Organs of the Bergstedt church

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Organs of the Bergstedt church
Kberg schnitger organ.jpg
General
alternative name Schnitger organ, Hamburg-Bergstedt
place Bergstedt Church
Organ builder Arp Schnitger
Construction year 1686 or later
Last renovation / restoration 1960/1961 Franz Grollmann
epoch Baroque
Organ landscape Hamburg
Technical specifications
Number of registers 8th
Number of rows of pipes 11
Number of manuals 1
Tone tract Mechanically
Register action Mechanically

The organs of the Bergstedt Church (St. Maria and Willehadus) in Hamburg-Bergstedt are two instruments: the small organ by Arp Schnitger next to the altar and the main organ by Johannes Rohlf from 2014 on the west gallery. The positive built by Schnitger is one of his smallest organs and was possibly originally a house organ. The back-playing instrument without a pedal now has eight registers , three of which have been preserved. The case, wind chest and keyboard are also original from Schnitger . The Rohlf organ has 17 registers, which are divided into two manuals and a pedal.

Schnitger organ

New building by Schnitger from 1686

The organ has been located next to the altar since 1961

The 13th century Bergstedt church was badly damaged by Danish troops in 1686. It is unclear when Schnitger's positive organ got into the church after the restoration of the church, and its origin as a house organ, which was bought by the church at a later date, is conceivable. The instrument stood on the west gallery until 1960.

The five-part brochure is flat. The large central field is flanked by two-storey sections, which are divided by a bar. The side panels are raised above small, unadorned panels. There were probably carvings here originally; possibly the small rectangular carved ornament above the central tower is part of the lost jewelry. All seven pipe fields are finished with gold-plated carvings at the top and bottom, stylistically between early and high baroque. The coffered lower case has two panels and above it a cornice with a curved frieze . The frieze in the upper cornice is designed in a similar way, comparable to Schnitger's organ in the Portuguese Maia de Moreia from 1701. The instrument is crowned by a secondary, flat triangular gable made of pine wood without panels.

The design of the prospectus of the positive organ in Bergstedt shows similarities with the former organ of the now secularized church in Eppenhuizen (municipality of Eemsmond , Prov. Groningen), which itself could possibly have been the work of Schnitger's workshop.

Later work

The oak casing indicates later modifications, such as the miter cuts on the profile strips of the two-storey pipe fields, the triangular gable, the empty panels under the side fields and the carved ornament above the central field. So far there is hardly any reliable information about the further history of the Bergstedt organ. The organ files cannot be found.

In the course of the centuries the organ has undergone major changes in appearance and disposition. In 1875 Christian Heinrich Wolfsteller rebuilt the instrument. When the parish bought a new organ from EF Walcker on the west gallery in 1961 , Franz Grollmann moved the Schnitger organ to the altar area at ground level. Grollmann replaced the non-original registers with new ones and restored the positive.

Disposition since 1961

Manual CDE – c 3
1. Principal B / D 4 ′ G
2. Gedackt B / D 8th' S.
3. recorder 4 ′ S.
4th Octave 2 ′ S.
5. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′ G
6th Mixture III G
7th Zimbel II G
8th. shelf 8th' G
S = Schnitger (1686)
G = Grollmann (1961)

Technical specifications

  • 8 registers, 11 rows of pipes
  • Wind chest : chromatic (Schnitger)
  • Action:
    • Keyboard (Schnitger)
    • Tone action: mechanical (Schnitger)
    • Stop action: mechanical (Schnitger)
  • Mood :
Organs of the Bergstedt church
General
alternative name Rohlf organ, Hamburg-Bergstedt
place Bergstedt Church
Organ builder Johannes Rohlf
Construction year 2014
epoch Modern
Organ landscape Hamburg
Illustrations
Bergstedt Church Organ Rohlf.jpg
Technical specifications
Number of registers 17th
Number of rows of pipes 19th
Number of manuals 2
Tone tract Mechanically
Register action Mechanically

Rohlf organ

New building by Rohlf 2014

At Easter 2014, the Johannes Rohlf company completed the large organ on the west gallery as Opus 190. The instrument is housed in two housings. In front is the positive, which has a front game table . Behind it, the main plant is set up in a separate housing that is 1.20 meters higher than the housing of the positive. The lower height for the main work can be compensated for by accommodating the action including the wave boards in a pedestal between the two works. In this way, the height is sufficient for the installation of a principal in an eight-foot position.

