View of the north gallery with neo-Gothic tracery window
Original console main organ, new organ bench
In the course of the planning for the new church in 1903/1904, the new organ was also designed. For this purpose, a separate organ chamber was built on the southern gallery, in which the late Romantic organ work (II + P / 24) is built as Opus 561 by the builder company. The organ's prospectus is equipped with silent pipes, the unusual design of the prospectus corresponds to the tracery design of the church window opposite.
Restoration 1985 by Emil Hammer Orgelbau
Except for two simple cleanings every 30 years, no changes or repairs have been made since it was built, so that the first failures of the pneumatic control occurred in the 1970s, which by the end of the decade made the instrument almost unplayable.
In 1980 the first considerations were made to build a new organ with slider chests, and a considerable number of the existing stops were to be taken over. The organ building company Emil Hammer Orgelbau, who was involved in the deliberations, suggested in the course of the new conception that the organ, which was in its almost completely unchanged original condition, also be restored in order to preserve the unity of sound and space of the then newly restored church. The proposal was accepted by the client.
During the restoration, special emphasis was placed on not making any conceptual changes (neither tonally nor technically) to the organ, but rather to limit the restoration to its original condition. Only the originally fixed connection of the Cornett III with the concert flute and flauto dolce was broken. Furthermore, the register of the Kalkanten call has been reused, it serves to switch the tremulant on and off. With the re-inauguration on September 1, 1985, the restoration of the unique historical instrument - one of the few unchanged evidence of pneumatic organs from the turn of the century - was completed.
↑ Fixed combinations in the original order as a push button under the first manual, triggering each other, general release as a pin below the gaming table
↑ Pipe switch and Kalkantruf as well as all coupling switches are built as register rockers, these have a white-ground porcelain medallion with red writing
Technical specifications
24 registers, 1,520 pipes
Wind pressure in the individual plants in 90 mm water column .
The choir organ (2 + P / 11) was set up in 1982 in the south side wall in a niche in the choir room . It is Opus 1825 of the Hammer workshop and is arranged in baroque style. The fully mechanical slider chest organ can be heard both in the church and in the mourning hall (former, historical choir room). The organ acceptance took place on May 29, 1982.
The disposition was subsequently expanded, the 2nd manual was supplemented by the register Holzgedackt 8 'and a tremulant.
Christian Eickhoff: The organ of the Luther Church in Dortmund-Asseln . In: Alfred Reichling (Ed.): Acta Organologica . tape22 . Merseburger Berlin GmbH, Kassel 1991, ISBN 3-87537-245-X , p.291-298 .
