Michael Oestreich

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Michael Oestreich (born June 23, 1802 in Oberbimbach ; † February 4, 1838 in Dringenberg ) was a German organ builder who mainly worked in the Minden area .

family

Michael Oestreich was the second of three sons of the organ builder Johann Georg Oestreich (born February 2, 1770 in Oberbimbach; † February 28, 1858 ibid) from his marriage to Margarete born in 1798. Fist. All three sons also became organ builders and were thus members of the fourth of five generations of organ builders in the Oestreich family .

Act

Organ of the Ev. Church in Horn

Michael Oestreich learned from his father and initially worked in his father's workshop. He and his two brothers, Adam Joseph (1799–1843) and Augustin (1807 – after 1855), were involved in the construction of the organ in the church of St. Laurentius in Großkrotzenburg through their father from 1826–1828 . Michael Oestreich went to Dringenberg in Westphalia around 1830 and became a journeyman with Arnold Isfording (1764–1831). In 1830/1831 he built the organ in the Evangelical Reformed Church in Horn near Detmold , using the existing organ prospectus from the late 17th century . Isfording died in 1831. Oestreich took over the management of the workshop, received official authorization in May 1832 to build, repair and tune organs in the administrative district of Minden , and in 1833 married Isfording's widow; the marriage remained childless. He mainly dealt with organ repairs and maintenance. The 20- register organ he built between 1833 and 1836 in the old Kilian's Church in Schötmar , which was demolished in 1850, has not been preserved.

The story of the small organ he built and placed in the Protestant church in Bad Lippspringe after his death is interesting . The positive organ , a single-manual organ without pedal, Oestrich had an innkeeper in Bösingfeld as deposit must be left for the inn debts and it was with Oestrichs death in possession of this innkeeper. The Protestant parish of Lippspringe bought it for 100 thalers and, after it was delivered in June 1839, initially stored it with a private person until the Paderborn organ builder Karl Joseph Eggert finally installed the instrument in the church. The organ was still maintained in 1918 and 1926, but was then replaced in 1934 by a new organ from the Steinmann workshop in Vlotho .

literature

  • Gottfried Rehm : The organ builder family Oestreich. In: Acta Organologica . Vol. 7, 1973, pp. 37-66.
  • Gottfried Rehm: Contributions to the history of the organ building family Oestreich. In: Acta Organologica . Vol. 21, 1990, pp. 55-99.
  • Gottfried Rehm: Musikantenleben. Contributions to the music history of Fulda and the Rhön in the 18th and 19th centuries. Parzeller, Fulda 1997, ISBN 3-7900-0282-8 (= publication by the Fulda History Association )

Web links

  • Gottfried Rehm: The organ builder family Oestreich. In: The Johann-Markus-Oestreich-Organ (I / 10, 1799) in the Evangelical Church of Fraurombach. Restoration documentation, created by Orgelbau Andreas Schmidt, 2014, p. 4–10 (here p. 7).

Footnotes

  1. ↑ He emigrated to the USA in 1855 .
  2. ↑ Also known as Arnold Isvording.
  3. ↑ This organ was rebuilt in 1913 by the Lemgo company Friedrich Klassmeier and in 1968 by Paul Ott from Göttingen . Organ atlas Ostwestfalen-Lippe: Horn, Reformed Church. Retrieved May 18, 2014 .
  4. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Prussian Government in Minden, year 1832, p. 172, no. 318
  5. ↑ Evangelical Reformed Parish Schötmar: The Kilian Church
  6. ^ Organ history
  7. ↑ The church organs in Bad Lippspringe , in: Wo die Lippe jumps , information series of the Heimatverein Bad Lippspringe e. V., 20th year, issue 59, December 2008, pp. 7–15
personal data
SURNAME Oestreich, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberbimbach
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1838
Place of death Dringenberg