Organ of the Dorpskerk Mensingeweer

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Organ of the Dorpskerk Mensingeweer
4871418 Mensingeweer organ.jpg
General
alternative name Schnitger organ
place Dorpskerk Mensingeweer
Organ builder Arp Schnitger
Construction year 1696-1699
Last renovation / restoration 2009-2011, Mense Ruiter
epoch Baroque
Organ landscape Netherlands
Technical specifications
Number of registers 9
Number of rows of pipes 9
Number of manuals 1
Tone tract Mechanically
Register action Mechanically
State in 1941 with the dummy parapet

The organ of the Dorpskerk Mensingeweer in the municipality of Het Hogeland in the Dutch province of Groningen was completed by Arp Schnitger in 1699 . It has nine registers on one manual and has an attached pedal . Originally the instrument was made for the church in Pieterburen , where a back positive was installed as a dummy in the gallery parapet. In 1901 the organ was sold to Mensingeweer, where Schnitger's case, prospectus and six stops have been preserved.

Building history

New building by Schnitger in 1698/1699

According to the contract of March 28, 1696, Schnitger supplied a small organ with eight stops without a pedal for the nearby Hervormde Kerk in Pieterburen. Schnitger entrusted the work on site to his apprentice master craftsman Johan Radeker (Johan Ratje), "who had developed a love affair at this place", so that Schnitger severely censured him for his negligent way of working. The prospect whistles of the praestant 8 ′ did not begin until the F. The three lowest notes C, D and E were merged with the Gedackt . In the contract a crumphorn 8 'was foreseen, in fact a trumpet 8' was performed. In 1698 Schnitger received 550 Caroligulden for his work. The case, bellows, the organ gallery and the carvings were not at his expense, but were made by the cabinet maker Allert Meijer, Schnitger's agent in the Groningen area, who received 600 Caroligulden for it on November 18, 1698. During the acceptance test, Petrus Havingha and Johann Eitzen, the organists of the Martinikerk and the Aa-Kerk in Groningen, checked the instrument. The parish later ordered a blind return positive, which Allert Meijer added in the gallery parapet in 1700 and for which he was paid separately; Schnitger delivered the prospect pipes. The parapet was delivered in 1703.

The five-part brochure structure is classically structured. The elevated, polygonal central tower is surrounded by two two-story flat fields that are divided by a transom. Only the upper pipes are ringing. The pointed side towers rest on curved consoles , the edge of which is decorated with a tendril. All pipe fields are closed at the top and bottom with a delicate veil . The cornices above and below have a finely graduated profile. The carving next to the central tower and the side wings show openwork acanthus tendrils . The side wings end in music- making putti whose wind instruments are missing.

The original disposition was as follows:

I Manual CDEFGA – c 3
Praestant 8th'
Holpijp 8th'
Octaaf 4 ′
Quint 3 ′
Octaaf 2 ′
Sexquialt II
Mixture III – V
Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant

Later work

In 1704 Johannes Radeker added an attached pedal, which he provided with abstracts made of string. Radeker maintained the organ until 1723, after that Albertus Antonius Hinsz .

Hinsz carried out a renovation in 1771/1772 for 856 guilders. He changed the composition of the mixture , expanded the short octave completely and added the missing bass notes of the praestant . The organ was given a 4 ′ flute as an additional register. Hinsz built a new keyboard, a new wind chest and adapted the action to the tone extension. For the pedal he created a wave board with wooden abstracts. Hinsz waited for the organ until his death in 1785. Then Frans Casper Snitger and Heinrich Hermann Freytag took over the maintenance and then the Freytag family until 1863.

Nicolaus Anthony Lohman, son of Dirk Lohman , carried out a major repair in 1867 for 1000 guilders and exchanged the two registers Sesquialter and Mixtur for romanticizing voices. The five lowest pipes of the Praestant von Hinsz were replaced by wooden pipes and the tremulant removed. The original wood-clear oak case was given a dark tint in the 19th century.

Petrus van Oeckelen was responsible for the instrument from 1888 to 1899 and was asked to design a new organ. The new building was decided on August 19, 1899. Friedrich Leichel built a new organ with a pneumatic action for 3800 guilders. The Schnitger organ was sold to Mensingeweer in 1901 for 400 guilders. WK Beukema transferred the instrument, built a new wind turbine and coated the prospect pipes with aluminum paint. The mute Rückpositiv remained unchanged in Pieterburen. In 1912 the organ in Mensingeweer was also given a back positive dummy. In 1953 the wind supply was electrified and in 1982 a Werckmeister tuning III was created.

restoration

Mense Ruiter built a new wind turbine in 1991. From 1995 the planning for the restoration was entrusted to the organ expert Stef Tuinstra . The unsuitable added Rückpositiv was removed in 2004 and the parapet was closed with a paneled panel. A comprehensive restoration was carried out by Ruiter from 2009 to 2011. The case and the action were repaired, missing carvings and missing piping added, and shortened pipes lengthened.

Disposition since 1867

The situation in 1867 was the basis for the restoration.

I Manual C – c 3
Praestant 8th' S.
Holpijp 8th' S / H
Viola da gamba D. 8th' L.
Octaaf 4 ′ S.
Fluit 4 ′ H
Salicionaal B / D 4 ′ L.
Quint 3 ′ S.
Octaaf 2 ′ S.
Trumpet B / D 8th' S.
Pedal C – d 1
attached H
  • Tremulant (R), windless
Remarks
S = Schnitger (1698)
H = Hinsz (1772)
L = Lohman (1867)

Technical specifications

  • 9 registers, 9 rows of pipes.
  • Wind supply :
    • Bellows: 1 magazine bellows (19th century)
    • Wind pressure: 65.5 mm water column
  • Wind chests (Hinsz)
  • Action:
    • Keyboards (Hinsz)
    • Tone action: mechanical
    • Stop action: mechanical
  • Mood :
    • almost equal mood
    • Pitch: one semitone above normal (a 1 = 440 Hz)

literature

Web links

Commons : Organ of the church of Mensingeweer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, p. 238.
  2. ↑ Edskes, Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work. 2nd edition 2013, p. 189.
  3. ↑ Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, p. 239.
  4. ↑ A surviving drawing of the former organ of the secularized church in Eppenhuizen (municipality of Eemsmond , Prov. Groningen) shows similarities with the pipe arrangement in Mensingeweer and, with regard to the design of the prospect, also with the Schnitger-Positiv in Hamburg-Bergstedt . At the moment, however, no statement can be made as to whether the Eppenhuizen organ also came from Schnitger's workshop. The organ was from the 17th or 18th century and was replaced by a new instrument in 1882. Victor Timmer: 'Een zeer aftandsch instrument'. Uit Groninger kerken huispijporgels (en related instruments). In: Het Orgel . Volume 62, 2018, Issue 1, pp. 20–33 (on Eppenhuizen: pp. 21–24).
  5. ↑ a b Edskes, Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work. 2nd edition 2013, p. 68.
  6. ↑ a b c Henk de Vries: Mensingeweer, Hervormde kerk (report from Het Orgel , 2012, Dutch), accessed on March 2, 2018.
  7. ↑ page by H.-W. Coordes , accessed March 2, 2018.

Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '2.4 "  N , 6 ° 27' 55.6"  E