Organ of the Emmaus Chapel (Hatzfeld)

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Organ of the Emmaus Chapel (Hatzfeld)
Hatzfeld Emmaus Chapel Organ (08) .jpg
General
place Emmaus Chapel (Hatzfeld)
Organ builder Johann Christian Rindt
Construction year 1706
Last renovation / restoration 1982–1984 by Gerald Woehl
epoch Baroque
Organ landscape Hesse
Technical specifications
Number of registers 7th
Number of rows of pipes 7th
Number of manuals 1

The organ of the Emmaus Chapel Hatzfeld was built in 1706 by Johann Christian Rindt and is his only surviving work. The small organ has seven stops on a manual without a pedal . The basic inventory has been preserved and is one of the oldest playable organs in Northern Hesse .

Building history

For the Hatzfeld Romanesque pillar basilica St. Cyriax from the 12th century, the municipality acquired a shelf in 1664 . Conrad Schmitt from Kirtorf built a small organ with four wooden stops in 1686.

Rindt originally built the organ for the city church (14th century) in his hometown, using older registers from the previous organ. The two thick-walled lead registers Groß Gedact 8 ' and Principal 4' were taken from the organ of an unknown organ builder, probably from the beginning of the 17th century. According to the building inscription on the lower case, Rindt carried out a renovation in 1733.

In 1871 Peter Dickel built a new organ for the parish church in Hatzfeld. From 1868 to 1872 he moved the Rindt organ to St. Cyriax, which today serves as a cemetery chapel. In this implementation, Dickel replaced the entire action and the three high registers.

When the organ began to deteriorate in the 1950s, the organ researcher Dieter Schneider (Biedenkopf) drew attention to the value of the organ and its threatening condition in articles. It was mainly through his commitment that the organ was professionally restored in the 1980s and saved from being put down.

description

Chased prospect pipes
Ornate lower case

The playful system indicates its original use as a parapet organ. The game table until the keyboard original documents obtained, including the keyboard lid with its wrought iron hinges. The bass octave is designed as a short octave (without C sharp, D flat, F sharp and G sharp). There are inlays above the keyboard .

The richly decorated five-axis prospectus based on Principal 4 ′ shows many similarities with the Rindt organ of the Nikolaikirche in Caldern . In Hatzfeld the elevated central tower is polygonal and in Caldern it is a pointed tower. The prospect pipes are still original in both instruments; five were reconstructed in Hatzfeld in 1984. Originally the leaden prospect pipes were wrapped with tin foil and had labia painted like in calderas . The low E with the unusual three-pronged upper labium served as a template for the reconstruction of the central pipe. Originally made of wood and mute, it has been made of metal since 1984. The flanking pipes have keel arches. This is followed by pipes with three points and, on the outside, pipes with round labia. Two low flat fields lead over to the medium-sized pointed towers on the sides. The longest pipe in each of the flat fields and the pointed towers is chiseled . The pipes next to the central pipe in the pointed tower have upper lobes with keel bows, all other front pipes have pointed lobes. The five pipe fields are closed at the top with gilded, openwork tendrils, which can also be found on the three towers and on the side of the central tower. Figures of lions are placed above the flat fields, while the three towers are decorated with spikes with balls. The flanking blind wings show King David playing the harp under an angel of trumpets, surrounded by rocailles .

The six lowest notes of Gedackt 8 ′ are made of wood and may have been added later. The remaining metal pipes are like the Principal 4 'without tone letters. Rindts Gedackt 4 ′ is made of metal and has tone letters. His Octav 2 ′, also with tone letters, is made of lead with a tin content of 3–5%. The top octave and five other pipes were reconstructed in 1984. The three registers Quint 3 ′, Octav 2 ′ and Tertia come from Woehl's workshop, but the D and E notes of the Tertia are still original and served as a template for the scale lengths.

