Organ building Waltershausen

Organ building Waltershausen GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	May 31, 1991
Seat	Waltershausen
management	Stephan Krause and Joachim Stade
Number of employees	9
Branch	Musical instrument making
Website	orgelbau-waltershausen.de

Orgelbau Waltershausen is an organ building workshop based in Waltershausen , which was founded in 1991. The company has emerged through the restoration of historic organs and through historically oriented new buildings. The focus of activity is on the organ landscape of Thuringia .

history

The workshop was founded on May 31, 1991 as a company under civil law . As with the Thuringian Rösel & Hercher Orgelbau , the company was only made possible by the German reunification . Co-founders were the organ builders Stephan Krause, Bernhard Kutter, Joachim Stade and Dietmar Ullmann, who had met as journeymen at Rudolf Böhm Orgelbau, Gotha. Stade (born June 8, 1961) was an apprentice at Böhm from 1982 to 1984 and a journeyman from 1985 to 1991. In 1997 he passed the master craftsman examination. Krause (born April 24, 1963 in Erfurt) learned organ building from 1983 to 1986 at VEB Frankfurter Orgelbau Sauer and was then a journeyman at Böhm until 1991. Kutter (born February 12, 1961) was also a journeyman at Böhm before he became managing director of the Waltershausen organ building workshop in 1991 together with Krause and Stade.

The young organ builders familiarized themselves with the classic organ building techniques of the 18th century. Already when the first major new organ was built in 1993 in Völkershausen (Vacha) , a historical tuning based on Georg Andreas Sorge (1764) was set. A move to larger workshop rooms in 1995 led to new opportunities and from February 1, 1996 onwards a new form of company as a GmbH. The restoration of the organ in the town church in Waltershausen from 1995 to 1998 was a defining feature of the company . After Kutter left the company in 2005 and became self-employed in 2006, master organ builders Joachim Stade and Stephan Krause took on responsibility for seven employees as managing directors.

List of works (selection)

year	place	Building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1993	Völkershausen (Vacha)	Michaeliskirche		II / P	25th	New building, free-standing gaming table with a third manual as a coupling manual, mirror principle in the prospectus, pedal on main drawer with three transmissions
1994-1995	Mechterstädt	Marienkirche		II / P	25th	Restoration of the organ by Carl Christian Hoffmann (1770)
1993-1996	Graefenhain	St. Trinity		II / P	21st	Restoration of the organ by Johann Christoph Thielemann (1728–1731)
1993-1997	Muhlberg	Saint Luke Church		II / P	26th	Restoration of the organ by Franciscus Volckland (1729) and Ernst Siegfried Hesse (1824)
1997	Eisenach	Hainstein Chapel		I / P	12	New building with split loops, masterpiece Joachim Stade
1997	Schalkau	St. Johannis		II / P	23	Partial restoration of the organ by Friedrich Wilhelm Holland (1875)
1997	Schmerbach (Waltershausen)	Christ Church		II / P	16	Restoration of the organ by Friedrich Knauf (2nd half of the 19th century)
1995-1998	Waltershausen	City Church		III / P	47	Restoration of the organ by Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost (1722–1730) → Organ of the town church (Waltershausen)
1997-1998	Sondershausen	St. Elisabeth		II / P	16	New building
1998	Ecklingerode	St. Valentine		II / P	16	Restoration of the organ by Louis Krell (around 1900)
1998	Untergeis	Ev. church		I / P	11	Restoration of the organ by Johann Wilhelm Schmerbach the Middle
1998-1999	Hiking life	Saint Peter's Church		II / P	23	Restoration of the organ by Johann Georg Schröter (1724); 5 complete registers and 9 partially preserved, rest of the reconstruction
2001	Hülfensberg	Franciscan monastery, "Christ the Redeemer"		III / P	36	New building with electric actions
2001	Schleid (Rhön)	Maria Snow		II / P	18th	Restoration of the organ by Barthel Brünner (1748) and Heinrich Hahner (1878)
2002	Molschleben	St. Peter and Paul		II / P	18th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Friedrich Schulze (1856)
2002	Riethnordhausen (near Erfurt)	St. Boniface Church		II / P	12	New building
2002	Bremen (Geisa)	Catholic Church		I / P	12	Restoration of the organ by Johann-Markus Oestreich (around 1800)
2003	Oesterbehringen	Christ Church		II / P	23	Restoration of the organ by Valentin Knauf (1827)
2001-2004	Seamounts	St. George Church		II / P	30th	Restoration of the organ by Ernst Ludwig Hesse (1824)
2004	Vacha	Johanneskirche		II / P	26th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Michael Holland (1831)
2004	Seebach	St. Johannis		II / P	23	Restoration of the organ by Wilhelm Rühlmann (1909)
2004	Rossbach (Hünfeld)	Assumption Day		II / P	16	Restoration of the Euler brothers' organ (1892)
2004	Dermbach	Holy Trinity		II / P	22nd	New building in the baroque housing by Johann Casper Beck (1754)
2005	Laucha	St. Kilians Church		II / P	14th	Restoration of the organ by Hugo Böhm (1888, masterpiece)
2005	Rühstädt	Village church		I / P	10	Reconstruction of the organ by Joachim Wagner (1738), the case and some stops preserved, the rest of the reconstruction
2005	Meimbressen	Ev. church		II / P	22nd	New building in a baroque housing
2005	Graefenroda	St. Laurence		II / P	24	Restoration / reconstruction of the organ by Johann Anton Weise (1736)
2001-2006	Kaltenlengsfeld	Evang. church		II / P	22nd	Restoration of the organ by Johann Caspar Rommel (1755–1757)
2006	Uchenhofen	Village church		I / P	10	New building in the style of Johann-Markus Oestreich
2006	Election angle	St. Gotthard		II / P	21st	Restoration of the organ by Georg Andreas and Ernst Siegfried Hesse (1829)
2006	Kerstlingerode	Ev.-luth. Church of St. John		II / P	13	Restoration of the organ by Carl Heyder (1860)
2006	Fell	City Church		II / P	24	Restoration of the Trampeli organ (1807)
2006	Dippach	St. Catherine Church		I / P	13	Restoration of the organ by Friedrich Wilhelm Holland (around 1850)
2007	Burghaun	Assumption Day		II / P	20th	Restoration of the organ by the Euler brothers (1878)
2007	Wickerstedt	St. Vitus		II / P	12	Restoration of the organ by Johann Christian Adam Gerhard (1835)
2007	Twiste (twist valley)	St. Vitus		II / P	12	Restoration of the organ by Jacob Vogt (1862) in collaboration with Wilhelm Rühle
2008	Niedergründau	Mountain church		II / P	31	Restoration of the organ by Georg Franz and Wilhelm August Ratzmann (1839)
2008 and 2014	Sömmerda	St. Boniface		II / P	29	Restoration of the organ by Johann Georg Krippendorf (1701–1709)
2008	Schwabhausen	Trinity Church		II / P	20th	Restoration of the organ by Georg Franz Ratzmann (1836)
2008	Flea Seligenthal	Flea Church		II / P	27	Restoration of the organ by Johann-Markus Oestreich (1789)
2007-2009	Heidelbach (Alsfeld)	Ev. church		I / P	12	Restoration of the organ by Johann Hartmann Bernhard (1817–1818)
2009	Henfstädt	Henfstädt village church		I / P	11	Restoration of the organ by Johann Valentin Nößler (1747)
2009	Alsberg	Holy cross		I / P	13	Restoration of the organ by Fritz Clewing (1893)
2009	Langenselbold	Ev. church		II / P	32	New building with double registration, brochure draft by Aaron Werbick
2009	Kleinfurra	St. Anne		II / P	13	Restoration of the organ by Wilhelm Rühlmann (1911)
2010	Oßmannstedt	St. Peter Church		II / P	21st	Restoration of the organ by Johann Benjamin Witzmann (1810)
2011	Weimar	Sacred Heart Church		III / P	59	New building
2012	Worbis	Antonius Church		III / P	35	New building / reconstruction behind the historical prospectus by Adam Öhninger (1696), modified mid-tone tuning
2016	Billerbeck	Provost church of St. Lutgerus		IV / P	11	New construction of the choir organ, only playable from the general console
2018/1019	Large oaks	Ev. church		I / P	11	Restoration of the organ by Philipp Ernst Wegmann (1771)

