Organ of the Dorpskerk Harkstede

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Organ of the Dorpskerk Harkstede
Harkstede organ.jpg
General
alternative name Schnitger organ
place Dorpskerk Harkstede
Organ builder Arp Schnitger
Construction year 1696
Last renovation / restoration 1907 Marten Eertman
epoch Baroque
Organ landscape Netherlands
Technical specifications
Number of registers 9
Number of rows of pipes 11
Number of manuals 1
Tone tract Mechanically
Register action Mechanically

The organ of the Dorpskerk Harkstede in the municipality of Midden-Groningen in the Dutch province of Groningen was built by Arp Schnitger in 1696 . It originally had eight registers on one manual and now has nine registers and an attached pedal . The substation is built as a dummy in the gallery parapet and gives the small organ a more representative appearance. The case, prospectus and five registers have been partially or fully preserved. It is similar to the instruments in Blankenhagen (1687), Eenum (1704) and Godlinze (1704). Of all Schnitger organs in the Groninger Land, only the one in Harkstede shows the original wood-like appearance of the oak case.

Building history

New building by Schnitger in 1696

Schnitger built a parapet organ with eight registers for the newly built Harksteder Church in 1696 . The instrument is built in a round arch, which is let into a pointed arch niche. The organ was in the back and originally had no pedal, as the bellows was built into the lower case. In 1702, Schnitger created a small house organ for the workroom with library behind the organ of the founder and patron saint Henrik Piccardt.

Dirk Lohman repaired the organ in 1794, built two new wedge bellows and added an attached pedal keyboard.

The substructure is flanked in the gallery parapet by two carved coats of arms by Hendrik Piccardt and his wife, who held the right of patronage . The structure of the prospectus is based on the organ of the Blankenhagen village church . The lower part in the parapet is three-part and flat. The central field is surrounded by two two-story flat fields that are divided by a profiled transom. The resounding manual work in the upper part is structured in five axes and has an elevated, polygonal central tower and two pointed side towers that rest on curved consoles with tendrils. Between the towers, two-story flat fields mediate, which are arranged exactly above the lower flat fields. All pipe fields close with a little veil at the top and bottom . The upper and lower cornices of the manual work are profiled. The carving next to the central tower and the narrow side wings show openwork acanthus tendrils that end in putti making music on the side wings . The carving, which is more economical than on comparable organs due to the limited space available, can be traced back to Allert Meijer and Jan de Rijk.

The original disposition can be reconstructed using a disposition collection by Gerhard Wilhelm Lohmann from around 1835:

I Manual C–
Holpijp 8th'
Praestant 4 ′
Fluit 4 ′
Quint 3 ′
Octaaf 2 ′
Woudfluit 2 ′
Mixture III – IV
shelf 8th'

Reconstruction by Eertman in 1907

Marten Eertman from Noordwolde removed Schnitger's interior work and placed a new wind chest with keyboard and action as well as bellows in the style of his time behind the case . The disposition has been expanded with purchased registers. His organ had nine registers including four Schnitger registers, the intonation of which was little changed. The original prospect pipes have been decommissioned and have been preserved.

While all the other Schnitger organs have been thoroughly restored today (only in the Groninger Aa-kerk was the original condition preserved), the organ in Harkstede has yet to be restored.

Disposition since 1907

I Manual C – f 3
Praestant 8th' ME
Bourdon 16 ′ ME
Holpyp 8th' S / ME
Aeoline 8th' ME
Praestant 4 ′ S.
Octaaf 4 ′ ME
Fluit travers 4 ′ ME
Quint 3 ′ S / ME
Woudfluit 2 ′ S / ME
Mixture III D S / ME
Pedal C-a
attached ME
Remarks
S = Schnitger (1696)
ME = Eertman (1902)

Technical specifications

  • 9 registers, 11 rows of pipes.
  • Wind supply :
    • Bellows: 1 magazine bellows (Eertman)
    • Wind pressure: 80 mm water column
  • Wind loading (Eertman)
  • Action:
    • Keyboard (Eertman)
    • Tone action: mechanical
    • Stop action: mechanical
  • Mood :

literature

  • Cornelius H. Edskes , Harald Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work (=  241st publication by the Society of Organ Friends ). 2nd Edition. Hauschild, Bremen 2013, ISBN 978-3-89757-525-7 , pp. 62 f, 189 .
  • Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 , p. 226 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, p. 236.
  2. ↑ a b Edskes, Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work. 2nd edition 2013, p. 189.
  3. ↑ Edskes, Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work. 2nd edition 2013, p. 62.
  4. ↑ Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, p. 236; Lohmann only mentioned seven registers and overlooked the fluit.
  5. ↑ Orgeldatabase: Organ in Harkstede , accessed on March 2, 2018.

Coordinates: 53 ° 12 ′ 46.8 "  N , 6 ° 41 ′ 40"  E