Organ building Vleugels

Orgelbau Vleugels GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1967
Seat	Hardheim , Germany
management	Hans-Georg Vleugels Johannes DC Vleugels
Number of employees	20th
Branch	Organ building
Website	www.vleugels.de

Orgelbau Vleugels is an organ building workshop in Hardheim ( Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis , Baden-Württemberg ).

history

The history of organ building in Hardheim began in 1855 with Ignaz Dörr , was continued by the Bader family from 1886 and continues to this day under the name Vleugels.

Hans Theodor Vleugels learned organ building from 1945 to 1948 with W. Kendel in Oberndorf / N., Then worked with Klais and Walcker and passed the master's examination in 1957. In 1958, as master organ builder, Vleugels took over the organ building company from Maximilian Bader in Langen Gasse and two years later also that of his brother Wilhelm Bader junior in Würzburger Straße . From 1960 to 1966, the two organ building companies were jointly run by Hans Theodor Vleugels and Paul Mund. In 1967 Hans Theodor Vleugels founded Orgelbau-Vleugels GmbH .

In 1985, after the death of Winfried Albiez, the inventory of the Albiez company and individual employees were taken over and projects (Augsburg Bärenkeller ev. Church, Karlsruhe-Rüppurr Christkönigskirche) were completed.

A new building complex was acquired in 1985 at today's company headquarters in the Roten Au in Hardheim. In 1989 this area was supplemented by a new workshop building with a large assembly hall and expanded several times to this day.

In 1991, master organ builder Hans-Georg Vleugels took over the management of Orgelbau-Vleugels GmbH and has lived with his family in the expanded workshop in Hardheim since 1995. Also in 1995 a large warehouse for historical organs and organ parts was built and all external storage facilities were integrated into it.

Another workshop building was added in 2005 on the neighboring property and today houses u. a. the wood store and the wood cutting.

Organ works of all sizes are created and restored in a workshop area of ​​2000 m².

plant

In addition to classic instruments, more modern designs are also made. The style of the new buildings is characterized by a synthesis of late Baroque and German-Romantic elements; Since around 1990, innovative tendencies have also been manifest in the design of brochures, especially in terms of color.

Early modern instruments by Hans Theodor Vleugels are the organ from Cologne-Gremberg, placed on a concrete mushroom or a new type of console on steel pillars with a register panel that can be swiveled to the side in Stuttgart-Möhringen. In Stuttgart-Fasanenhof, an organ was built on a free-hanging steel structure, partly clad with Plexiglas.

Hans-Georg Vleugels has been designing organ cases with modern surface painting since 1996. In collaboration with various artists, 15 instruments with colored organ prospects have been created to date. These organs are in:

• Kitzingen , St. Johannes (1996)
• Bad Tölz , Franciscan monastery (1998)
• Runding , Parish Church of St. Andreas (1998)
• Schifferstadt , St. Jakobus (1999)
• Geigant , St. Bartolomäus (2002)
• A- blind market , St. Anna (2002)
• Krefeld , Old Church (2003)
• CH- Zernez , cath. Church (2005)
• Lampertheim , Protestant cathedral (2005)
• Würzburg , Juliusspital (2005)
• Stuttgart , St. Fidelis (2005)
• Emmelshausen , St. Hildegard (2006)
• Limbach (Baden) , St. Valentin (2007)
• Regensburg , seminary (2008)
• Chemnitz , Castle Church (2006–2011)

Organs were created in collaboration with the following artists:

• Jacques Gassmann
• Peter Black
• Martin Figlhuber
• Rudolf Mirer
• Eberhard Münch
• Thomas Lange
• Anina Gröger
• Gabriele Wilpers
• Friedrich Koller

In addition to color schemes, organs with a contemporary design were also conceived and built. This is how works such as the glass organs in the airport chapel, Munich (1997) and at the world exhibition Expo2000 in Hanover or the organ of the provost church in Jülich (1998) were created. The organ in the Juliusspital Würzburg has painted double doors that can be closed electrically while playing. In Limbach, a new shape of an organ case was created from an elliptical floor plan. In Assamstadt 1975 and Pöcking 1995 paintings were used as curtain screens.

The organs from the workshop in Hardheim are based on the southern German Baroque and German Romanticism, but show a large number of variants in all sound styles. In the Chemnitz Castle Church , an organ in the style of the French Romanticism of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll was built for the first time . An original Barker machine from his workshop is also built into this organ.

