Organ building Hardt

Orgelbau Hardt is a German organ building company in Möttau . The family business is the successor to Daniel Raßmann and has been in the fourth generation since 1906.

history

Daniel Raßmann founded a company in 1820, which passed to his son Gustav Raßmann in 1860 . His journeyman August Hardt (1861–1946) acquired the company in 1896 and took over the workshop in which he had taken over responsibility from the 1880s. Until the death of Gustav Raßmann in 1906, the company operated under the name Raßmann.

In the second generation, Alfred Hardt (* 1900 in Möttau; † 1960 there), who had learned organ building at GF Steinmeyer & Co. in 1925/26, continued the business from 1930. He concentrated on repair and maintenance work in the Hessen-Nassau area and specialized in the construction of gaming tables . Therefore, there are hardly any independent new buildings between 1920 and 1940.

Grandson Günter Hardt (* 1933) took over the company in 1953 in the third generation. Under his direction numerous small new organs were built in the Taunus, Westerwald and Frankfurt area. A second focus is the restoration of historical organs. His son Uwe Hardt (* 1964) continues the family tradition.

List of works (selection)

In the fifth column, the Roman numeral indicates the number of manuals , a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal , a lower-case "p" indicates an attached pedal. The Arabic number indicates the number of sounding registers. The last column provides information on the state of preservation or special features.

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1898	Buchenau	Martinskirche		I / P	8th	New building by August Hardt (Raßmann); preserved almost unchanged
1961	Salt soils	Protestant church		I / P	11	behind the historic rococo prospect from 1760
1962	Groß-Rechtenbach	Protestant church		I / P	8th	New building by Günter Hardt
1963	Launsbach	Protestant church		I / P	7th	Moved to Launsbach in 1980
1963	Graevenwiesbach	Protestant church		II / P	22nd	New building behind the prospectus by Johann Christian Köhler (1750)
1965	Braunfels	Castle Church		II / P	20th	Umdisponierung of 1890 advanced by Hardt and rebuilt around 1950 organ, originally from Johann Friedrich Syer (1766-1768) as a choir organ for Arnsburg Abbey was built
1967	Katzenfurt	Protestant church		II / P	13	New building
1967	Laufdorf	Protestant church		II / P	10	behind the prospectus by Johann Andreas Heinemann (1776)
1967	Wissmar	Protestant church		II / P	19th
1968	Krofdorf-Gleiberg	Katharinenkirche Gleiberg		I / P	6th	New building installed between two galleries
1970	Biskirchen	Protestant church		II / P	14th	New building
1970	Schwalbach (Schöffengrund)	Protestant church		II / P	16	New building behind the prospectus by Guido Knauf (1872)
1970	Lützellinden	Protestant church		II / P	15th	New building behind the prospectus by the Bernhard brothers (1894); In 1999 a pedal register was added
1971	Krofdorf-Gleiberg	Margarethenkirche (Krofdorf)		I / P	11	including the old registers of the predecessor organ by Gebr. Ziese (1854)
1971-1972	Usingen	Laurentiuskirche		I / P	14th	New building behind the prospectus by Johann Nikolaus Schäfer (1718) and including some registers of the previous organ by Gustav Raßmann (1881)
1980	Hohensolms	Protestant church		II / P	13	New building → organ
1982	Albshausen	Protestant church		I / P	8th	New building in the historical housing by Johann Georg Dreuth (around 1750) using the still preserved wind chest
1984	Niederwalgern	Village church		II / P	13	New building
1991	Bersrod	Protestant church		I / P	6th	New building
1998	Löhnberg	Ev. church		I / P	10	New building using parts of the previous organ
1998	Burkhards	Ev. church		I / P	10	New building including parts of the organ by Rassmann (1863), four registers new
2000	Niederzeuzheim	St. Peter		II / P	23	New building
2003	Niederhöchstadt	St. Nicholas		III / P	23	New building with unit system and transmissions, electro-magnetic actions
2005	Herring (Otzberg)	Mary birth		II / P	12	New building with alternating loops
2006	Lying	St. Goar		I / P	9	New building
2021	Eltville on the Rhine	St. Peter and Paul		III / P	60-70	New construction behind a neo-Gothic case including stops from the previous organ (1962), fourth manual prepared for expansion

literature

• Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.1 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 1: A-K . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 .
• Franz Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.2 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 2: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1370-6 .
• Hermann Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 , p. 199 .

Web links

• Hardt Orgelbau: Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Orgelbau Hardt: The history of organ building in Möttau , seen January 3, 2014.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders. 1991, p. 199.
3. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Vol. 2, Part 1: A – K. 1975, p. 104.
4. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Vol. 2, Part 2: L – Z. 1975, p. 548.
5. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Vol. 2, Part 1: A – K. 1975, p. 383.
6. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Vol. 2, Part 1: A – K. 1975, p. 95.
7. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Vol. 2, Part 2: L – Z. 1975, p. 897.
8. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Vol. 2, Part 1: A – K. 1975, p. 376.
9. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Vol. 2, Part 2: L – Z. 1975, p. 602.
10. ^ Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Vol. 2, Part 1: A – K. 1975, p. 526.
11. ↑ Helmut Fritz: Organ history of the Ev. Laurentiuskirche Usingen (PDF file; 4.5 MB), viewed January 3, 2014.
12. ^ Organ in Eltville , accessed on July 28, 2020.