felsberg branch was deleted. In 1968 the subsidiary Orgelbau Felsberg AG was founded in Felsberg , these were sold in 1971 and the Metzler activities in Felsberg were definitely given up.

When Oskar Metzler senior left the business in 1975, the company was converted into a stock corporation under the management of his two sons Oskar Metzler junior and Hansueli Metzler . Since 2006, Metzler Orgelbau AG has been fully owned by Hansueli Metzler and his two sons Andreas and Mathias, who are the fourth generation to run the family business.

Works (selection)

year	opus	place	church	Manuals	register	Remarks
1958	279	Schaffhausen	Muenster	III / P	45
1960	301	Zurich	Great Minster	IV / P	67	→ organ
1961	340	Davos	St. Johann	III / P	30th
1961	321	Arlesheim	Cathedral church	III / P	36	Restoration of the baroque Silbermann organ (1761) → organ
1964	370	Bolzano	Dompfarrkirche Maria Himmelfahrt	III / P	41
1965	377	Geneva	St. Peter's Cathedral	IV / P	67	in the French Baroque style of the late 18th century, supplemented by some romantic reed stops → organ
1966	387b	Gutersloh	To the good shepherd	II / P	26th	first Metzler organ in the Federal Republic of Germany → organ
1967	390	Brugg	Reformed city church	II / P	36
1968	409	Zurich - industrial quarter	St. Joseph	III / P	38	→ organ
1970	405	Frauenfeld	St. Nicholas	III / P	44
1970/1971	436	Ossiach Abbey	Parish Church of the Assumption	II / P	18th	Founder: Wilhelm Backhaus ; Inauguration: June 11, 1971;
1971	414	The hague	Grote Kerk	III / P	50	→ organ
1972	448	Zurich - Fluntern	St. Martin	II / P	22nd	→ organ
1973	444	St. Polten	Dom	III / P	36
1976	484	Cambridge	Trinity College Chapel	III / P	42
1976	493	Feldkirch	St. Nicholas Cathedral	III / P	35	→ organ
1978	485	Metzerlen-Mariastein	Monastery church	III / P	39
1978	494	Basel	Preacher Church	II / P	28	Restoration of the baroque Silbermann organ (1769) → organ
1979	488	Malters	St. Martin	III / P	42
1981	508	Bern	Holy Spirit Church	II / P	30th	→ organ
1981	517	Freiburg in Breisgau	St. Johann	III / P	50	→ organ
1981	518	Reichersberg	Collegiate church	II / P	22nd	behind the prospectus by Johann Michael Herberger (1779)
1982	521	Lucerne	Jesuit Church	III / P	39	New construction with partial reuse of stops from the predecessor organ by Goll (1897) → organ
1984	533	Zofingen	City Church	III / P	46
1984	534	Zurich	Zwinglikirche	III / P	36	in neo-baroque style arranged in 1999 and 2006 revised by Metzler → organ
1985	541	Thalwil	St. Felix and Regula	II / P	32	→ organ
1987	550	Oxford	St. Mary University Church	III / P	29	→ organ
1987	551	Wolhusen	St. Andrew	III / P	40
1987	552	Eutin	St. Michaelis Church	III / P	35	→ organ
1988	554	Salzburg	Salzburg Cathedral	III / P	58	Main organ → organ
1988	555	Bremgarten AG	City Church	III / P	40	in the style of the organ by Franz Joseph Otter (1789), parts of the prospectus taken over → Organ
1989	559	Salzburg	Franciscan Church	III / P	48	"Marienorgel" → organ
1990	563	Because on the Rhine	St. Peter and Paul	III / P	36	→ organ
1990	564	Butzbach	St. Mark's Church	II / P	22nd	New building behind the historic prospectus by Georg Wagner (1614) → organ
1990	565	Gams SG	St. Michael
1991	567	Loh (Stephansposching) in Lower Bavaria	Catholic pilgrimage and branch church of the Holy Cross	II / P	18th	New building in a historical housing in the late Rococo style around 1772
1991	568	St. Marienkirchen near Schärding , Austria	Catholic Parish Church of the Assumption	I / P	12	New building, housing modeled on the baroque choir organs of the Muri monastery church
1992	573	Stone at the Rhein	City Church	III / P	37
1993	577	Antwerp	Cathedral of Our Lady	III / P	42	→ organ
1993	578	Basel	Clarakirche	III / P	40	Tuning modified from Werckmeister III → organ
1995	588	Braunau am Inn	St. Stephan	III / P	46	→ organ
1997	593	Marl	St. George	III / P	34	→ organ
1998	600	Hopfgarten in Brixental	St. James and Leonhard	III / P	44	→ organ
1999	604	Krefeld - Hüls	St. Cyriac	III / P	49
2000	608	Trier-Palatinate	St. Martin	II / P	31
2001	613	Friedberg (Bavaria)	St. Jacob	III / P	40	→ organ
2002	616	Herzogenaurach	St. Magdalena	III / P	45
2002	617	Monza	Monza Cathedral	II / P	29	South organ → organ
2003	620	Salzburg	Franciscan Church	III / P	50	"Heilig-Geist-Organ" → Organ
2004	623	Traunkirchen	Parish Church of Traunkirchen	II / P	19th
2005	625	Zurich - Albisrieden	St. Conrad	II / P	26th	→ organ
2005	627	Free City	City parish church of St. Catherine	II / P	26th	→ main organ
2006	629	Rohr in Lower Bavaria	Monastery Church of the Assumption	II / P	29	behind the historical prospectus by Johann Konrad Brandenstein (1725) → organ
2007	633	Weir (Baden)	St. Martin	II / P	33
2007	634	Bad Bellingen	St. Leodegar	II / P	21st
2008	637	Taufers (Ahrntal)	Assumption Day	III / P	40
2008	639	Freiburg in Breisgau	Freiburg Minster	III / P	36	“Michaelsorgel” in the westwork → Organs of the Freiburg Minster
2009	640	Bern	Pauluskirche	III / P	37	→ organ
2010	642	Düren	Anna Church	III / P	44	Three transmissions in the pedal, one extension, four registers in the large pedal → organ
2011	647	Biel / Bienne	City Church	IV / P	50	→ organ
2012	650	Monestir de Santa Maria de Poblet	Monastery church	III / P	52
2014	655	Neustift monastery near Vahrn	Collegiate church	III / P	42	Brochure by Alexander Holzhay and Joseph Antoni Simnacher (around 1759–1761) → Organ
2015	658	Knarvik	New Church	II / P	35