Organ of the town church (Waltershausen)

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Organ of the town church (Waltershausen)
Waltershausen City Church To God's Help 01.JPG
General
place City Church (Waltershausen)
Organ builder Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost u. a.
Construction year 1724-1755
Last renovation / restoration 1995–1998, organ building Waltershausen
epoch Baroque
Organ landscape Thuringia
Technical specifications
Number of pipes 2806
Number of registers 47
Number of rows of pipes 60
Number of manuals 3
Tone tract Mechanically
Register action Mechanically
Number of 32 'registers 1
Trost organ in Waltershausen

The organ of the town church Waltershausen by Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost is an outstanding example of the Thuringian organ building of the 18th century. With 47 registers , three manuals and a pedal , it is the largest baroque organ in Thuringia.

Building history

On May 12, 1722, an organ was commissioned from Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost for the almost completed new church building . On February 8, 1722, he submitted an offer for an organ with two manuals and 35 registers. Preparatory work on the organ began two years later, after a new contract was signed on April 4, 1724 and the organ loft was lowered that autumn. Trost left Waltershausen in 1730 without having completed the organ; at this point in time six registers had not yet been completed. Due to the city's financial difficulties in building the organ from 1728 onwards, as well as the lack of consideration for organ building, it seems that Trost was ultimately unable to complete the organ. However, due to his willingness to experiment and his uneconomical way of working, he probably played no small part in the messed up situation. The mayor Marci wrote about the "dissolute organ maker consolation":

"Done before and after,
has some
and us with this whole
Church construction, brought about a lot of suffering and misfortune.
The organ maker is called consolation,
but he gives us bad consolation
Oh, we are redeemed from consolation. "

In 1755 the organ was completed by various organ builders, probably mainly by Johann Heinrich Puppert.

In the years 1853 to 1855 a renovation and repairs were carried out by Michael Hesse, who raised the mood by cutting off the pipes. Hugo Böhm installed a new blower system in 1896. The entire wind system was renewed in 1958/1959 and the Trost sewer system was abandoned. The Eule company undertook an exchange of registers in favor of neo-baroque voices.

After signing a contract in 1993 with Orgelbau Waltershausen GmbH for a complete restoration, this was carried out between 1995 and 1998 and the organ returned to its original condition.

particularities

The disposition with many eight-footed and closely mensored registers shows that it is a typical Central German instrument of the 18th century. The sound is not very loud, but warm and differentiated. On the other hand, it has a number of special features, such as the three-storey prospectus structure, the violin principal 4 ' in the prospectus above the console with its own valve box and the numerous transmissions . Today around 70% of the original substance is still present on pipes.

Disposition since 1998 (= 1730/1755)

I breastwork C – c 3
1. Dumped 8th'
2. Night horn 8th'
3. Principal 4 ′
4th Flute douce 4 ′
5. Night horn 4 ′
6th Gemshorn 4 ′
7th Spitz Qvinta 3 ′
8th. Nassad-Qvinta 3 ′
9. Octava 2 ′
10. Sesqvialtera II
11. Mixtura IV
12. Skin bous 8th'
II main work C – c 3
13. Portun pedestal 16 ′
14th Great Qvintadena 16 ′
15th Principal 8th'
16. Gemshorn 8th'
17th Viol d'Gambe 8th'
18th Portun 8th'
19th Qvintadena 8th'
20th Unda maris 8th'
21st Octava 4 ′
22nd Salcional 4 ′
23. Röhr-Flöta 4 ′
24. Celinder-Qvinta 3 ′
25th Super Octava 2 ′
26th Sesqvialtera II
27. Mixtura VI-VIII
28. bassoon 16 ′
29 Trompetta 8th'
III Upper structure C – c 3
30th Flute dupla *) 8th'
31. Vagarely 8th'
32. Flute travers 8th'
33. Darling Principal 4 ′
34. Pointed flute 4 ′
35. Gedackt Qvinta 3 ′
36. Forest flute 2 ′
37. Hollow flute 8th'
38. Vox humana 8th'
39. Violin principal 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – d 1
40. Great Principal 16 ′
41. Sub-bass 16 ′
42. Violon bass 16 ′
43. Octave bass 8th'
44. Celinder-Qvinta 6 ′
45. Trombone bass 32 ′
46. Trombone bass 16 ′
47. Trumpet bass 8th'
Qvintadenen-Bass (= No. 19) 16 ′
Viol d'Gamben-Bass (= No. 17) 8th'
Portun bass (= No. 18) 8th'
Super Octava (= No. 21) 4 ′
Tube flute bass (= No. 23) 4 ′
Mixtur-Bass VI (= No. 27)
Remarks
  1. ↑ a b c d e f 1996–1998 reconstructed.
  2. ↑ Partly reconstructed.
  3. ↑ funnel-shaped.
  4. ↑ Partly reconstructed.
  5. ↑ Double: a conical open row made of wood, a cylindrical covered row made of metal.
  6. ↑ Stands on its own wind chest, which is connected to the upper work with a hook coupling.
  7. ↑ All transmissions only up to c 1 .
Mixtura VIII
C – h: 2 ′ + 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1' + 4 ⁄ 5 ′ + 2 ⁄ 3 ′ + 1 ⁄ 2 ′
c 1 –h 1 : 4 ′ + 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 2 ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ + 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1' + 4 ⁄ 5 ′ + 2 ⁄ 3 ′
From c 2 : 8th' + 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′ + 4 ′ + 3 1 ⁄ 5  ′ + 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 2 ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ + 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′.
Mixtura IV
C – h: 2 ′ + 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1' + 4 ⁄ 5 ′
c 1 –h 1 : 2 ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ + 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1'
From c 2 : 4 ′ + 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 2 ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′.

Technical specifications

  • 47 sounding registers
  • Total number of pipes: 2806
    • Prospect pipes: 318
    • Metal pipes: 2071 (approx. 75%)
    • Wooden pipes: 458
    • Reeds: 277 (approx. 10%)
    • Number of original pipes: 1981, 40 stops (approx. 70%)
  • Organ size:
    • Height of the organ: 8.3 m
    • Width: 8.8 m
    • Depth (without pedal towers): 2.2 m
  • Wind supply :
    • Four clamping bellows (wedge bellows)
    • Bellows treadmill
    • Total length of all wind tunnels: 159 m
    • Wind pressure: 69 mm water column
  • Action :
    • Sound treatment: mechanical
    • Stop action: mechanical
  • Mood :

literature

  • Martin Balz: Divine Music. Organs in Germany . Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 3-8062-2062-X , p. 96 f . (230th publication of the Society of Organ Friends).
  • Felix Friedrich: The organ builder Heinrich Gottfried Trost. Life - work - performance . German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-370-00287-6 .
  • Theophil Heinke (ed.): The consolation organ and city church "Zur Gotteshilfe" Waltershausen . Self-published, Waltershausen 1998.

Web links

Commons : Organ of the Stadtkirche Waltershausen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinke (Ed.): The Trost Organ . 1998, p. 23.
  2. ↑ Balz: Divine Music. 2008, p. 96.
  3. ↑ According to the chronicle by C. Polack (1854), see Heinke (Hrsg.): Die Trost-Orgel. 1998, p. 23.
  4. ↑ Heinke (Ed.): The Trost Organ . 1998, p. 100.

Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 53 ″  N , 10 ° 33 ′ 21 ″  E