Organ of the Bartholomew Church in Pasłęk
| Organ of the Bartholomew Church in Pasłęk | |
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| place | Bartholomew's Church in Pasłęk |
| Organ builder | Andreas Hildebrandt |
| Construction year | 1717-1719 |
| Last renovation / restoration | 2000–2010 through the Wegscheider organ workshop |
| epoch | Baroque |
| Organ landscape | Organ landscape East Prussia |
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| Technical specifications | |
| Number of registers | 36 |
| Number of rows of pipes | 41 |
| Number of manuals | 2 |
The organ of St. Bartholomew's Church in Pasłęk is the largest surviving baroque organ in northern Poland . It was built by Andreas Hildebrandt from 1717 to 1719 and restored by the Wegscheider organ workshop from 2010 to 2013 . The instrument has 36 registers , which are divided into two manuals and pedal .
history
Predecessor organs
Around 1550 a positive from the Bartholomäuskirche in Preussisch Holland was sold to the organist in Elbing . In 1580 a new positive was placed in the church.
In 1597 Joachim Zickermann from Königsberg built a new organ. The carver Asman Moeller from Lübeck designed the prospectus, which was gilded and painted by Alexander Daudin (Dadin) from Italy.
New building by Andreas Hildebrandt
From 1717 to 1719 the organ builder from Danzig, Andreas Hildebrandt, built a new instrument using parts of the previous organ . It was his largest new organ to date. The carver of the prospectus is unknown, but he probably came from Elbing. The organ works were placed in two independent cases, the manual works in the south and the two pedal works in the north. Hildebrandt had probably seen this design in the Trinity Church in Danzig, where he had worked in 1710. On May 28, 1719, the organ was inaugurated on Pentecost Sunday.
Repairs
On April 24, 1750, a contract was signed with Christoph Heinrich Obuch, which provided for dismantling for construction work in the church as well as repairs and reconstruction. On April 4, 1452 this work was completed. A cost estimate from Obuch for further repairs, which were completed at the end of the following year, has been received from July 25, 1783. Further repairs were carried out in 1806 by Jacob Preuss, the son of Johann Preuss , from Königsberg and in 1832 by Johann Friedrich Frost.
Minor changes
On August 1, 1861, a contract was signed with G. Ziegler from Marienburg, who made some changes in the disposition . In the upper part, a Salicional 4 'was to be converted to an 8' with a new bass octave, a wooden Lieblich Gedackt flute 16 'was to be newly installed, and a Kutzflute 8' and a Sesquialtera removed twice. The tuning of the chorus was to be changed by moving the action down by half a tone, a manual coupler was built in and the old register plates were replaced by new ones on red saffiano with gold printing.
On December 29, 1864, Cantor Grabowski complained in a letter to the superintendent about a few missing pipes.
In 1881 new keyboards up to f³ were added by August Terletzki from Elbing, but they remained silent, the register Vox humana 8 'was replaced by violin principal 8', shawmose 8 'removed, viola di gamba 8' and salicional 8 'renewed in the treble and mixture partly newly built. His successor Wittek was obliged to carry out the maintenance and tuning in accordance with the contract.
Between 1928 and 1929, the W. Sauer company from Frankfurt / Oder converted the mechanical action to a pneumatic one.
After 1945
In the last weeks of the Second World War, the organ was partly looted. After 1950 missing pipes were replaced by zinc pipes. In the course of the following decades the organ became practically unplayable due to insufficient maintenance, improper repair attempts, wear and tear and soiling.
Restoration 2010–2013
In 2009, the preservation of monuments began with the analysis of the organ and plans for restoration. An organ commission was formed, experts were interviewed (Baltic Organ Center Stralsund and others) and other organs were examined by Andreas Hildebrandt and his students. The Wegscheider organ workshop from Dresden was commissioned with the work. This was supported by Szymon Januszkiewicz. In 2010 the organ was dismantled and first the prospectus and the bellows were restored. The remaining parts were then restored using a record of the original disposition. The work was completed in 2013.
Disposition
After the restoration in 2013, the original layout of 1719 was restored.
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Play aid :
- Stop valve: I, II, pedal lower tray, pedal upper tray
- Tremulant , 8 angel figures with bells, 2 cymbal stars
- Transposition Ober Werck: a 1 = 465 Hz to 415 Hz
Technical specifications
- 36 registers
- Wind pressure: 64 mm water column
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Mood :
- Neidhardt "for a big city" (1724)
- Pitch a 1 = 465 Hz at 18 ° C
literature
- Frithjof Kluke: The organ of St. Bartholomew's Church in Pr. Holland: 1719–1929, on the occasion of the renovation in 1929. Prussian Holland 1929.
- Organy Andreasa Hildebrandta w kościele św. Bartłomieja w Pasłęku. Wydawnictwo UNUM, Kraków 2013, ISBN 978-83-7643-102-4 .
Web links
- Building history Hildebrandt Pasłęk
- Organ in Pasłęk ostpreussen.net
- Organ in Pasłęk Baltic Organ Center
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rarity of the baroque organ building. The Dresden workshop Wegscheider restored an organ in Poland for the first time. Dresdner Latest News from September 9, 2015.
- ↑ Disposition Hildebrandt Pasłęk (German).
- ↑ Organy Andreasa Hildebrandta w kościele św. Bartłomieja w Pasłęku. UNUM, Kraków 2013. pp. 85–87.