Onimus (organ building family)

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Organ in Frankfurt-Höchst, Justinuskirche, by Johann Onimus

Johann Onimus (also: Onymus) (* 1689 in Ettenheimmünster ( Baden ), † 1759 in Mainz ) and his nephew Joseph Anton Onimus (also: Onymus) (born November 10, 1715 in Ettenheimmünster; † 1781 in Mainz) were organ builders from Mainz . In addition to 19 new organs, numerous repairs and other work in the Mainz area as well as in Upper and South Hesse can be assigned to the organ builder family Onimus.

Life of Johann Onimus

Johann Onimus was Mainz on June 10, 1711 citizen and worked as an independent organ builder without the Mainz Cathedral Chapter bestallt to have been.

Life of Joseph Anton Onimus

In 1760 Joseph Anton Onimus took over the workshop of his deceased uncle. In 1781 Joseph Anton Onimus had a fatal accident during the construction of his largest organ for the Church of St. Ignaz in Mainz when he fell in his house and broke his neck.

Work of Johann Onimus

Organ in Ilbenstadt (1735)

Six new organs by Johann Onimus are documented. Its only surviving organ dates from 1733 to 1735. It is located in the minor basilica and Catholic parish church of St. Maria, St. Petrus and Paulus of the former Ilbenstadt monastery . After renovations and alterations by Julius Hembus (* July 23, 1903; † April 20, 1983) from Kronberg im Taunus in 1930 and by Gebrüder Hillebrand Orgelbau in 1970 , the mechanical action and stop mechanism has changed significantly today. The case carved by Franz Voßbach (Mainz) including the trumpet angel by Martin Biterich (also Bitterich ; * 1691 in South Tyrol; † 1759 in Mainz), the prospect pipes and several stops have been preserved from the historical inventory . Of the new organs in Bauschheim (single-manual organ from 1732 based on a Principal 4 ′) and in the Justinuskirche in Höchst (1737, II / P / 27), only the brochures can be seen. His new organ in Mainz-Laubenheim from 1742 cost 193 guilders and 8 kreuzers. The scope and disposition are unknown. It was in need of repair in 1790 and was destroyed in 1794. The one-manual works in Ginsheim (1746; destroyed 1944) and Hattersheim am Main (1757; demolished 1914) have not been preserved. Johann Onimus carried out renovations and repairs on the Mainz organs of St. Rochus (1728), St. Emmeran (1729), St. Quintin (1731) and St. Ignaz (1731–1759) as well as the Protestant church in Mommenheim (1742/1743) ) by.

Work of Joseph Anton Onimus

Organ prospectus in Mainz, St. Ignaz, by Joseph Anton Onimus

The organ built in 1763 by the cath. Parish church St. Walburga in Friesenheim (Rheinhessen) and the organ of the catholic church that was built at the same time. Parish churches in Weinolsheim (Rheinhessen) are the only ones by Joseph Anton Onimus in which a large part of the interior pipes are still original. The console of the organ in Friesenheim was reconstructed in 1993 by Förster & Nicolaus based on the model of the organ around 1760 from the workshop of Joseph Anton Onimus, which is located in the Catholic. Parish church of St. Urban is located in Gau-Heppenheim (Rheinhessen). This organ work was probably stripped of all of its pipework in 1917, which is why it has been in a “slumber” since then. In addition to the case, the manual wind chest without loops and sticks, the manual, the wave board and parts of the game and stop mechanism have been preserved. Their disposition can be approximately reconstructed using existing fragments of the registration plates. Accordingly, the organ had the manual range of C – c³ and an attached pedal of C – d °. Presumably the disposition was: Principal 4 ′, Großgedackt 8 ′, Flaut travers (treble) 8 ′, Pointed flute or Gedackt flute 4 ′, Quint 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′, Sesquialter, Octav 2 ′, Flageolet 2 ′, Mixtur III 1 ′. At the exhibition "The Organ as a Sacred Work of Art", which was shown in the Mainz Cathedral Museum from 1991 to 1992, this organ was presented as an exhibit.

In the 1760s, Joseph Anton built a one-manual instrument with 14 registers for the evang. Church in Dalheim (Rheinhessen) , whose case has been preserved, around 1766 an organ for the Catholic parish church of St. Pankratius Mainz-Hechtsheim, whose case has also been preserved, in 1770 a single-manual organ for the Catholic Church. Parish church St. Laurentius in Mainz-Ebersheim , which was expanded after the Second World War by a back work with a second manual. Original Onimus pipes have been preserved in the main work. Onimus delivered further new buildings in 1772 for the Catholic Church in Kaub (I / P / 10), 1775 for Biebesheim am Rhein and 1777 for Oberhöchstadt (I / P / 12) as well as in the same year a small work with six registers for the Mainz Hospital Church " To the Holy Spirit ”. In 1781 he built his largest and last organ for the St. Ignaz parish church in Mainz , which was replaced in 1836 by a new work by Bernhard Dreymann . The case, designed by Peter Metz, is one of the few preserved in the classical style .

successor

After his death, Johann Adam Flügel, a journeyman of Philipp Ernst Wegmann , took over the Mainz workshop and in this way ensured the continuation of the tradition.

literature

  • Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.1 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 1: A-K . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 .
  • Franz Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.2 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 2: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1370-6 .
  • Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.1 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 1: A-L . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 .
  • Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer, Matthias Thömmes: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 4: Koblenz and Trier administrative districts, Altenkirchen and Neuwied districts (=  contributions to the history of music in the Middle Rhine region . Volume 40 ). 2 volumes. Schott, Mainz 2005, ISBN 978-3-7957-1342-3 .
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments , Hessen I: Administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Edited by Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 .
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984.
  • Achim Seip: Old and new organs in the diocese of Mainz. Publ. Diocese of Mainz, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-2838-9 .
  • Achim Seip: The Mainz organ building workshop Onimus. In: Ars Organi . Volume 43, 1995, pp. 147-154.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Achim Seip: Old and new organs in the diocese of Mainz. Mainz 2003, p. 122.
  2. ↑ a b Christian Binz: The Johann-Onimus-Organ of the St. Justinuskirche in Frankfurt am Main-Höchst (PDF file; 1.4 MB), accessed on March 16, 2017.
  3. ^ Bösken, Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3, Part 1: A – L. 1988, pp. 506-511.
  4. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2, Part 1: A – K. 1975, p. 268 f.
  5. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 1, 1967, p. 377; Franz Staab: History of Laubenheim up to the end of the 18th century. In: Ortsverwaltung Mainz-Laubenheim (Ed.), Gebhard Kurz (Red.): Laubenheimer Chronik. 2nd Edition. Mainz-Laubenheim 1988, pp. 38–100, here: pp. 68 and 98, note 220.
  6. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 1. 1967, p. 308 f.
  7. ↑ Achim Seip: Old and new organs in the diocese of Mainz. Mainz 2003, p. 38.
  8. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 1. 1967, p. 267.
  9. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2, Part 2: A – K. 1975, p. 485.
  10. ^ Bösken, Fischer, Thömmes: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 4. 2005, p. 329.
  11. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2, Part 2: L – Z. 1975, p. 682.
  12. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 1. 1967, pp. 119-122.
  13. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 2, Part 2: L – Z. 1975, p. 769.