The main organ of the Nikolaikirche on the west gallery was built in 1908 by Wilhelm Rühlmann . It originally had 44 registers with three manuals . The prospectus is by Johann Christian Angermann from 1727, the housing of the pedal towers was added between 1737 and 1741 for the successor organ by Joachim Wagner . In 1929 a Rückpositiv with five votes was added by the company W. Sauer . After some changes, the organ was reconstructed back to its 1908 state from 2017 to 2019.
Disposition
The organ has 44 registers from 1908 and five registers from 1929 with three manuals and pedal . The action is pneumatic.
I main work C – c 4
1.
Principal
16 ′
2.
Bordon
16 ′
3.
Principal
8th'
4th
Viol
8th'
5.
Hollow flute
8th'
6th
Gemshorn
8th'
7th
Dumped
8th'
8th.
Octave
4 '
9.
Flauto Harm.
4 ′
10.
Rauschquinta II
11.
Cornett III
12.
Mixture IV-V
13.
Trumpet
8th'
II Positive C-c 4
14th
Dumped
16 ′
15th
Violin principal
8th'
16.
Double flute
8th'
17th
Salicional
8th'
18th
Flauto traverso
8th'
19th
Dolce
8th'
20th
Principal
4 ′
21st
Flauto amabile
4 ′
22nd
Forest flute
2 ′
23.
Mixture IV
24.
Clarinet
8th'
III Swell C – c 4
25th
Lovely Gedackt
16 ′
26th
Principal
8th'
27.
Portal flute
8th'
28.
Aeoline
8th'
29
Vox celestre
8th'
30th
Salicet
4 ′
31.
Reed flute
4 ′
32.
Harmonica aetherea III
33.
oboe
8th'
Pedal C – g 1
34.
Principal
16 '
35.
Sub bass
16 ′
36.
Violon
16 ′
37.
Dacked bass
16 ′
38.
Fifth
10 2 ⁄ 3 ′
39.
Octave bass
8th'
40.
cello
8th'
41.
Dulciana
8th'
42.
Octave
4 ′
43.
trombone
16 ′
44.
Trumpet
8th'
I Ruckpositiv (1928) C – c 4
45.
Silent
8th'
46.
Principal
4 '
47.
Octave
2 '
48.
Sif flute
1'
49.
Sesquialtra II
Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, super-octave coupling II, sub-octave coupling III; I / P, II / P, III / P
Playing aids : swell kicks for swell. Free combination. Roller.
The positive in the altar area was built by Christoph Werner around 1657 . It was reconstructed from 2017 to 2018 by Karl Schuke in the original disposition. It has three registers (Gedackt 8 ', Flute 4', Principal 2 ') and is the oldest surviving organ in Brandenburg. The mood is mid-tone .
The organ in the Liebfrauenkirche was built by Joachim Wagner in 1737 and is his largest single-manual work that has survived. It was expanded in 1891 by Gustav Albert Friedrich from Wittenberg to include a Salicional 8 'and received a pedal belt. In 1938 and 1974, Alexander Schuke Orgelbau restored the instrument, followed by Karl Schuke in 2017 .
The construction of an organ for the monastery church is known from 1533. This was brought to the palace church in Halle in 1618 by Margrave Christian Wilhelm, where it burned in 1637.
Gottfried Wilhelm Baer built a new instrument from 1850 to 1851. This had 18 stops on two manuals and pedal . In 1996 the company Mitteldeutscher Orgelbau A. Voigt restored and reconstructed the organ and added the pedal register trombone 16 ′.