The instrument has 17 registers, which are divided into two manuals and pedal. Four stops in the pedal are transmissions from the main work. Reed flute 8 ', octave 4' and sub-bass 16 '(except for the five deepest pipes) are made entirely of lead, Gedackt 8' and bassoon 16 'are made of spruce, the flute 4' is made of oak. The pipes in the prospectus have a tin content of 82%, the other registers a tin content of 52%.

Disposition since 2014

The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. Octave 4 ′
4th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
5. Octave 2 ′
6th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
7th Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II Positive C-g 3
9. Dumped 8th'
10. Praestant 4 ′
11. flute 4 ′
12. Octave 2 ′
13. recorder 2 ′
14th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Dulcian 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
16. Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass (from HW) 8th'
Hollow flute (from HW) 8th'
Octave (from HW) 4 ′
Trumpet (from HW) 8th'
17th bassoon 16 ′

literature

  • Jan von Busch: The lost Schreiber organ in Koldenbüttel and its organ-building organists. In: Ars Organi . Volume 66, Issue 2, June 2018, pp. 73–82 ( 73–76 online , PDF).
  • Cornelius H. Edskes , Harald Vogel : Arp Schnitger and his work (=  241st publication by the Society of Organ Friends ). 2nd Edition. Hauschild, Bremen 2013, ISBN 978-3-89757-525-7 , pp. 33, 160 .
  • Gustav Fock : Arp Schnitger and his school. A contribution to the history of organ building in the North and Baltic Sea coast areas . Bärenreiter, Kassel 1974, ISBN 3-7618-0261-7 , p. 66, 76 .
  • Günter Seggermann, Alexander Steinhilber, Hans-Jürgen Wulf: The organs in Hamburg . Ludwig, Kiel 2019, ISBN 978-3-86935-366-1 , pp. 20 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Schnitger biographer Siwert Meijer passed on Schnitger's statement that he built "1687 op den Hamburger berg een small organ" (Edskes / Vogel 2013, pp. 219, 226). The hypothesis presented by Edskes and Vogel as a fact that the organ in Bergstedt is this organ has since been refuted by Jan von Busch (Busch 2018, pp. 78-80.) Von Busch confirms through archival finds that the Schnitger- Researcher Gustav Fock correctly identified the organ on the "Hamburger Berg" with the Schnitger organ in the St. Pauli Church (Hamburg-Altona-Altstadt) (cf. Fock 1974, p. 66). However, this organ was replaced by Otto Diedrich Richborn in 1718–1721 .
  2. ↑ a b Edskes, Vogel: Arp Schnitger and his work. 2nd edition 2013, p. 33.
  3. ↑ Victor Timmer: 'Een zeer aftandsch instrument'. Uit Groninger kerken huispijporgels (en related instruments). In: Het Orgel . Volume 62, 2018, Issue 1, pp. 20–33 (on Eppenhuizen: pp. 21–24). There is also a drawing (19th century) of the former Eppenhuizen organ.
  4. ↑ a b Seggermann: The organs in Hamburg. 2019, p. 20.
  5. ^ Rohlf Organ , accessed on March 11, 2015.
  6. ↑ Disposition of the Rohlf organ , accessed on March 11, 2015.
  7. ↑ Info on the website of the organ builder Rohlf . Retrieved August 11, 2014.

Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 19.9 ″  N , 10 ° 7 ′ 34.8 ″  E