Organ of the Warnfried Church (Osteel)

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Organ of the Warnfried Church (Osteel)
Osteel Organ.jpg
General
place Warnfried Church (Osteel)
Organ builder Edo Evers
Construction year 1619
Last renovation / restoration 1995 by Jürgen Ahrend
epoch Renaissance
Organ landscape Ostfriesland
Technical specifications
Number of registers 13
Number of rows of pipes 16
Number of manuals 2

The organ of the Warnfried Church (Osteel) is one of the best preserved Renaissance organs in northern Germany. In 1619 it was built by Edo Evers using older pipe material and is almost completely preserved. The important instrument has 13 registers , two manuals and an attached pedal .

Building history

The history of the organ of the Warnfried Church in Osteel begins with the work of the organ builder Edo Evers on the organ of the Ludgerikirche Norden (1616–1618). When a large organ was built there, Evers integrated stops from the previous organ by Andreas de Mare (1566–1567). Evers used parts of the old case and other stops that were left over from the old Norder organ for his new building in Osteel on the north side of the transept . Fortunately, when the church roof and the vault of the nave collapsed in 1686 in a storm , the organ was fortunately preserved.

Typical external characteristics of the late Renaissance style is the classic structure with the polygonal bass tower in the middle and the two pointed towers on the side, whose tenor pipes point to the left and right. The treble pipes are arranged in four flat fields in between. The rich decorations on the middle prospect pipe in each tower are also typical. All of this can also be found in the organ in Stellichte (1610), where the original case and the prospect pipes by Andreas de Mare are still preserved in the St. Georg Christophorus Jodokus Church . Characteristic of the Renaissance style are the type of veils over the front pipes, the crowns on the pipe towers and the two continuous banners on which, in Latin, the biblical text from Ps 150.4  LUT and below Lk 2.14  LUT can be read is.

Around 1761, Johann Adam Berner and his father-in-law Johann Friedrich Constabel rebuilt the organ, expanding the range of the keyboards of the Renaissance instrument from the original FGA-g 2 a 2 to the more modern CD-c 3 and the six missing pipes in each Bass made of wood and four added in the treble made of metal. This succeeded in a sonically convincing way, as old pipe material was skillfully reworked. The pointed flute in the breastwork was also artfully made using old materials. At the same time, the action and wind chests had to be rebuilt or renewed to accommodate the expansion. In 1808 Gerhard Janssen Schmid ( Leer ) repaired the organ. When the transept and the choir were torn down and the nave shortened in 1830 , Johann Gottfried Rohlfs ( Esens ) placed the organ on the east gallery and made the double doors smaller because they seemed too heavy after the supports had been removed. In addition, the previously narrower lower case has been brought to the width of the upper case. An attached pedal complemented the organ without a pedal until then, the shelf had to give way to a crumhorn, the four flat fields in the prospectus were removed in favor of continuous wooden dummy pipes and an equal temperature was applied.

The organ was moved again in 1890 by Johann Diepenbrock ( north ), on the west gallery. Now the old wedge bellows have been replaced by a magazine bellows. The organ escaped the issue of prospectus pipes in 1917 for armament purposes, which did not even stop at Arp Schnitger's instruments , as the pipes did not contain enough tin. When P. Furtwängler & Hammer described the condition of the instrument as irreparable in a report from the same year, the instrument threatened to be removed . In the course of the emerging organ movement , a new report by Christhard Mahrenholz (1928) came to the opposite conclusion, so that in 1932 the organ was placed under a preservation order. In connection with a repair by Max Maucher (Emden) (1929–1930) the intonation was changed significantly. Even the restoration by Alfred Führer (1957–1958) restored some of it, but did not interfere adequately with the sound of the instrument.

From 1994–1995 Jürgen Ahrend could be won over for a comprehensive restoration , who completely restored the original optical and sound image of the organ. Ahrend ensured the necessary stability of the work and reconstructed the wing doors. The front, which had been distorted in the 19th century, was restored and the pipework was restored to its old intonation. Since almost all of the old registers were still there, only the lost mixture had to be reconstructed. The Krummhorn was retained. Finally, the wedge bellows and the gaming table system were also reconstructed.

