W. Sauer organ building Frankfurt (Oder)

W. Sauer organ building Frankfurt (Oder)
legal form	GmbH
founding	1857
Seat	Frankfurt (Oder)
management	Wilhelm Sauer

The company W. Sauer Orgelbau Frankfurt (Oder) is a German organ building company that was founded in 1857 by Wilhelm Sauer . In 1917 it passed into the possession of the Walcker company from Ludwigsburg , but retained its independence under its workshop manager Karl Ruther. In the 19th and first half of the 20th century, it was one of the largest organ building companies in Germany. In 1996 the company was converted into a GmbH with its headquarters and workshop in Müllrose ( Brandenburg ) and a new company was founded in 2000.

history

The company developed into the leading organ builder in Prussia in the second half of the 19th century . Wilhelm Sauer retired in 1910 and sold his company to Paul Walcker , who had been operations manager since 1892 and deputy managing director since 1894. His nephew Oscar Walcker (1869–1948) from Ludwigsburg took over the company in 1917, which has since operated under the name "Wilhelm Sauer (Inh. Oscar Walcker)". Before the Second World War , between 100 and 120 people were employed. After the war, which had largely destroyed the workshops, the company was continued on a smaller scale under Anton Spallek. At the end of 1945 six employees were employed, in the 1960s around 30 employees. The son Gerhard Spallek, who had entered his father's workshop as an apprentice in 1945 and passed the master's examination as an organ builder in 1962, was given management responsibility in 1966. In 1972 it was nationalized as "VEB Frankfurter Orgelbau Sauer", the number of employees was 40, and Gerhard Spallek became operations director. In 1990 it was re-privatized as “W. Sauer organ building (owner Werner Walcker-Mayer) ”. Gerhard Spallek acted as managing director. In 1994 new workshops were opened in Müllrose. From 1996 the company operated under the name “W. Sauer Organ Building (Frankfurt / Oder) Dr. Walcker-Mayer GmbH & Co. KG ”. When the Walcker parent company in Kleinblittersdorf went bankrupt in 1999, Werner Walcker-Mayer resigned as owner and managing director of W. Sauer. In 2000 the workshop was opened under the name “W. Sauer Orgelbau Frankfurt (Oder) GmbH “was newly founded and has been managed by four shareholders since then.

plant

Wilhelm Sauer created organs in the late romantic style and used the cone chest . Instruments were produced in large numbers in an almost industrial way, but as a rule emphasis was placed on solid materials. 1100 organs were built by 1910. In Berlin alone, Sauer built 70 organs. Under Paul Walcker, who switched to the pocket drawer, 90 organs were built in seven years. By the Second World War, the number of new organs under Oscar Walcker grew to around 1,600. Before the nationalization, the company returned to the predominant manufacture of mechanical grinding chests. After 1972 exports to Eastern European countries increased sharply. In 2011, Opus 2276 was completed.

List of works (selection)

Organs up to 1910 can be found in the article Wilhelm Sauer .

The size of the instruments is indicated by the number of manuals (Roman numerals) and the number of sounding registers (Arabic numerals). A separate pedal is indicated by a capital "P". Italics indicate that the organ in question is no longer or only the prospectus has been preserved.

