Organ building Kreienbrink

Kreienbrink Orgelmanufaktur GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1841 (by Ludwig Rohlfing)
Seat	Georgsmarienhütte
management	Kirsten Schweimler-Kreienbrink (Management), Joachim Kreienbrink (Workshop Manager)
Branch	Organ building
Website	http://www.orgelbau-kiegenbrink.de

The company Orgelbau Kreienbrink is a German organ builder based in Georgsmarienhütte . It was founded in 1841 by Ludwig Rohlfing.

history

The beginnings of organ building in Osnabrück go back to the year 1790, when the organ builder Anton Franz Schmid founded a workshop in Quakenbrück . Taken over by the organ builder Rohlfing in 1841 , this workshop carried out a total of 260 new organs and conversions by 1955. Due to the organ movement that began in 1924, only a few of these mostly pneumatic instruments have survived.

In 1951, master organ builder Matthias Kreienbrink joined the Rohlfing company as a partner, took over the workshop in 1955 and moved it to Osnabrück - Hellern in 1957 . Over 500 instruments were built, converted or restored under his direction. The return to the baroque building principles required the organ builders to completely change their way of working and the ideal sound.

Organ builder Joachim Kreienbrink took over the workshop from his father in 1994.

Since the 1990s, the company's focus has been on restorations. At the Schulze organ in the Reformed Church in Iserlohn z. For example, a trumpet and round, turned transverse flutes have been reconstructed, the case, play system, wind supply and part of the registers have been restored in the Ibach organ from 1865 in Fleckenberg. The technical new construction of the Johann Patroclus Möller organ in the Marienfeld monastery church in the style of 1750 should also be mentioned.

Recently, an increasing number of orders were carried out to convert and convert existing organs; the best example of this is the organ of the Nikolaikirche Potsdam .

At the end of 2003 the company headquarters was relocated from Osnabrück to Georgsmarienhütte . Ansgar Kreienbrink took over the management for three years, before the company management passed into the hands of his sister-in-law Kirsten Schweimler-Kreienbrink in January 2007. The workshop management remains with Joachim Kreienbrink.

List of works (selection)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1959	Neustadt (Hesse)	Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity		II / P	26th	→ organ
1961	Fulda	City parish church of St. Blaise		V / P	67	Reconstruction and expansion
1962	Marburg	St. Peter and Paul		II / P	35	→ organ
1967	Fulda	Christ Church		III / P	44	→ organ
1967	to water	St. Thomas More		II / P	21st	→ organ
1967-1968	Leybucht	Lutheran Church		I / P	6th	Model identical to the instruments in Juist and Grossen-Buseck (see below).
1968	Juist	Catholic Church To the holy Guardian Angels		I / P	6th	Since 1977 on Juist, previous location not known. Model identical to the organ in Leybucht (see above).
1968	Hürth Hermülheim	St. Severin			25th	with main movement, swell movement, pedal and 25 electrical stops, but mechanical action
1969	Norderney	Stella Maris		II / P	20th	2010 Transfer of the organ from the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Bremen and restoration by Westfälischer Orgelbau S. Sauer . → organ
1970 (approx.)	Grossen-Buseck	Catholic Church of St. Mary		I / P	6th	First in Giessen , St. Thomus More . Time of implementation according to Grossen-Buseck not known. Model identical to the instruments in Juist and Leybucht (see above).
1976	Fulda	Catholic Church of St. Paul		II / P	24	→ organ
1978	Osnabrück	Catholic Church of St. Johann		III / P	48	→ organ
1980	Bad Iburg	Castle Church		II / P	24	→ organ
1986	Großheide	Großheider Church		II / P	9
1986	Hamburg-Stellingen	St. Thomas More		II / P	23	→ organ
1989	Mechernich	St. John Baptist		III / P	37	→ organ
2005	Potsdam	St. Nikolai		II / P	21st	→ organ

Web links

Commons : Orgelbau Kreienbrink  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Kreienbrink company

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stadtpfarrei St. Blasius: 200 years city parish church - 100 years church choir , Oskar Quell printer, Fulda, 1986, p. 72
2. ↑ Norderneyer Morgen (June 9, 2010) (PDF file; 1.28 MB) (as of June 29, 2010).