Organ of the castle church in Lahm (Itzgrund)
Organ of the castle church in Lahm (Itzgrund) | |
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General | |
place | Castle church in Lahm / Itzgrund |
Organ builder | Heinrich Gottlieb Herbst |
Construction year | 1732 |
epoch | Baroque |
Organ landscape | Central Germany |
Technical specifications | |
Number of registers | 29 |
Number of rows of pipes | 39 |
Number of manuals | 2 |
Wind chest | mechanical slider chests |
Tone tract | mechanically |
Register action | mechanically |
Number of 32 'registers | 1 |
The organ of the Castle Church in Lahm was 1728-1732 by Heinrich Gottlieb fall from the central German Halberstadt in Franconia Lahm in the castle church built. Since the baroque substance was essentially preserved, it is a valuable testimony to central German organ building in the 18th century. The organ has two manuals and a pedal as well as 29 sounding registers .
Building history
As part of the construction of the castle church from 1728–1732, the patron saint Adam Heinrich Gottlob von Lichtenstein had a representative organ built by Heinrich Gottlieb Herbst, son of Heinrich Herbst the Younger. Due to family ties to Erxleben Castle near Haldensleben , the castle belonged to the family of his first wife Anna Ursula Catharina von Alvensleben , Lichtenstein became aware of Herbst. The solemn organ consecration took place at the church inauguration on May 4th, 1732, the Jubilate Sunday.
It is unclear whether there was an influence of Johann Sebastian Bach through his nephew Johann Lorenz Bach on the disposition . He was his pupil in Weimar from 1715 to 1717 and schoolmaster, cantor and organist of the castle church for over half a century (1718–1773).
A major repair was carried out in 1842 by the Neustadt organ builder Hofmann for 290 guilders . Three restorations were carried out in the 20th century. In 1934, after more than 200 years, the Steinmeyer ( Oettingen ) company carried out the first general overhaul of the instrument and very carefully made the organ fully functional again. The pedal trombone was made to sound for the first time and the mood was slightly increased. 1962 followed work by Paul Ott ( Göttingen ). In 1979 the organ was dismantled during construction work in the church. The last restoration was carried out in 1983 by Hoffmann und Schindler ( Ostheim vor der Rhön ). Currently (as of 2011) the organ is being serviced by the Bamberg organ builder Thomas Eichfelder.
On September 11, 2011, the First German Organ Day took place on the autumn organ in the Lahm Castle Church.
Disposition since 1732
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- Pairing : II / I.
- 2 cymbal stars (in the two large pedal towers)
- Speed / slow tremulant .
- Calcant bell
Technical specifications
- 29 registers
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Action :
- Tone action: mechanical
- Stop action: mechanical
- Wind supply:
- Wind pressure: 68 mm water column
brochure
The organ prospectus consists of three separate cases. In the middle is the main prospectus and to the side the pedal brochures in the shape of a tower, attached according to the North German model. The main prospectus consists of five parts and has a straight floor plan under a swaying, curved upper cornice. The Lichtenstein coat of arms is affixed to the top center. The pedal towers each consist of two rectangular fields of different heights. The larger towers each adorn a Zimbelstern and large vases as an attachment. The carving is fine tendril work with acanthus leaves and applied ribbon work that carries a palmette .
The play cupboard in the lower case of the main prospectus houses two black manual keyboards and 34 register pulls, each with three vertical rows, each with five, seven, and five pulls one above the other.
literature
- Martin Balz: Divine Music. Organs in Germany . (= 230th publication of the GdO ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 3-8062-2062-X , p. 170 f.
- Johannes G. Mehl: The baroque organ in Lahm / Itzgrund. In: Congress Report. Society for Music Research. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1953, pp. 78–82.
- Gottfried Löblein: 250 years of Lahm Castle Church and its autumn organ. Manuscript 1982, 2nd edition 1983, Lahm im Itzgrund (parish office).
- Jürgen-Peter Schindler: The autumn organ of the castle church in Lahm. In: Ars Organi . Vol. 33, 1985, pp. 112-121.
Web links
- Autumn organ with history, disposition, pictures and current calendar (concerts and master classes)
- Greifenberg Institute for Musical Instrument Studies: Lahm im Itzgrund, Schloßkirche
- Organ Databank: Organ in Lahm (Itzgrund)
- Homepage of the parish Lahm with information about the Lahmer concerts https://www.herbstorgel.itzgrund-evangelisch.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Old Orgeln im Coburger Land, Part IV. Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation 1980, p. 130 f
- ↑ Parishes
- ↑ This assumption was fed by Bach's preference for certain registers that can be found in the Herbst organ, for example the quintadena 16 ′, the viola da gamba 8 ′, the 32 ′ in the pedal and the pedal trombone. See on Bach's organ report by Werner Neumann, Hans-Joachim Schulze (ed.): Documents by Johann Sebastian Bach . Bärenreiter, Kassel [et al.] 1963, pp. 152-174 (Bach documents 1).
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 5.2 ″ N , 10 ° 52 ′ 0.2 ″ E