Organ building Schulte

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Orgelbau Schulte is an organ building company in Kürten , which is run in the second generation.

Foundation and development

Siegfried Schulte, who fled Upper Silesia with his parents as a toddler, learned the profession of organ and harmonium builder from Cologne organ builder Willi Peter at the age of 15 after graduating from elementary school in 1955 . After 25 years of experience and passing the master craftsman's examination, Siegfried Schulte started his own business in 1978 and founded his own company in Kürten. After initial makeshift work in parts of the building of a farm in Herweg, the first workshop was built in 1979 in Odenthal- Scheuren. In the 1980s, Schulte initially worked on church organs, especially in the niche sector of house organs , more precisely wall organs, organs that should be attractive to private customers both musically and in terms of design and for which he even had a patent. With a growing volume of orders for larger organs, the workshop was relocated to Kürten- Bechen in 1986 and to the Kürten-Herweg industrial estate in 1997.

Second generation

In 1997 son Oliver began his apprenticeship as an organ builder in his father's workshop after high school and community service. After graduation (2000) and a year at the organ building company Peter Vier , Black Forest, well-known for renovations , and further work in the father's workshop combined with further training as a business economist (HWK) and the master’s course at the musical instrument maker school in Ludwigsburg , Oliver Schulte took over the company in 2006 . An economic crisis situation, triggered by a withdrawn major order, was overcome by the company (from 2008) by restructuring and downsizing as well as shifting the focus of activity from new construction to restoration, especially of organs from the Anglo-American region. The young organ builder uses social networks intensively and internationally .

Works (selection)

year place building image Manuals register Remarks
1978 Dabringhausen -Grunewald Apollinare Church II / P 11 New building Opus 1
1983 Altenberg St. Mark's Chapel
Organ of the Markuskapelle Altenberg.jpg
 II / P 4th New building; mechanical slider chests
1986 Swisttal - Ludendorf St. Peter and Paul II / P 19th New building; mechanical slider chests
1990 Bergisch Gladbach St. Severin II / P 21st New building; electric slider drawers
1991 Schildgen Heart of jesus II / P 25th New building; electric slider drawers
1992 Cologne-Porz St. Joseph III / P 41 New building; mechanical grinding shop (until now largest new building by Schulte)
1994 Pulheim - Stommeln St. Martinus II / P 30th New building; electric slider drawers
1995 Kerpen St. Martinus , choir organ III / P 19th New building; electric slide chests, combinable with main organ
1996 Hebborn To the fountain of salvation II / P 17th New building; mechanical slider chests
1996 Cologne madness St. Aegidius II / P 17th New building; electric slider drawers
1996 Friesdorf (Bonn) St. Servatius II / P 27 New building; electric slider drawers
1997 Boedingen Pilgrimage Church to the Sorrowful Mother of God II / P 24 New building; electric slider drawers
1998 Kerpen St. Martinus, main organ III / P 24 New building; Electropneumatic cone chests , combinable with choir organ
1998 Biesfeld Mater Dolorosa II / P 20th New building; electric slider drawers
1999 Wipperfeld St. Clement II / P 22nd New building; electric slider drawers
1999 Marialinden St. Mary's Visitation II / P 21st New building; electric slider drawers
2000/2001 Cologne- Vingst St. Theodore II / P 26th New building; mechanical slider chests
2002 Reusrath St. Barbara II / P 26th New building; mechanical slider chests
2003 Kleinbüllesheim St. Peter and Paul II / P 11 Installation of the restored Klais organ from 1885 from the Collegium Josephinum Bonn
2006/2007 Bruchhausen (Neuwied district) St. John Baptist II / P 19th Installation and extension of a used Feith organ from 1962 from a Dortmund church
2007 Herkenrath - Bärbroich St. Mary s. t. Immaculata Conceptionis I / P 12 Restoration and extension of the organ by Christian Roetzel (1821)
2007 Limperic Holy Cross Church III / P 35 Restoration of the organ by James Jepson Binns (1905), which is currently the largest English organ with romantic sound characteristics on mainland Europe
2011 Cologne-Rodenkirchen St. Maternus II / P 21st Restoration of the organ by Steere & Turner (1869)
2012/2013 Castelo Branco , Portugal São José Operário II / P 27 Restoration of an organ by Henry Willis & Sons (1928) from the United Methodist Church in Prescot / Liverpool. Now the largest organ in the Portuguese hinterland.
2017/2018 Bad Sooden-Allendorf St. Crucis (Bad Sooden-Allendorf) III / P 61 Restoration and installation of an organ (1852) from the Holy Trinity Church in Cambridge

literature

  • Hermann Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Master Organ Builders. 1991, p. 301.
  2. ^ Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Master Organ Builders. 1991, p. 302.
  3. ↑ orgel-information.de: Orgelbau Schulte ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , seen June 26, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.orgel-information.de
  4. ↑ Simon Schomäcker ( Deutschlandfunk, February 24, 2012): Organs also second hand , seen June 26, 2013.
  5. ↑ Facebook page , accessed June 27, 2013.
  6. ↑ Conversion story on Facebook (Oliver Schulte) (accessed June 2013)