Disposition since 1830

I main work CD – c 3
Principal 8th' E.
Quintadena 16 ′ 0 E.
Quintadena 8th' E / B
Octave 4 ′ E.
Pointed flute 4 ′ E.
Fifth 3 ′ E.
Octave 2 ′ E.
Mixture IV A.
Trumpet B / D 0 8th' E / B
II breastwork CD – c 3
Hollow flute 4 ′ 0 E.
Pointed flute 2 ′ E / B
Sif flute 1' E.
Krummhorn 0 8th' R.
E = Edo Evers (1619)
B = Johann Adam Berner (1761)
R = Johann Gottfried Rohlfs (1830)
A = Jürgen Ahrend (1994/95)

Remarks

  1. ↑ C-G sharp made of wood, He 1 in the prospectus; Pointed labia , some beards, some hammered.
  2. ↑ CB made of oak, the rest of hammered, heavily leaded metal with hats.
  3. ↑ C-F sharp made of oak, rest as Quintadena 16 ′, large beards.
  4. ↑ CE made of wood, partly hammered.
  5. ↑ Ab c conical.
  6. ↑ a b Cylindrical open, without beards.
  7. ↑ Reconstructed.
  8. ↑ C-Fis beaker made of wood, lead-lined brass throats up to d, rest open; unleathered.
  9. ↑ Covered with hats and great beards; top octave open.
  10. ↑ Conically open, pointed labia without beards.
  11. ↑ Cylindrical open, very wide length .
  12. ↑ Double cone shape with long cups, open beak throats, slightly conical.

Technical specifications

  • 13 registers
  • Wind supply:
    • 3 wedge bellows (A)
    • 70 mm water column wind pressure
  • Action :
    • Tone action: mechanical
    • Stop action: mechanical
  • Mood :

literature

  • Irmi Hartmann: Organ birthday is particularly celebrated . In: Ostfriesland Magazin 6/2019, SKN Druck und Verlag, Norden 2019, p. 54 f.
  • Walter Kaufmann : The organs of East Frisia . East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 1968.
  • Uda von der Nahmer: Wind song. Organs, wind and relatives . Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-940601-03-2 .
  • Ralph Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden . Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-929902-62-1 .
  • Ibo Ortgies : The practice of organ tuning in northern Germany in the 17th and 18th centuries and its relationship to contemporary music practice . Göteborgs universitet, Göteborg 2007 ( gbv.de [PDF; 5.4 MB ] First edition: 2004).
  • Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 .
  • Harald Vogel, Reinhard Ruge, Robert Noah, Martin Stromann: Organ landscape Ostfriesland . 2nd Edition. Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 1997, ISBN 3-928327-19-4 .

Recordings / sound carriers

  • Organ landscapes. Episode 4: A musical journey to eight organs in the Ostfriesland region (part 1) . 2013, NOMINE e. V., LC 18240 (Thiemo Janssen in Rysum, Osteel, Westerhusen, Marienhafe, Dornum and Agnes Luchterhandt in Uttum, Pilsum, north).
  • Organs in East Frisia . Vol. 1. 1996. Organeum, OC-09601, CD (Harald Vogel in Osteel, Buttforde, Neermoor, Veenhusen, Groothusen).
  • Heronymus Praetorius: Vespers for St. Michael's Day . 1999. CPO, 999649-2, CD (Jörg Jacobi and Weser-Renaissance).
  • Jacob Praetorius: Motets & Organ Works . 1996. CPO, 999215-2, CD (Harald Vogel and Weser-Renaissance).
  • Les plus belles orgues . 1994. Analekta Classics, AN 28216-7, 2 CD (Antoine Bouchard in Rysum, Osteel, Steinkirchen, Mittelkirchen, Ganderkesee, Westerhusen, Dedesdorf. Works by Paumann, Susato, Sweelinck, Scheidemann, Bach and others).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kaufmann: The organs of East Frisia . 1968, p. 196: “The organ work has been used up in all its parts and repairs of any kind are no longer possible. - Procurement of a new organ is an unavoidable necessity. "

Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '58.7 "  N , 7 ° 15' 51"  E