Organ of St. Laurentius (Dedesdorf)

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Organ of St. Laurentius (Dedesdorf)
Dedesdorf organ.jpg
General
alternative name Schnitger organ
place St. Laurentius (Dedesdorf)
Organ builder Arp Schnitger
Construction year 1697-1698
Last renovation / restoration 1998–1999 Heiko Lorenz
epoch Baroque
Organ landscape Oldenburg
Technical specifications
Number of registers 18th
Number of rows of pipes 22nd
Number of manuals 2
Tone tract Mechanically
Register action Mechanically

The organ of St. Laurentius in Dedesdorf-Eidewarden , a place in the unitary community of Loxstedt ( Lower Saxony ) near Bremerhaven, was built in 1698 by Arp Schnitger . The two manual work originally contained twelve registers and now has 18 registers after the addition of a pedal work. The manual housing and ten registers including windchest and keyboards are original. A special feature is the twin drawer, which Schnitger built several times, but only survived in Dedesdorf and Moreira (Portugal).

Building history

New building by Schnitger in 1697/1698

The contract between the parish and Schnitger was signed by both sides on August 15, 1697. The agreed cost was 320 thalers, of which the master received 120 thalers as a deposit. In contrast to many other newly built organs, Schnitger did not use any older material in Dedesdorf, as he built the first organ for St. Laurentius . The congregation paid for the collection of the instrument and for board and lodging for Schnitger and his journeymen, who lived in the pastorate over the summer. When the consistory reprimanded the high consumption of beer and brandy, Pastor Petrus Dreas replied: "The organ maker is a reputable man, at the same time the journeymen were fine, handsome people, who weren't allowed to present badly booze beer." Organ for the first time in a service.

The structure of the prospectus is similar to Schnitger's instrument in Moreira (Maia) near Porto (Portugal), but has a bass octave with F sharp and G sharp, while the Portuguese instrument has a short octave . The manual is divided into eight registers on the lower manual and four on the upper manual. This corresponds to the baroque orchestral division into ripieno and concertino . The four registers of the upper manual are on the front part of the wind chest with the valves above the upper manual keyboard. The registers of the lower manual with mixture and trumpet, which are each divided , are located behind and are played by the rear valves.

The prospectus has the classic five-part division with a polygonal central tower and two flanking pointed towers, all three of which are equipped with nine pipes each. The towers are connected by two-storey flat fields with 13 pipes each and a total of 52 pipes, 20 of which are ringing. The case is decorated on both sides with new, carved acanthus work with volutes , which is located as the upper and lower end of all pipe fields and the case structures.

Schnitger used twin shops, for example, in his works in Sittensen (1694/1695), Oldenbrok (1697), Strückhausen (1697) and Rastede (1709), all of which are based on a Principal 4 ′. The pedal was originally just attached.

Extensions

In the years 1742 to 1745 Eilert Köhler (Oldenburg) carried out repairs and added an independent pedal unit with six voices, which he set up behind the scenes. The bellows was moved to the attic to make room for the new pedal mechanism. Furthermore, Köhler replaced the Siffloit 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′ with a Gemshorn 2 ′ and created a well-tempered mood .

A small repair was carried out in 1775 by Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer , who was probably also responsible for the 1789 repair.

Restorations

The first renovation was carried out in 1934 by Alfred Führer , who, during restoration work, replaced the original tin pipes delivered in 1917 with new prospect pipes and renewed some action parts . In 1978 a further partial restoration was carried out by the organ workshop in Führer. In 1998/1999 a thorough restoration was carried out by Heiko Lorenz (Führer company) with the advice of Harald Vogel . Finally, a pedal coupler was created based on the traces of the attached pedal by Schnitger.

The instrument was brought back to its condition in 1745 and all parts installed later were replaced by original reconstructions, including the technical system and the prospect pipes made of 98% tin. The sub-bass by Gerhard Janssen Schmid (1838) was retained. The financing was achieved with the help of the "Association for the Restoration of the Dedesdorf Organ". Lorenz received the Arp Schnitger Prize in 2002 for the successful restoration.

Disposition since 1999

I Under-Clavier CDE – c 3
Quintads 8th' S.
Dumped 4 ′ S.
Quinta 3 ′ S.
Floit 2 ′ S.
Gemshorn 2 ′ K
Sesquialter II 2 ⁄ 3 ′ S.
Mixture IV B / D 1 ⁄ 2 ′ S.
Trumpet B / D 8th' S.
II Upper Clavier CDE – c 3
Dumped 8th' S.
Principal 4 ′ FL
Octav 2 ′ S.
Quinta 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′ S.
CDE – d pedal 1
Sub-bass 16 ′ Schm
Octave 8th' K
Octave 4 ′ K
trombone 16 ′ K
Trumpet 8th' K
Trumpet 4 ′ K
Remarks
S = Schnitger (1698)
K = Koehler (1745)
Schm = Schmid (1838)
FL = Führer (Lorenz) (1999)

Technical specifications

  • 18 stops, 22 rows of pipes.
  • Wind supply :
    • Bellows: 3 shut-off valves, 3 wedge bellows (guide)
    • Wind pressure: 70 mm water column
  • Wind chests : twin chests (Schnitger)
  • Action:
    • Keyboards: manuals (Schnitger), pedal (guide)
    • Tone action: mechanical
    • Stop action: mechanical
  • Mood :
    • Well-tempered mood according to Bach / Kellner (1/5 comma)
    • Pitch about half a tone above normal: a 1 = 457 Hz

literature

  • Cornelius H. Edskes , Harald Vogel : Arp Schnitger and his work (=  241st publication by the Society of Organ Friends ). 2nd Edition. Hauschild, Bremen 2013, ISBN 978-3-89757-525-7 , pp. 72 f, 155 .
  • Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 , p. 133-135 .
  • Fritz Schild: Organ atlas of the historical and modern organs of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg . Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2008, ISBN 3-7959-0894-9 , pp. 79 f .
  • Harald Vogel, Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 , p. 184 f .
  • Harald Vogel: Dedesdorf, an unnoticed model of north German organ building. In: Ars Organi . 2000/4, pp. 213-216 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelius H. Edskes, Harald Vogel: Arp Schnitger and His Work . Hauschild, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-95494-092-9 , pp. 182 .
  2. ^ Harald Vogel: Organs in Lower Saxony. 1997, p. 184.
  3. ↑ Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, p. 133.
  4. ↑ a b c Fock: Arp Schnitger and his school. 1974, p. 134.
  5. ↑ a b Edskes, Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work. 2nd edition 2013, p. 155.
  6. ^ Harald Vogel: Organs in Lower Saxony. 1997, p. 185.
  7. ↑ Edskes, Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work. 2nd edition 2013, p. 72.
  8. ↑ a b Harald Vogel: Dedesdorf, an unnoticed model of north German organ building. In: Ars Organi . 2000/4, pp. 213-216 ( online ), accessed on March 2, 2018.
  9. ↑ Sign: Organ atlas of historical and modern organs. 2008, p. 80.
  10. ↑ Norbert Czyz: It should be soft, strong and very vocal. In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung of December 24, 2013, p. 35.

Coordinates: 53 ° 26 ′ 40.7 "  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 5.4"  E