Mechanical slider chests have been built since 1960. In the new building, registers have been used again in individual cases since 1995 (Aschaffenburg, Herz-Jesu). Very early on for post-war organ building, good existing registers from previous instruments were used in new buildings, such as in Hardheim, St. Alban (1968).

restoration

In addition to older organs, romantic works such as the concert hall organs in Görlitz , Heidelberg , Prague and, for example, the church organ in Chemnitz in St. Petri have been restored. The restoration of the Voit organ in the Heidelberg City Hall set new standards.

"At the same time, the result of the restoration [...] is suitable to refute the long discussion about the unrestorable nature of late romantic organs and to set new standards in the careful use of pneumatic and electrical systems"

- Klaus Könner : The Voit organ in the Heidelberg City Hall , 1993

In 2004 the Eberhard Friedrich Walcker organ from 1856 in Loffenau (Opus 144; II / 23) was restored by Vleugels.

In 2009 the restoration department of the organ manufacture worked on the Cavaillé-Coll organ from 1884 (II / 26) in the Basílica de San Francisco el Grande , Madrid.

The UNESCO commissioned Barnim Grüneberg , Stettin (1828–1907) , the largest mechanical church organ in the world , built in 1885 for the Trinity Church in Libau / Latvia with 131 stops on 4 manuals and pedal, to examine and document.

List of works (selection)

The opus list includes new buildings as well as extensive restorations. The count begins with the takeover of the Hardheim organ building workshops by master organ builder Hans Theodor Vleugels in 1958.

The size of the instruments is indicated in the sixth column by the number of manuals and the number of sounding registers in the seventh column. A capital “P” stands for a separate pedal.

year	opus	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1959	1	Seckach	Ev. church		I.	5
1960	2	Hemsbach	St. Laurence		II / P	23
1960	4th	Mörrum ( Sweden )	church		II / P	22nd	→ Mörrum Church in the Swedish Wikipedia, the organ was replaced by a new instrument in 2016.
1961	6th	Freudenberg (Baden)	St. Laurence		III / P	31
1961	8th	Nättraby ( Sweden )	church		II / P	10	→ Church Nättraby with organ description in the Swedish Wikipedia, the organ was replaced by a new instrument in 1991.
1964	26th	Beeches (Odenwald)	St. Oswald		III / P	38
1965	51	Waiblingen	St. Anthony		III / P	33
1966	56	Muellheim (Baden)	Ev. church		III / P	46
1968	79	Stuttgart - Feuerbach (Stuttgart)	St. Joseph		III / P	28
1968	88	Sinsheim	St. James		III / P	36
1971/1972	98	Eberbach	St. John Nepomuk		III / P	56
1970	106	Stuttgart – Möhringen	St. Hedwig		III / P	37
1972	118	Stuttgart- Untertürkheim	St. Germanus		III / P	42
1975	139	Walldürn	Pilgrimage Basilica of St. George		III / P	40	Housing by Johann Christian Dauphin
1977	152	Aschaffenburg	Capuchin Church of St. Elisabeth		III / P	37
1979	168	Goettingen	St. Godehard		II / P	21st
1980	175	Elsenfeld - Schippach	St. Pius		II / P	26th
1981	181	Klettgau - Erzingen	St. George		III / P	41
1982	188	Höpfingen	St. Aegidius Church		II / P	23	Case by H. Voit & Sons from 1910
1984	200	Lauda-Koenigshofen - Koenigshofen	St. Mauritius		II / P	22nd	Case by H. Voit & Sons from 1910
1986	216	Karlsruhe - Rüppurr	Christ the King Church		II / P	35
1988	233	Aschaffenburg	Mary birth		II / P	27
1989/1990	245	Gaibach	Kreuzkapelle		I / P	7th	Restoration of the Schleich organ from 1699
1991	260	Wurzburg	Käppele		II / P	32	New building behind the historical prospectus by Johann Christian Köhler (1750)
1994	290	Munich	Citizens Hall Church		III / P	50
1995	295	Poecking	St. Pius X.		II / P	35
1995	300	Aschaffenburg	Heart of jesus		IV / P	63
1996	302	Schäftlarn	Schäftlarn monastery		II / P	31	Housing by Anton Bayr around 1762
1996/2007	303	Kitzingen	St. John		III / P	54	artistic color version by Jacques Gassmann
1996	304	Boars	St. Laurence		II / P	34	New building, disposition based on Holzhey
1997	315	Dachau	St. Jacob		II / P	35
1997	317	Gaibach	Trinity Church		I / P	12	Restoration of the organ by Johann Philipp Seuffert (1748)
1997		Landshut	St. Martin		I / P	7th	Chest Organ → Organ
1998	320	Jülich	Provost Parish Church		III / P	45
1998	325	Munich-Hasenbergl	St. Nicholas		II / P	28
1998	326	Rounding	New parish church of St. Andrew		II / P	36
1998	329	Schliengen -Obereggenen	Bürgeln Castle		I.	6th	Gray glass organ from Expo 2000 , installation in Castle Bürgeln 2016
1999	333	Schifferstadt	Parish Church of St. James		III / P	45	artistic color version by Jacques Gassmann
2002	351	Riedenburg	Parish Church of St. Johann Baptist		II / P	24	→ organ
2002	355	Blind market	Parish Church of St. Anna		III / P	30th
2002	360	Violinist	St. Bartholomew		II / P	27
2005	379	Wurzburg	Juliusspital		II / P	29	artistic color version by Thomas Lange
2005	380	Stuttgart	St. Fidelis		III / P	44	artistic color version by Annina Gröger
2006/2011	390	Chemnitz-Schloßchemnitz	Castle Church		III / P	48	artistic color version by Jacques Gassmann
2007	398	Limbach	St. Valentine		II / P	26th	artistic design together with Gabriele Wilpers
2009	405	Landsberg am Lech	former Ursuline Church		II / P	17th	Restoration of the organ by H. Koulen & Son from 1911
2013	422	Hausham	St. Anton		II / P	32	Restoration of the organ by H. Koulen & Son from 1911
2015	430	Leipzig	Provost church of St. Trinity		III / P	46	New building
2015	431	Pious	St. Paul		II / P	21st	New building
2016	432	Gillenfeld	Parish church		II / P	17th	Partial reconstruction of the Voit organ (1902), electro-pneumatic, originally pneumatic
2016	433	Reichenbach	St. Stephen's Church		II / P	25th	Reconstruction of the organ by Konrad Albiez
2016	434	Hohenpeissenberg	Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption		II / P	20th	New building in the housing by Balthasar Freiwiß , glockenspiel, cymbal star, nightingale, key heating
2017	437	Sinsheim	St. James the Elder Ä.		III / P	36	New gaming table for Opus 88, dynamic coupling
2017/18	439	Adelsdorf	St. Stephen		II / P	44	Restoration and new construction, 15 registers of the original Strebel organ from 1910
2017/18	440	Wurzburg	St. Peter and Paul		III / P	55	New building, 4 housings in 3 locations, mobile gaming table
2018	441	Moscow	Rachmaninov Concert Hall		IIII / P	80	New construction, 4-manual console for Hauptwerk organ system, preparation for new organ construction
2018	442	Alsheim	Assumption Day		I / P	14th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Ignaz Seuffert (1764)
2018	443	Tiger field	St. Stephen		II / P	14th	Restoration, Blessing organ (1864)
2018/2019	444	Deggendorf	Assumption Day		III / P	43	New building
2019	447	Deggendorf	Assumption Day		II / P	21st	New building

