Organ building Böttner

Orgelbau Böttner is a German organ building company that has its workshop in Frankenberg , Hesse , and built numerous new organs, especially in Northern Hesse .

history

Wolfgang Böttner (born July 18, 1925 in Kronenberg - Sudberg ) learned organ building from Kamp in Aachen. He then worked from 1951 to 1957 as a journeyman at Euler in Hofgeismar and deepened his skills and knowledge from 1958 to 1960 at Kruse in Lohne (Oldenburg) . He passed his master craftsman examination in 1959. In 1960 he founded his own company in Frankenberg. Alongside other employees, his sons Stephan Böttner (* 1956 in Hofgeismar) and Christoph Böttner (* 1960 in Lohne) worked in the workshop. Stephan Böttner passed the master craftsman examination in Kassel in 1986. 120 new organs were built by 1990.

Christoph Böttner completed a preparatory course for the master craftsman's examination in Ludwigsburg in 1987/1988 . In 1991 he passed the master's examination in Kassel and built his masterpiece (II / P / 14) for the Protestant church in Wunderthausen . He has been running the company since 1995. In addition to maintenance work, restorations are increasingly being carried out.

List of works (selection)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1961	Rengershausen	St. Elisabeth		II / P	11	Wolfgang Böttner's first new building
1964	Rengershausen	Ev. church		II / P	12	New building by Wolfgang Böttner
1964	Bremen	St. Boniface		II / P	21st	New building by Wolfgang Böttner
1966	Cappel (Marburg)	St. Martin		II / P	18th	New building by Wolfgang Böttner
1966	Allendorf (Lumda)	Zion Church		II / P	14th	New building by Wolfgang Böttner
1966	Wingershausen	Ev. church		I / P	9	New construction by Wolfgang Böttner including older parts of the previous organ by Adam Karl Bernhard (1872)
1967	Bremen	St. Godehard		II / P	15th
1967	Fronhausen	Ev. church		II / P	14th	New building by Wolfgang Böttner
1968	Cölbe	Ev. church		II / P	13	New building by Wolfgang Böttner
1968	Laisa	Ev. church		I / P	9	behind the prospectus by Gabriel Irle (1761/64) including three old registers
1969	Allendorf (Eder)	Ev. church		I / P
1969	Stadtallendorf	Herrenwaldkirche		II / P	15th	Church dedicated on December 31, 2013, organ was offered for sale.
around 1970	Bellnhausen (Fronhausen)	Ev. church		I / p	5
1970-1971	Frankenberg (Eder)	Church of Our Lady		III / P	43	New building by Wolfgang Böttner
1973	Biedenkopf	Free evangelical community		I / P	11	New building by Wolfgang Böttner
1977	Peace Village	Ev. church		II / P	16	New building by Wolfgang Böttner; three empty loops prepared for expansion
1977	Biedenkopf	Hospital Church		II / P	18th	New building by Wolfgang Böttner behind the organ of the castle chapel in Breidenstein by Adam Eifert (1904)
1978	Calder	Nikolaikirche		II / P	20th	New building by Wolfgang Böttner behind the historic prospectus by Johann Christian Rindt (1702)
1979	Friedberg (Hesse)	Ev. Community Center West		I / p	5	New building by Wolfgang Böttner
1980	Wehrda (Marburg)	Trinity Church		II / P	23	New building by Wolfgang Böttner
1981	Wehrshausen (Marburg)	Marienkirche		I / P	8th	New building by Wolfgang Böttner
1982	Schreufa	Ev. church		I / P	13	New building by Wolfgang Böttner using original pipes
1984/85	Dautphe	Martinskirche		II / P	22nd	Expansion of the organ by Friedrich Euler (1961) by Wolfgang Böttner
1985	Haina (monastery)	Winter church		II / P	12	New building by Christoph Böttner
1988	Wulfen-Barkenberg	St. Barbara		II / P	24	New building by Wolfgang Böttner
1989	Hesel	Kreuzgemeinde ( SELK )		II / P	12	New building by Wolfgang Böttner
1991	Wunderthausen	Ev. church		II / P	14th	Masterpiece by Christoph Böttner
1995	Weipoltshausen (Lohra)	Ev. church		I / P	10	New building by Christoph Böttner
1997	Gistenbeck	Ev. church		II / P	15th	New building by Christoph Böttner
1997	Celle	Concordia parish		II / P	11	New building by Christoph Böttner
1998	Gisselberg	Ev. church		I / P	6th	New building by Christoph Böttner
1998	Ruchenbach	Ev. church		I / p	4th	New building by Christoph Böttner
1998	Uelzen	Zion Church		II / P	19th	New building by Christoph Böttner
1999	Damshausen	Ev. church		I / P	7th	New building by Christoph Böttner
2000	Melsungen	Christ Church		II / P	12	New building by Christoph Böttner
2001	Baunatal	Ev. church		II / P	10	New building by Christoph Böttner
2012	Altenvers	New Evangelical Church		I / P	8th	New building by Christoph Böttner including used registers

literature

• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 , p. 156 .
• Dieter Großmann: Organs and Organ Builders in Hesse (=  contributions to Hessian history . Volume 12 ). 2nd Edition. Trautvetter & Fischer, Marburg 1998, ISBN 3-87822-109-6 .
• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 , pp. 41 f .
• Eckhard Trinkaus, Gerhard Aumüller : Organ building in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district . In: Friedhelm Brusniak, Hartmut Wecker (ed.): Music in Waldeck-Frankenberg. Music history of the district . Bing, Korbach 1997, ISBN 3-87077-098-8 , pp. 144-202 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 1. 2009, p. 41.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders. 1991, p. 156.
3. ↑ Sound treasure with a long lifespan . In: Waldeckische Landeszeitung / Frankenberger Zeitung , January 28, 2010; accessed December 23, 2013.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Großmann: Organs and Organ Builders in Hessen. 1979, p. 110.
5. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.2 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 2: M-Z . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1331-5 , p. 972 f .
6. ^ Trinkaus, Aumüller: Organ building in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district. 1997, p. 160 f.
7. Jump up ↑ Herrenwaldkirche , accessed on September 1, 2016.
8. ^ Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 29.1 ). tape 3 : Former province of Upper Hesse. Part 1: A-L . Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 339 .
9. ^ Organ in Schreufa , accessed on March 12, 2017.
10. ^ Organ in Damshausen , accessed on December 23, 2013.