Wegscheider organ workshop

The Wegscheider organ workshop in Dresden- Rähnitz is a company of the organ builder Kristian Wegscheider, which has existed since 1989 . To date, around 40 organs have been built and more than 60 restorations have been carried out.

history

Restored organ of the St. Nikolai Church (Stralsund)

The organ workshop was founded in Dresden in 1989 as a private company. Kristian Wegscheider, who was born in Ahrenshoop in 1954 , previously worked in a Barther cabinet maker after completing high school and military service in the NVA , and from 1975 to 1978 he completed vocational training as an organ builder in Dresden at the Jehmlich company . From 1976 to 1980 he took a distance learning course on the restoration of musical instruments at technical schools in Berlin and Leipzig . At the Jehmlich company he was organ restorer and head of the restoration department. In 1987 Wegscheider applied to the GDR authorities for approval to open his own workshop, which he opened in the spring of 1989 in Dresden's Alaunstrasse with initially two employees. Part of the time in between he bridged in the restoration workshop in the musical instrument museum of the University of Leipzig. The official start of work in his workshop was June 1, 1989.

In December 1990, Wegscheider received the master craftsman's certificate in response to a requirement from the trade office . His first order was a new building for the castle chapel of Allstedt Castle . In the summer of 1994 the workshop moved to Dresden-Hellerau . In 2007 the workshop employed ten people. The most important restorations of the Wegscheider company include the organ in the St. Nikolai Church (Stralsund) , the Stellwagen organ in Stralsund's Marienkirche , the Amalienorgel in the church Zur Happy News in Berlin-Karlshorst and the Silbermann organ in the Catholic church Hofkirche in Dresden.

Wegscheider was a staunch supporter of a replica of the former Gottfried Silbermann organ in the rebuilt Frauenkirche Dresden .

Innovations

Inspired by an organ from the American company Charles B. Fisk , Wegscheider began to execute some of his organs - including smaller instruments - in two temperaments so that they can be played either in a well-tempered Baroque or medium-tone Renaissance tuning. Since interventions in the sensitive and complicated playing structure with which Fisk enabled the change between two tunings seemed unsatisfactory, he constructed special loops and wind chests that allow the wind to flow to the pipes required for the respective tuning. This means that the stop action can be used to switch between the tunings, while the playing action is structured like a "normal" organ (with one tuning). He already provided his Opus 1 with a variable mood.

List of works

The list of new buildings is complete, the restoration a selection. The Roman number indicates the number of manuals, a capital "P" indicates an independent pedal, a lower-case "p" indicates an attached pedal and the Arabic number in the penultimate column indicates the number of sounding registers.