Curved consoles under the pointed towers mediate the narrow lower case. They have a gold-plated building inscription: “IOHANN CHRISTIAN RINDT MEFACT. ANNO 1706 RENOV. 1733 ". The inscription was painted over by 1960 and was then read out in "IOHANN SEBASTIAN RINDT". The central tower is supported by a column, which is designed in the upper part like a (not yet interpreted) figurehead . The lower case has six richly profiled panels, which are surrounded by gilded tendrils and painted with flowers on the inside. Winged angel heads are attached to the top two panels. Drilling above the fields may indicate the existence of a tongue register in the prospectus.

renovation

Original side game table

After a renovation of the Emmaus Chapel in the 1970s, the baroque organ was restored to its original state from 1982 to 1984 according to strict monument conservation principles. Gerald Woehl restored the organ and reconstructed lost parts. An old key pad was used to restore the manual keyboard. The missing wooden brochure parts were reconstructed, the original color version was exposed. A pencil note on the back of the case provided information about the three lost register names (Quint 3 ′, Octav 2 ′ and Tertia). Woehl reconstructed the bellows system including the wind chests . Finally the mid-tone mood was set.

Disposition since 1984 (= 1706)

Manual CDEFGA – c 3
Great Gedact 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Gedact 4 ′
Quint 3 ′
Octav 2 ′
Tertia 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Great Octave 1'

Technical specifications

  • 7 registers
  • Action :
    • Tone action: mechanical
    • Stop action: mechanical
  • Wind supply:
    • Three wedge bellows (by means of lime or electric motor)
  • Mood :

literature

  • Hans Martin Balz : The Rindt organ from 1706 in Hatzfeld and its restoration. In: Acta Organologica . No. 22, 1994, p. 242.
  • Dieter Großmann: Organs and Organ Builders in Hesse (=  contributions to Hessian history . Volume 12 ). 2nd Edition. Trautvetter & Fischer, Marburg 1998, ISBN 3-87822-109-6 , pp. 103 .
  • Axel Marburg, Dieter Schneider: The organ builders Rindt and Irle. In: Hinterland history sheets. Vol. 86, No. 1, March 2007, pp. 1, 2, 7, and No. 2, June 2007, pp. 10-13 (history supplements to the Hinterländer Anzeiger , Biedenkopf).
  • Dieter Schneider: The organ of the Emmaus Chapel in Hatzfeld. In: Hinterland history sheets. Volume 43, 1964/3, p. 4.
  • Dieter Schneider: But seven registers. Correction to the organ of the Emmaus Chapel in Hatzfeld. In: Hinterland history sheets. Volume 45, 1966/1, p. 39.
  • Dieter Schneider: The Emmaus Chapel and the Rindt Organ. The oldest organ in Northern Hesse sounds in the Romanesque pillar basilica. In: Hinterland history sheets. Volume 53, 1974/3, pp. 167, 170.
  • Eckhard Trinkaus: organs and organ builders in the former district of Ziegenhain (Hessen) (=  publications of the historical commission for Hessen . Volume 43 ). Elwert, Marburg 1981, ISBN 3-7708-0713-8 , pp. 271 .

Recordings / sound carriers

  • Roland Götz plays the Rindt organ (1706) in Hatzfeld / Eder. Works by Samuel Scheidt . studio XVII augsburg, (96503).
  • Organs in Hessen from four centuries. Reinhardt Menger in Worfelden, Hatzfeld, Nieder-Moos, Biebesheim and Frankfurt am Main. Bauer Studios SACD 9088-3, Cantata Domino.
  • Joseph Payne - Buxheimer Organ Book . Vol. 2. Naxos, 1995.

Web links

Commons : Emmauskapelle (Hatzfeld)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ev.-luth. Hatzfeld and Holzhausen parishes , accessed on December 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d Gabriel Isenberg: Hatzfeld Ev. Emmaus Chapel , accessed December 15, 2017.
  3. ^ 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 , p. 371 .
  4. ^ Schneider: The organ of the Emmaus chapel in Hatzfeld. 1964, p. 4; 1966, p. 39.
  5. ↑ Oberhessische Presse from August 8, 2017: Dieter Schneider died , accessed on December 15, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b Großmann: Organs and Organ Builders in Hessen. 1998, p. 103.
  7. ^ Balz: The Rindt organ from 1706 in Hatzfeld and its restoration. 1994, p. 242.
  8. ^ Trinkaus: organs and organ builders in the former district of Ziegenhain (Hesse). 1981, p. 271.
  9. ↑ a b Marburg, Schneider: The organ builders Rindt and Irle. 2007, p. 10.
  10. ↑ Rindt organ at regiowiki.hna.de , accessed on December 15, 2017.

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 '4.4 "  N , 8 ° 32" 59.2 "  E