Organ building Simon

Orgelbau Simon , today Orgelbau Lothar Simon & Sohn , is an organ building company in Muddenhagen , a district of the town of Borgentreich in the East Westphalian district of Höxter .

history

Lothar Simon (* 1932), who built the organ a. a. learned in the companies Späth , Euler and Feith , founded the company in 1969 in Muddenhagen after the master craftsman's examination. His son Bernd Simon (* 1962) has been working in his parents' company since 1979. Since 1993 the company has been called Orgelbau Lothar Simon & Sohn. At the end of 2004, Lothar Simon left the company for reasons of age at the age of 72.

The organ building company mainly delivers to East Westphalia, South Westphalia, North Hesse and the Trier and Koblenz area, but has also exported works to Norway, Poland and Luxembourg. By 1991 over 100 new organs were built, and by 2013 over 160 works.

List of works (selection)

year	place	church	Manuals	register	Remarks
1969	Warburg	St. Laurentius Home	II	16
1971	New Ulm	Petruskirche	III	33	1986 expanded
1972	Borgentreich- Lütgeneder	St. Michael	II / P	16
1975	Borgentreich stage	St. Vitus	II / P	18th
1976	Rheda-Wiedenbrück- St. Vit	St. Vitus	II / P	22nd
1978	Gutersloh	Church of Our Lady	II / P	25th
1978	Muenster	St. Gottfried	II / P	28
1979	Osnabrück- Atter	Good Leye	II / P	13
1983	Xanten	Xanten Cathedral	I.	6th
1984	Koblenz	Church of Our Lady	III / P	38
1986	Hemer- Bredenbruch	St. Mary	II / P	11
1988	Gutersloh	Holy Family	II / P	19th
1989	Bodø , Norway	St. Olav	II / P	15th
1991	Twist flush	St. George	II / P	31
1992	Kottenheim	St. Nicholas	II	29
1994	Paderborn	St. Kilian	II / P	22nd
1996	Koblenz-Güls	St. Servatius	II / P	30th
1996	Rimbeck	St. Elisabeth	II / P	23
1997	Paderborn	St. Hedwig	II / P	11
2001	Essen- Frillendorf	Holy Guardian Angel	II / P	26th
2002	Jump	Christ king	II / P	20th
2004	Dobrodzien , Poland	St. Magdalena	II / P	22nd
2004	Verden (Aller)	St. Joseph	II / P	22nd
2005	Hanover	Maria peace	II / P	26th

literature

Hermann Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 .
Hannalore Reuter: Historic organs in Westphalia-Lippe . Ardey-Verlag, Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-87023-245-0 .

Web links

www.orgelbau-simon.de

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders. 1991, p. 308.
↑ orgelbau-simon.de: Organ directory , viewed March 8, 2013.
↑ Simon organ in the Petruskirche
^ Claudius Engelhardt: The parish church in Kottenheim: A tour through the church and its history. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7322-9829-7 .

[Fischer-1] Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders. 1991, p. 308.

[2] rgelbau-simon.de: Organ directory , viewed March 8, 2013.

[3] Simon organ in the Petruskirche

[4] Claudius Engelhardt: The parish church in Kottenheim: A tour through the church and its history. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7322-9829-7 .