New buildings

year	opus	place	building	Manuals	register	Remarks
1990	1	Allstedt	Castle chapel	I.	8th	two temperatures
1992	7th	Dresden	Wegscheider organ workshop (loan instrument)	I.	1	lying positive with a register (Gedackt 8 ′)
1994	13	Halle (Saale)	Church music college	I.	2	lying positive (Gedackt 8 ′, flute 4 ′)
1994	15th	Frauenstein (Ore Mountains)	museum	I.	8th	Copy of the Bremen Silbermann positive
1995	17th	Frankfurt (Oder)	Güldendorf Church	I.	8th	Copy of the Bremen Silbermann positive with an oak case
1995	18th	Steinwedel at Lehrte	St. Petri	II / P	20th	New building in an old housing (17th century) using some registers by Johann Andreas Zuberbier (1769)
1995	21st	Dresden- Wilschdorf	Christophoruskirche	II / P	14th	two temperatures
1996	23	Cologne	University of Music, Wuppertal Department	I.	1	lying positive with a register (Gedackt 8 ′)
1996	24	Blankenburg (Harz)	Michaelstein Monastery	I.	1	lying positive with a register (Gedackt 8 ′)
1996	27	eat	Folkwang School	I.	1	lying positive with a register (Gedackt 8 ′)
1996	28	Guestrow	Güstrow Cathedral , Winter Church	I / P	15th	with timpani, glockenspiel, cymbal star, 2 cuckoo calls, drum, nightingale
1997	31	Dresden	Loschwitz Church	II / P	20th	second manual with alternating loops; Prospectus based on the non-preserved organ by Johann Christoph Leibner (1753)
1997	33	Dresden	Kreuzkirche	I.	1	lying positive with a register (Gedackt 8 ′)
1999	40	Ochsendorf (near Königslutter)	St. Stephani	I / P	9
1999	42	Friedersdorf (Mulde)	Evangelical village church	I / P	15th
2000	43	Büsingen on the Upper Rhine	St. Michael	II / P	15th	two tongue registers
2000	47	Dresden	Music college	I.	1	lying positive with a register (Gedackt 8 ′)
2000	48	Schwerin / Freiberg	Skobowsky (private)	I.	1	lying positive with a register
2000	49	Berlin	Michaelitz (private)	I.	1	lying positive with a register (Gedackt 8 ′), permanent loan
2001	50	Fintel	St. Anthony Church	II / P	16	romantic organ
2002	57	Bremen	Bremen Cathedral , choir organ	I / P	8th
2003	60	Cologne	Diakonie Michaelshoven	II / P	28	Organ in the Silbermann / Hildebrandt style ; 2017 sold to the Kunst Klang Church, Zurich
2004	62	Reinfeld (Holstein)	Matthias Claudius Church	II / P	21st	using the old positive case in the style of the 17th century
2005	66	Spenge	St. Martin's Church	II / P	17th	nine alternating loops, free-standing gaming table with a view of the altar
2005	69	Sereetz	Little ship of Christ	I / P	9
2006	68	Stuttgart	Music college	II / P	21st
2007	72	Freiburg in Breisgau	St. Ottilien	I.	6th	“Bohemian Positive ”, in collaboration with Dalibor Michek, Studenky (Czech Republic); Rental instrument that has been offered for sale; since 2017 in Freiburg-St. Ottilien
2006-2008	73	Lübeck-Travemünde	Reconciliation Church, Pomerania Center	II / P	14th
2008	74	Rainbach im Mühlkreis (Austria)	Parish church	I / P	9
2007-2008	75	Sacrow (Potsdam)	Heilandskirche	II / P	17th	with side game table
2008	77	Dresden	Kreuzkirche	I.	9	Altar positive, mobile chest organ with 9 registers and separate sub-bass
2009	78	Hafnarfjörður (Iceland)	Hafnarfjardarkirkja	II / P	11	with alternating loops
2008-2009	79	Linz (Austria)	Minorite Church	II / P	27	New building behind the old housing facade
2008-2009	82	Leipzig	Paulinum	I.	7th	Positive with transposition device
2010	86	Bohušov (Czech Republic)	St. Martin's Church	II / P	16	behind the existing organ case, free-standing console
2011	87	Roggenstein (Vohenstrauß)	St. Erhard Church	II / P	20th
2012	84	Jonkoping	Kristine Kyrka, choir organ	II / P	24	Upper work transposable
2012	91	Ahrenshoop	Schifferkirche Ahrenshoop	I / P	12	free-standing gaming table, three alternating loops
2013	83	Ritten - Unterinn	Catholic Church	II / P	30th
2013-2014	93	Łódź	Filharmonia Łódzka , baroque organ	III / P	37	as a supplement to the symphonic organ by Rieger behind a common prospectus
2015-2016		Ingolstadt	Münster To the Beautiful Our Lady , choir organ	III / P	45	Swallow's Nest Organ
2012–2013 / 2018	94	Danzig	Trinity Church	III / P	45	Reconstruction of the organ by Tobias Lehmann (1703) behind the preserved prospectus by Merten Friese (1618) together with Szymon Januszkiewicz in several construction phases
2019-2020		Stralsund	St. Jakobi Church	III / P	51	New building behind the historic prospectus by Christian Gottlieb Richter (1732–1741) in the Baroque style by Richter and Ernst Julius Marx (1783) → organ

Restorations (selection)

year	opus	place	building	Manuals	register	Remarks
1991	5	Pokrent	Pokrent village church	I.	7th	Restoration of the Christian Heinrich Wolfsteller organ from 1869
1995	19th	Freiberg in Saxony	Jakobikirche	II / P	20th	Restoration of the organ by Gottfried Silbermann (1717)
1997	29	Tiefenau	Castle chapel	I.	9	Restoration (technical system) and reconstruction (pipework) of the organ by Gottfried Silbermann (1728?)
1997	30th	Biederitz	Biederitz village church	II / P	12	Implementation and restoration of a Ladegast organ (1866) from Güstrow Cathedral
1997	32	Reinhardtsgrimma	Village church	II / P	20th	Restoration of the organ by Gottfried Silbermann (1731)
1999-2002	39	Schwerin	Schwerin, Paulskirche	II / P	31	Restoration of the organ by Friedrich Friese III (1869)
2001-2002	56	Dresden	Catholic court church	III / P	47	together with Jehmlich restoration of the organ by Gottfried Silbermann (1750–1753)
2003-2006	64	Stralsund	St. Nicholas Church	III / P	56	together with Klais restoration and reconstruction of the organ by Carl August Buchholz (1841) → Organ of the St. Nikolai Church (Stralsund)
1999-2008	67	Stralsund	St. Mary's Church	III / P	51	Restoration of the organ by Friedrich Stellwagen (1659) → Organs of the St. Marien Church (Stralsund)
2006-2007	71	Freiberg in Saxony	City Church of St. Petri	II / P	32	together with Jehmlich restoration of the organ by Gottfried Silbermann (1733–1735) → organ
2009-2010	80	Berlin-Karlshorst	To the good news	II / P	22nd	Restoration of the organ by Migendt and Marx (1755) → Organ of the parish church For the good news
2010-2011	88	Zurow	Zurow village church	I / P	9 + 1 transmission	Restoration of the organ by Christoph Erdmann Vogel (built in 1737 as a Rückpositiv for the Nikolaikirche (Wismar) ) and Friedrich Wilhelm Winzer (1861)
2010-2013	90	Pr. Holland	Parish Church of St. Bartholomew	II / P	36	Restoration / reconstruction of the organ by Andreas Hildebrandt (1717–1719), restoration of the condition from 1719 → Organ of the Bartholomäuskirche Pasłęk