literature

• Friends of Propsteimusik Leipzig eV in Gudrun Schröder Verlag Leipzig (ed.): The Vleugels organ in the Propsteikirche St. Trinitatis Leipzig - Festschrift for the consecration of the organ on September 27, 2015 in Leipzig . Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-926196-73-6 (59 pages).

Web links

Commons : Vleugels Orgel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Vleugels organ manufacture
• The organ in the Chemnitz Castle Church

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders. Florian Noetzel Verlag, Heinrichshofen 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 , p. 428.
2. ↑ Christ the King's Church in Rüppurr .
3. ^ Hermann J. Busch, Matthias Geuting: Lexicon of the organ. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 2007.
4. ↑ Quoted from Hermann J. Busch, Matthias Geuting: Lexikon der Orgel. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 2007.
5. ↑ Kitzingen
6. ↑ Blind market
7. ↑ Krefeld
8. ^ Lampertheim ( Memento from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Emmelshausen
10. ↑ Report on the new organ in the Chemnitz Castle Church (accessed on November 21, 2009)
11. ^ Organ in Hardheim , accessed on January 18, 2016.
12. ↑ The EFWalcker - Organ in Loffenau ( Memento of 26 January 2012 at the Internet Archive ).
13. ↑ ^{a b} The organ is listed in the Swedish Wikipedia as the work of Max Bader, whose workshop Vleugels had taken over in 1958 before he founded Vleugels GmbH in 1967. Although Vleugel's list of opus begins with Opus 1 in 1959, it can be assumed that the instruments produced until 1966 were built under the Baders company name.
14. ^ Friends of Propsteimusik Leipzig eV in Gudrun Schröder Verlag Leipzig (ed.): The Vleugels organ in the Propsteikirche St. Trinitatis Leipzig - Festschrift for the consecration of the organ on September 27, 2015 in Leipzig . Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-926196-73-6 (59 pages).