Organ of the Evangelical Church in Worfelden

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Organ of the Evangelical Church in Worfelden
Worfelden organ freestanding.jpg
General
place Ev. Worfelden Church
Organ builder Adam Knauth
Construction year 1623/24
Last renovation / restoration 1982/83 by Jürgen Ahrend
epoch Renaissance / early baroque
Organ landscape Hesse
Technical specifications
Number of registers 6th
Number of rows of pipes 7th
Number of manuals 1
Gaming table
In the 17th century an angel box was added for the additional notes F sharp and G sharp
Tabs on the left

The organ of the Evangelical Church in Worfelden was built in 1623/24 by Adam Knauth for the Darmstadt Castle Church and installed in Worfelden in 1831 . It has six registers and has been preserved almost unchanged. The valuable historical instrument is one of the oldest organs in Germany and a sounding testimony to organ building from the transition period between Renaissance and early Baroque .

Building history

Adam Knauth from Bamberg ("außm Stift Bamberg") moved to Darmstadt and in 1623/1624 created a small instrument without a pedal with six registers for the castle church there. All pipes were made of metal. The prospectus has a polygonal protruding central tower and two lateral flat fields that are richly decorated with gold-plated carvings. The case is almost completely decorated with ornaments, tendrils and cartouches. It is one of the few new organs in Hessen during the Thirty Years' War .

In 1681 Johann Anton Meyer (Darmstadt) carried out a repair and renewed the color version; Instead of the original black and gold version, the case was given a blue, red and gold version. The angels on the side were probably added in this context. The left hides a pipe case in which the pipes for the bass notes F sharp and G sharp were added on a small additional wind chest. Meyer took on further work in 1696 and possibly replaced the prospect pipes . In 1709, Landgrave Ernst Ludwig donated the organ to the city of Zwingenberg (Bergstrasse) , where it was in service until 1830. Then the Worfelden parish bought the plant, where it is located today. Probably by Heinrich Bechstein in 1903 the span bellows were replaced by magazine bellows and the mixture changed to a sesquialtera . In 1930 Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau carried out repairs, renewed the keyboards and installed an electric fan. In 1956 the paint of the case was renewed.

Restoration 1983

The poor condition made a thorough restoration necessary in 1983, which Jürgen Ahrend from Leer-Loga , one of the leading organ restorers, carried out. Ahrend reconstructed the original bellows and the tremulant and restored the sesquialtera in its original composition. The common name "Mixtur" was retained, although the original inscription as "Sesquialtera" could be proven on a single pipe. Only 34 of the 329 pipes had to be made from scratch. The restorer Helmer Hut uncovered the color version from 1681.

particularities

The small organ is one of the very few works from the beginning of the 17th century that has been preserved almost intact. It enables the reproduction of contemporary organ music from the Renaissance and the Baroque in a pure third tuning, as was widely used on organs until around 1750. After the organ in Kiedrich , which has been given less historical substance, the Worfelder organ is the second oldest in Hesse and one of the oldest in Germany.

In addition to the musical angel that adorns the later added pipe case on the left, the mechanism of the stop slides, which are vertically shifted and hooked in iron guides, is remarkable. A pulling device with the help of two leather straps enables a mechanical wind supply . The original mid-range tuning has been retained despite the two changes of location. The keyboard of the bass octave with the short octave was changed in 1681 by dividing the upper keys into a "broken short octave": D / F sharp and E / G sharp have shared an upper key ever since.

In terms of sound, the organ is characterized by powerful colors and, despite the small number of registers, by a great sound intensity.

Disposition

I Manual CDE – c 3
Principal 4 ′
Dumped 8th'
Pointed flute 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture (Sesquialtera) II
Tremulant
Remarks
  1. ↑ Composition of Sesquialtera II 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
    C: 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ + 4 ⁄ 5 ′
    c 1 : 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 4 ⁄ 5 ′
    f 1 : 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
    f sharp 2 : 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′ + 3 1 ⁄ 5  ′

Technical specifications

  • 6 registers
  • 329 pipes
  • Action :
    • Tone action: mechanical
    • Stop action: mechanical
  • Wind supply:
    • 2 multi-fold bellows in the lower housing
    • Manual pulling device
  • Mood :
    • Tuning pitch: a 1 = 479 Hz (about 3 ⁄ 4 tone above normal)
    • Mid-tone tuning ( 1 ⁄ 4 point)

gallery

  • View of the organ from the gallery

  • Opened angel box

  • Exposed wave board

  • Register pulls on the right

See also

literature

  • Hans Martin Balz : Divine Music. Organs in Germany (=  230th publication by the Society of Organ Friends ). Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 3-8062-2062-X , p. 128 f .
  • Hans Martin Balz: organs and organ builder in the area of ​​the former Hessian province of Starkenburg. A contribution to the history of organ building (=  studies on Hessian music history . Volume 3 ). Bärenreiter second-hand bookshop, Kassel 1969.
  • Hans Martin Balz, Reinhardt Menger: Old organs in Hessen and Nassau (=  publication of the Society of Organ Friends . Volume 72 ). Merseburger, Kassel 1979, ISBN 3-87537-169-0 .
  • Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 1: Mainz and suburbs - Rheinhessen - Worms and suburbs (=  contributions to the music history of the Middle Rhine . Volume 6 ). Schott, Mainz 1967, ISBN 978-3-7957-1306-5 .
  • Günter Lade (Ed.): 40 years of organ building Jürgen Ahrend 1954–1994 . Self-published, Leer-Loga 1994.

Recordings / sound carriers

  • Hans Martin Balz: Concert on Reformation Day on the former Darmstadt palace organ from 1624 in the Ev. Worfelden Church . 2010. Studio 12 GmbH (works by Anonymus, A. de Cabezon, HL Hassler, J. Cabanilles, M. Weckmann, J. Pachelbel, D. Buxtehude, JS Bach, GB Pergolesi, SS Wesley).
  • Organs in Hessen from four centuries . Bauer Studios SACD 9088-3 (Reinhardt Menger in Worfelden, Hatzfeld, Nieder-Moos, Biebesheim and Frankfurt am Main / Cantate Domino)

Web links

Commons : Orgeln in Worfelden  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 1: Mainz and suburbs - Rheinhessen - Worms and suburbs (= contributions to the music history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 6). Schott, Mainz 1967, ISBN 978-3-7957-1306-5 , p. 29, gives 1628 as the year of the move.
  2. ↑ a b c d Martin Balz: Divine Music. Organs in Germany (=  230th publication by the Society of Organ Friends ). Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 3-8062-2062-X , p. 128 .
  3. ^ Hans Martin Balz, Reinhardt Menger: Old organs in Hesse and Nassau (=  publication of the Society of Organ Friends . Volume 72 ). 2nd Edition. Merseburger, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-87537-169-0 , p. 178 .
  4. ↑ a b Günter Lade (Ed.): 40 years of organ building Jürgen Ahrend 1954–1994 . Self-published, Leer-Loga 1994, p. 54.
  5. ↑ a b Homepage of the Worfelder Church: Historical Knauth organ , seen January 1, 2012.

Coordinates: 49 ° 54 ′ 10.7 "  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 41.6"  E