Organ builder Reinhard Hüfken

Organ builder Reinhard Hüfken is a German organ builder based in Halberstadt .

history

Reinhard Hüfken (born March 17, 1951 in Tangermünde ; † September 2, 2019) completed his training as a cabinet maker from 1967 to 1969. This was followed by a three-year apprenticeship with Alexander Schuke Potsdam organ building and from 1973 to 1978 an apprenticeship with VEB Schuke. In 1978, Hüfken set up his own workshop in Halberstadt. Since Wilhelm Sohnle (1910–1993) did not take over the business as planned, there were two registered organ builders in Halberstadt for a few years.

From 1982 to 1991 Reinhard Hüfken worked with one to three journeymen and concentrated on the restoration of historical organs of various tractor systems . In the winter months, positives were built on the basis of a two-foot principal . Hüfken passed the master craftsman examination in 1983.

The son Johannes Hüfken was an apprentice at the Glatter-Götz organ building workshop in Owingen from 2001-2004 and has been working in the Halberstadt company ever since. In 2012 he passed the master's examination. At times, the company had up to ten employees, in 2017 there were seven employees.

List of works (selection)

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

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1984	Klingenthal	Round Church of the Prince of Peace , parish hall		I / p	4th	New building
1987	Halle (Saale)	Evangelical College for Church Music , room 210		I / p	4th	New building
1987	Genzien	Village church				New building
1988	Big boy	St. Boniface		I / p	4th	New building
1990	Bad Berka	New Apostolic Church		I / p	4th	New building
1990	Lützensummer	Village church		I / p	4th	New building
1992	Pretzia	St. Thomas		II / P	17th	New building
1997	Halle (Saale)	St. Laurence		II / P	24	New building; some registers of the previous organ taken over by Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau (1964)
1997	Duttenstedt	St. John's Church		II / P	13	New building
since 1998	Halberstadt	St. Moritz		II / P	29	Restoration of the organ by Balthasar Georg Christoph Jesse (1787) in several construction phases
2000	Halberstadt	St. Burchardi Monastery Church				New building together with organ builder Romanus Seifert & Sohn for the piece of music ORGAN² / ASLSP by John Cage
2000	Quedlinburg	St. Blasii		II / P	30th	Restoration of the organ by Ernst Röver (1901) behind the baroque prospect → Organ
2002	Hamburg-Eppendorf	New Apostolic Church		II / P	23	New building
2002	Halberstadt	Halberstadt Cathedral , Winter Church		II / P	22nd	New building
2005	Caputh	Stülerkirche		II / P	17th	New building
2005	Bremen -Sebaldsbrück	New Apostolic Church		II / P	18th	New building
2005-2006	Moscow	St. Peter and Paul		III / P	33	Restoration of the organ by Wilhelm Sauer (1898)
2005-2007	Lenzen	St. Catherine's		II / P	29	Restoration of the organ by Gottlieb Scholtze (1759) with registers by Arp Schnitger and Hans Scherer the Younger
2007	Magdeburg	Pauluskirche		II / P	30th	Restoration of the organ by Wilhelm Rühlmann (1896); Conversion of the second manual into a swell
2010	Torment	Holy angel		III / P	32	Restoration of the English organ by Albert Keates (1908)
2010	Schönhausen (Elbe)	Village church of St. Marien and Willebrord		I / P	14th	Restoration of the organ by Gottlieb Scholtze (1770)
2011	Halle (Saale)	Moritz Church		III / P	59	Restoration of the organ by Wilhelm Sauer (1925) → Organ
2011	Neindorf	Castle chapel		II / P	23	Partial restoration of the organ by Johann Christoph Wiedemann (1778)
2012	Moscow	Baptist Church		III / P	38	Partial restoration of the organ by Ernst Röver (1898)
2013	Liebenburg	Castle Church of the Annunciation		II / P	26th	General repair of the organ by Johann Conrad Müller (1761)
2013-2014	Kroppenstedt	Martini Church		II / P	20 + 6	Restoration of the organ by Adolf Reubke (1858) behind the case by Esaias Compenius the Elder (1603–1613), reconstruction of the lost registers; New construction of a “Compenius memorial organ” (I / 6) in the Rückpositiv case by Esaias Compenius the Elder (1603–1613) including 4 partially preserved Compenius registers with its own console on the Rückpositiv, new wind chest and mid-tone tuning
2015	Limlingerode	Ev. church		II / P	14th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Christian Werner (around 1810)
2016	Rießen	Ev. church		I / P	8th	Restoration of the organ by Johann George Gast (1801, extension in 1886)
2016	Zaasch	Ev. church		II / P	12	Restoration of the organ by Conrad Geißler (1858)
2018-2019	Hanover	Nazareth Church		III / P	31	Restoration, extension and installation of the English organ by Forster & Andrews (1902)
2019/2020	Lauchhammer-West	Castle Church		II / P	16	in the restored housing from the early 19th century

literature

• Felix Friedrich , Vitus Froesch: Organs in Saxony-Anhalt - A travel guide (=  268th publication of the Society of Organ Friends ). Kamprad, Altenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930550-79-1 .
• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 , p. 212 .
• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . tape 2 : Saxony and bypassing . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-921140-92-5 , pp. 159-160 .
• Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. tape 1 : Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 , pp. 134-135 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Master Organ Builders. 1991, p. 212.
2. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area. 2009, p. 134.
3. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 2: Saxony and the surrounding area. 2012, p. 159.
4. ↑ Homapge: Our team , website accessed on June 17, 2017.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Organ City Halberstadt (PDF; 715 kB).
6. ↑ Friedrich, Froesch: Organs in Saxony-Anhalt. 2014, p. 29.
7. ^ Organ in Peine , accessed on May 6, 2019.
8. ^ Organ building Hüfken: Hanover. Retrieved January 22, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Nazareth Church has a new organ. Retrieved January 22, 2019 . 

Web links

• Homepage of organ builder Reinhard Hüfken
• Organ town Halberstadt (PDF; 715 kB)