year	opus	place	building	image	Manuals	register	info
1911	1111	Heinersdorf	Village church		II / P	12	After the Second World War, the organ was in a desperate condition and no longer playable. For its centenary in 2011, the organ was inaugurated again after it had been restored by the Sauer company in several construction phases.
1913	1158	Berlin-Pankow	Hope Church Berlin-Pankow		II / P	29	Prospectus and 9 registers preserved → Organ
1913	1160	Wroclaw	Centennial Hall		V / P	206 + 2	→ Main article : Organ of the Centennial Hall (Breslau)
1915	1182	Sibiu	City parish church		IV / P	78	Restored in 1998.
1925	1307	Halle (Saale)	Moritz Church		III / P	59	pneumatic action → organ
1925	1308	Vieselbach	Holy Cross Church (Vieselbach)		III / P	33	pneumatic pocket drawer, donation of the landowner Otto Lippold in memory of his son who died in the First World War ; 2003–2006 restoration by Christian Scheffler from Sieversdorf near Frankfurt an der Oder
1926-1928		Goerlitz	St. Peter and Paul			at 95	electro-pneumatic, behind the brochure by Eugenio Casparini (1703); Demolished in 1978 due to dilapidation and replaced in 1997
1928		Bremen-center	The bell		IV / P	76	pneumatic pocket drawers, electro-pneumatic actions; 2006 restoration by Christian Scheffler
1929	1404	Strausberg	Marienkirche		III / P	37	2011–2015 restoration by Christian Scheffler (Sieversdorf). → organ
1930		Bielefeld	Rudolf-Oetker-Halle		III / P	53	1953 renovation, 1973 new gaming table and changes to the disposition by Willi Peter
1931		Kufstein Fortress	Hero organ in the citizen tower		II / P	26th	Erected as a war memorial ( First World War ). In 1971 W. Sauer Orgelbau (under Gerhard Spallek) enlarged to 4 manuals and 46 registers, rebuilt in 2009 by Eisenbarth and expanded to 65 registers. On her we daily u. a. The good comrade played.
1931		Guestrow	St. Mary		III / P	35	behind the Paul Schmidt prospectus with electro-pneumatic pocket drawers; today III / P / 43
1937	1516	Berlin-Hermsdorf	Apostle Paul Church		III / P	37	→ organ
1938		Rostock	Marienkirche		IV / P	83	Extension conversion with electro-pneumatic action → organ
1939	1615	Berlin-Bohnsdorf	Village church		II / P	13	1969 rebuilt by Sauer, 2009 restoration by Christian Scheffler (Sieversdorf); → organ
1949		Berlin-Hermsdorf	Village church		II / P	19th
1951	1692	Berlin-Bohnsdorf	Paul Gerhardt Community Home		II / P	12	→ organ
1954	1707	Eichwalde	Eben Ezer Chapel		II / P	9	→ organ
1957	1715	Berlin-Niederschöneweide	Friedenskirche		II / P	20th	→ organ
1960	1729	Berlin center	Saint Michael Church		II / P	25th	electro-pneumatic action → organ
1961	1723	Erkner	Church of Galilee		III / P	40	→ organ
1966	1770	Wismar	Marienkirche		II / P	16	→ organ
1968	1839	Birkenwerder	Evang. church		II / P	12	→ organ
1971	1955	Ribnitz-Damgarten	St. Bartholomew Church		II / P	14th	→ organ
1972		Rambin	Parish church		I / P	8th
1974	2008	Nordhausen	St. Mary on the mountain		I / P	8th
1975	2026	Rostock	Christ Church		II / P	17th	→ organ
1976	2041	Berlin-Kreuzberg	New Apostolic Church		I / P	4th
1976		Berlin-Weissensee	Parish church		II / P	15th	→ organ
1977		Gera	Stages in the city of Gera		III / P	50
1980		Halle (Saale)	Concert hall St. Ulrich Church		III / P	56
1983	2140	Wittenberg	City Church		III / P	53	Extension of the previous organ
1984		Neuruppin	St. Trinity Monastery Church		II / P	24	→ organ
1986	2198	Zingst	Peter and Paul Church		II / P	17th	In the historical case by Friedrich Albert Mehmel → Organ
1987	2207	Jena	Jena Philharmonic		III / P	61
1988	2216	Schwedt / Oder	St. Mary of the Assumption		II / P	17th	→ organ
1988	2217	Wolgast	St. Peter's Church		II / P	22nd	→ organ
1998-2000	2264	Weimar	Herder Church		III / P	53	in the historical case by Johann Gottlob Trampeli (1812); Reconstruction of the previous organ by Eberhard Friedrich Walcker (1907) including 36 stops of the Sauer organ from 1953/1964
2004	2272	Oberkassel (Düsseldorf)	Church of the Resurrection		III / P	65
1994-2007	2260	Berlin-Pankow	Hope Church Berlin-Pankow		II / P	33	New construction in several construction phases including the prospectus and 9 registers of the predecessor organ by Sauer (1913) and another 10 registers from the broken Sauer organ of the crematorium Berlin-Baumschulenweg → Organ
2010	2275	Hell	St. Martin's Church		II / P	22nd	New building after church fire in 2007, five transmissions

literature

• Hans Martin Balz : Divine Music. Organs in Germany (=  230th publication by the Society of Organ Friends ). Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 3-8062-2062-X .
• Hans Joachim Falkenberg: The organ workshop Wilhelm Sauer 1910-1995. Musikwissenschaftliche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Kleinblittersdorf 1998, ISBN 3-920670-37-X .
• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 , p. 289-290 .
• Uwe Pape : Historical organs in Brandenburg and Berlin . Pape, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-921140-65-X .
• 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. 241-245 .
• Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 2: Saxony and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-921140-92-5 .

Web links

• Homepage
• Hermann Fischer:  Sauer, Wilhelm Carl Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 458 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Organ landscape Brandenburg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 , p. 340 .
2. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area. 2009, p. 245.
3. ↑ Balz: Divine Music. 2008, p. 24.
4. ^ Hermann Fischer:  Sauer, Wilhelm Carl Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 458 f. ( Digitized version ).
5. ^ Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Master Organ Builders. 1999, p. 289.
6. ^ Christoph Wolff , Markus Zepf: The organs of JS Bach. A manual . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-374-02407-6 , p. 172 .
7. ↑ Homepage: Company history 1999–2002 , accessed on May 22, 2019.
8. ↑ Balz: Divine Music. 2008, p. 35.
9. ↑ Homepage: Company history 1910–1917 , accessed on May 22, 2019.
10. ^ Organ of the New Apostolic Church Brandenburg (Havel) , accessed on May 22, 2019.
11. ↑ EWE Foundation (ed.): Complete work of art and cultural heritage: Organ restorations 2002–2014. Zertani GmbH & Co. Die Druckerei KG, Bremen 2014, p. 38, 48.
12. ^ Organ in Vieselbach , accessed on November 11, 2019.
13. ^ Organ in Güstrow , accessed on May 22, 2019.
14. ^ Organ in Wittenberg , accessed on May 22, 2019.
15. ^ Organ in Zingst , accessed on May 22, 2019.
16. ^ Organ in Oberkassel , accessed on May 22, 2019.
17. ^ Organ in Holle , accessed on May 22, 2019.