Obuch (organ builder)

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Obuch was a family of organ builders in Mohrungen in Prussia in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Organ builder

Matthias Obuch

In Morag there was an organ builder workshop since about 1670, but is not known by whom. A first repair is known from Matthias Obuch around 1690. He was then also city treasurer and founded the Obuchshöfchen estate , which still exists as a village today. His last organ works are known from 1726; in 1744 he was said to have died a few years ago .

Sons were:

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Obuch (born May 23, 1707), first East Prussian missionary in Nagapatnam
  • Christoph Heinrich Obuch (1713–1787), organ builder in Mohrungen
  • David Friedrich Obuch, church governor in Mohrungen around 1760 (relationship suspected)

Christoph Heinrich Obuch

Christoph Heinrich Obuch was born on June 5, 1713 in Mohrungen. He was a pupil of Andreas Hildebrandt in Danzig until about 1733. After that he went on wanderings to Courland , Livonia , Russia , Sweden , Denmark , Holstein and Lower Saxony , where he worked in Lüneburg in 1740 . In that year he had to return to Mohrungen because of the war. In the following year Obuch applied for a privilege as an organ builder, which he was initially denied on the grounds that he should first build a sample of his skills. Since this was difficult to finance without a privilege and Adam Gottlob Casparini protested against it as a privileged court organ builder in Königsberg, Obuch went to him to work for him for 23 months as an assistant. In 1744, after his return to Mohrungen, he submitted a new application, which was again rejected due to a missing sample. Obuch built the first small instruments and was finally granted the privilege in 1750 after Casparini's fierce resistance was no longer successful.

Christoph Heinrich Obuch died on September 12, 1787 in Mohrungen. No descendants or successors are known. Students were Johann Friedrich Rhode , who had worked in Saalfeld in 1749, and probably Gottlieb Paschke, who built organs very similar to Obuch.

Organs (selection)

Matthias Obuch

11 new buildings, three attributions and three repairs are known by Matthias Obuch. The prospectus in Morąg has been preserved .

New organs

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1693 Trunz (Milejewo) church Attribution, originally implemented in Elbing, St. Anna, 1762/63
around 1700 Old town church I / P 12
1705 Mohrungen (Morąg) Ev. City Church II / P 26th Brochure received, 1906 new pneumatic building by Wittek
1707 Giant Castle (Prabuty) City Church I / P 18th Repairs and expansion, burned in 1945
1716 Altfelde (Stare Pole) church II 20th without pedal, built in 1892 by August Terletzki

Christoph Heinrich Obuch

21 new buildings, three attributions and a few repairs by Christoph Heinrich Obuch are known today, in the former East Prussian Oberland , as well as near Elbing and Marienburg . All instruments only had one manual . The prospectus and parts of the organ in Zalewo (Saalfeld) have been preserved, as are other prospectuses.

New organs

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1742 Mulhouse (Młynary) church helped with Casparini , received a brochure
1745 Grünhagen (Zielonka Pasłęcka) church Positive, first own work
1748 Elbing (Elbląg) Holy Spirit Church I / P 12
1748-1752 Saalfeld (Zalewo) City Church I / P 17th Prospectus received, 1902 new construction or renovation by Wittek with parts of the previous organ, 1943 renovation by Kemper
1749 Lenzen church I / P 10
around 1750 Marienau church I / P 10
1752 Schadwalde (Szawałd) church I / P
1754 Thiensdorf (Jezioro) church I / P 13
1762 Stall (Stalewo) church I / P 13
1782 Molthainen (Mołtajny) church I / P 14th

More work

  • 1750–1752 Prussian Holland (Pasłęk), church, dismantling and reconstruction of the Hildebrandt organ from 1717/19 (II / P, 36) due to repairs in the church, organ preserved

literature

  • Werner Renkewitz , Jan Janca : History of organ building in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1984. Volume 1. Weidlich, Würzburg 1984. pp. 208–248.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Jakob Lutze: Choral Book. Second part. Königsberg 1831. p. 61 with the disposition at that time
  2. ↑ Johann Jakob Lutze: Choral Book . Second part. Königsberg 1831. p. 61
  3. ^ Church of John the Baptist in Zalewo Leksykon Kultury, History of the Organ (Polish)
  4. ↑ Fatherland Archives for Science, Culture, Industry and Agriculture or Prussia. Provincial Leaves. 14th volume. Königsberg 1835. p. 249