Organ of the Westerhuser Church

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Organ of the Westerhuser Church
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General
place Westerhuser Church
Organ builder Jost Sieburg
Construction year 1642/43
Last renovation / restoration 1955 by Ahrend & Brunzema
epoch Early baroque
Organ landscape Ostfriesland
Technical specifications
Number of registers 7th
Number of rows of pipes 10
Number of manuals 1

The organ of the Westerhuser church was built by Jost Sieburg in 1642–1643 using much older material and is the only work that has been preserved in its original form. The valuable instrument in the East Frisian Westerhusen has seven registers on a manual and an attached pedal .

Building history

Around 1500 the church already had a Gothic organ, as Sieburg took over parts of this previous instrument. Between 1642 and 1643 Jost Sieburg built a new instrument on a gallery in the east, reusing a large part of the old pipework. This instrument was painted and gilded in 1647.

In 1756/1757 the organ was repaired by Cornelius Geerds Wallies ( Leer ) and in 1765/1785 Dirk Lohman ( Emden ) carried out further repairs. In 1795 Johann Friedrich Wenthin (Emden) repaired the instrument, in 1852 his son Joachim Wenthin . In 1875 the organ was painted white and the inscriptions also disappeared. At the bottom right read: “Anno 1643, the 24th Martii, do Dominus Folptetus Bonnaeus Hayunga Preacher and Onne Tjarks and Peter Schinckel Kerkvoogden were, is the organ of meester Joest Siborgh made”. The action was renewed before 1900. In the treble, the keyboard range was expanded to c 3 , with the missing pipes being added on a separate drawer .

Ahrend & Brunzema carried out a restoration in 1955, which caused a sensation and was a model. The old intonation was retained, the pipe material was not interfered with and the original mean-tone tuning was restored. Parts that were lost or replaced at a later date, such as the old wind chest, action, keyboard and bellows , were carefully reconstructed and later changes reversed. A choir of the mixture was added from old material. Otherwise all registers have been preserved. Two bell wreaths for the cymbal stars were made. The old color version of blue, red, black and gold was restored so that the inscriptions with biblical texts from Eph 5,19b  LUT (above) and Ps 150,4  LUT (middle) can be read again.

particularities

Sieburg has taken over parts of a previous Gothic organ. This can be seen from the outside of the case, the lower part of which still has the old tunnel profiles, similar to those found in the late Gothic Rysum organ . The structure of the pipe fields reflects the "Hamburger Prospect ". The wide gothic principal registers , which contain a lot of lead , were cut open and soldered back in a narrower measure . As a result, the labia are relatively wide. Despite its limited disposition, the organ has a powerful and intense, sometimes almost cutting sound. The 4-foot principal sounds powerful and rich in overtones in the prospectus. The brass-like trumpet with its open throats and short beakers is typical of the Renaissance style . It served as a model for the reconstruction of the organ in Neuringe (1981–1984) by the Alfred Führer company . Along with the organ in Uttum , it is one of the oldest trumpet registers. The mixture gives the plenary a brilliant sound, which is enhanced by the pure thirds . Obviously, the instrument served to accompany the congregation singing, which was introduced shortly before , and which remained unaccompanied until 1640. It was not until 1640 that the organ was used for song accompaniment in East Friesland (partly against resistance). The valuable instrument in Westerhusen combines elements from Gothic, Renaissance and early Baroque and fuses them into a tonal unit. The fact that almost the entire stock of pipes has remained unchanged through the centuries is almost without parallel.

Disposition since 1643

I main work C – c 3
Principal 4 ′
Dumped 8th'
Quintadena 8th'
Octave 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′
Mixture IV
Trumpet 8th'
Pedal C-e
attached
  • Housing and wing doors (original)
  • Wind chest (reconstructed)
  • Magazine bellows (reconstructed)
  • Cimbelstern (bell wreaths reconstructed)
Remarks
  1. ↑ a b c Alt, reworked from a Gothic organ.
  2. ↑ Alt, von Sieburg.
  3. ↑ Old, from a Gothic organ; wide bore, conical at the top.
  4. ↑ Alt, von Sieburg; 4. Choir reconstructed from old material in 1955.
  5. ↑ Alto, in the bass by Sieburg, older in the treble; with open throats and short cups.

Technical specifications

  • Seven registers
  • Action :
    • Tone action: mechanical
    • Stop action: mechanical
  • Wind pressure: 76 mm water column
  • Mood :
    • Height approx. A semitone over a 1 = 440 Hz
    • Mid-tone mood

literature

  • Rolf Hallensleben: The restoration of the early baroque organ in Westerhusen . In: Music and Church . Volume 26, No. 3 , 1956, pp. 124-126 .
  • Ralph Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-929902-62-1 .
  • Walter Kaufmann : The organs of East Frisia . East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 1968.
  • 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

  • Harald Vogel: Organ country East Friesland . 1989, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, HM 939-2, CD (organs in Norden, Uttum, Rysum, Westerhusen, Marienhafe, Weener. Works by D. Buxtehude, C. Goudimel, Anonymus, JP Sweelinck, S. Scheidt, C. Paumann, A. Schlick, A. Ileborgh, P. Hofhaimer, H. Isaac, HL Hassler, G. Böhm, JS Bach).
  • Antoine Bouchard: Les plus belles orgues . 1994, Analekta Classics, AN 28216-7, 2 CD (organs in Rysum, Osteel, Steinkirchen, Mittelkirchen, Ganderkesee, Westerhusen, Dedesdorf. Works by Paumann, Susato, Sweelinck, Scheidemann, Bach and others).
  • Organ landscapes. Episode 4: A musical journey to eight organs in the Ostfriesland region (part 1) . 2013, NOMINE eV, LC 18240 (Thiemo Janssen in Rysum, Osteel, Westerhusen, Marienhafe, Dornum and Agnes Luchterhandt in Uttum, Pilsum, north).
  • Wind song. Organs, wind and relatives: woe, windswept, woe ... Krumhorn organ sounds. 2012, Verlag der Ostfriesische Landschaft (Winfried Dahlke in Rysum, Uttum, Westerhusen and Pilsum with works by Ghizeghem, Lassus, Palestrina, Böddecker and others)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Schild: Memorial organs. Documentation of the restoration by Organ Builders Guide 1974–1991 . tape 2 . Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2005, ISBN 978-3-7959-0862-1 , p. 725 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 24 '44.8 "  N , 7 ° 10' 49.1"  E