literature

• Felix Friedrich, Eberhard Kneipel: Organs in Thuringia - A travel guide (=  242nd publication of the Society of Organ Friends ). 2nd Edition. Kamprad, Altenburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-930550-67-8 .
• Bernhard Kutter: Orgelbaugesellschaft Waltershausen GbR . In: Thuringian Organ Journal . 1994, p. 31-33 .
• 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. 323-324 .
• Franz Liszt Memorial Organ May 8, 2011 (= chapter including a disposition of the organ) . In: Christoph Stölzl and Wolfram Huschke (eds.): Réminiscences à Liszt. Weimar 2011 . Without ISBN. Liszt School of Music Weimar , Weimar 2011, p. 111-128 (total: 256) .

Web links

• Official website of Orgelbau Waltershausen
• Festschrift for the company's 20th anniversary (list of works on p. 12–18) (PDF file; 2 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Company history. Retrieved May 9, 2019 . 
2. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area. 2009, pp. 323-324.
3. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area. 2009, p. 175.
4. ↑ Friedrich, Kneipel: Organs in Thuringia. 2010, p. 74.
5. ↑ Friedrich, Kneipel: Organs in Thuringia. 2010, p. 63.
6. ↑ Friedrich, Kneipel: Organs in Thuringia. 2010, p. 71.
7. ↑ Organ in Untergeis. Retrieved May 9, 2019 . 
8. ^ Organ in Wandersleben. Retrieved May 9, 2019 . 
9. ^ Organ in Bremen at Geisa. Retrieved May 9, 2019 . 
10. ↑ organ in rühstädt , accessed on May 9 of 2019.
11. ↑ Festschrift Orgelbau Waltershausen. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .  Pp. 26–27 (PDF file).
12. ↑ on Kaltenlengsfeld , accessed on May 9, 2019.
13. ^ Organ in Burghaun , accessed on May 9, 2019.
14. ^ Organ in Niedergründau , accessed on May 9, 2019.
15. ^ Organ in Bremen at Geisa. Retrieved May 9, 2019 .  .
16. ^ Organ in Heidelbach. Retrieved May 9, 2019 . 
17. ^ Organ in Oßmannstedt. Retrieved May 9, 2019 . 
18. ^ Organ in Weimar, Herz Jesu , accessed on May 9, 2019.
19. ↑ Source: https://deutsche-liszt-gesellschaft.de/images/archiv/liszt-nachrichten/anders/LN_16_17_10-2012_3c.pdf , page 4, accessed on May 12, 2019