Rohlfing (organ builder)

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Rohlfing is the surname of a German family of organ builders in Osnabrück and Quakenbrück .

history

The founder was Johann Christian Rohlfing (1793–1867), whose four sons were also organ and piano builders: Johann Anton Heinrich (1821–1886), Wilhelm Gerhard, who moved to the USA in 1852, Christian Friedrich (1833–1904) and the piano maker Hermann Friedrich († 1905). The oldest Johann Anton Heinrich founded his own workshop in Osnabrück in 1845. When his brothers joined in 1864, the company, which built both organs and pianos, traded under the name "Gebrüder Rohlfing".

Anton Franz Schmid (1765–1846), who established an organ workshop in Quakenbrück in 1790, was the brother of Gerhard Janssen Schmid and the father-in-law of Johann Christian Rohlfing. The Oldenburg workshop, which Schmid's grandson Johann Martin Schmid continued, was taken over by Rohlfing in 1919.

Christian Friedrich's sons Christian Ludwig (1865–1934) Albert Anton Eberhard (1866–1933) continued their father's business. In 1927 the first specialized in organ building, the second in piano building. Christian Ludwig's son Heinrich (1903–1969) joined the company in 1929 and took over the rebuilding after the Second World War. Matthias Kreienbrink , who was a partner from 1951, took over the company in 1955. By 1955, 260 new organs had been built and rebuilt.

Heinrich Rohlfing set up his own workshop in Natbergen in 1957 , which was passed on to Johannes Wolfram in 1968.

From today's perspective, numerous new buildings are criticized, especially from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Often the previous organs were disposed of with their historical substance. At most, the old prospectuses remained , behind which a new plant was built. As a rule, pneumatic instruments did not have a long service life, so that most of the Rohlfing organs have been replaced today.

List of works (selection)

year place church image Manuals register Remarks
1860 Loxten (Nortrup) Dorotheenkirche (Nortrup) I / P 6-8 Replaced in 1903
1864/1916 Melle St. Petri Father organ Melle.JPG III / P 33 major reconstruction of the organ by Christian Vater (1724); Blank register not preserved
1868 Plate (Lüchow) St. Mary
Church Plate Organ.jpg
 30th Repair by organ builder Friedrich Fleiter
1872-1877 Weener Evangelical Reformed Church Weener Ref Organ.jpg II / P 23 thorough reconstruction of the Schnitger-Wenthin organ (1710/1782) from III / P / 37 to II / P / 23; 1906/07 Replacement of 8 other old registers → organ
1877 bad Bentheim reformed Church II / P 17th New building with mechanical cone drawer; Except for the prospect pipes, which had to be ceded during World War I, completely preserved
1881 Freren reformed Church I / P 11 New building behind the prospectus by Hinrich Klausing (1699); not received
1882 Lengerich reformed Church II / P 12
1884-1885 Visquard Visquard Church Visquard Church Organ.jpg II / P 15th New building with mechanical cone drawer behind the old prospectus (before 1680); not received
1885 Driever reformed Church 4722342 Driever Organ.jpg I / P 10 almost completely preserved
1885-1888 Vellage Vellager Church Vellage church organ loft.jpg I / P 6th largely preserved
1892 Lienen - Kattenvenne Protestant church I / P 12 pneumatic membrane drawers ; Except for the prospect pipes, which had to be ceded during World War I, completely preserved
1906 Weenermoor Weenermoorer Church Weenermoor Church (2) .jpg II / P 10 pneumatic; completely preserved
1907 Mountains (Lower Saxony) Luther Church II / P 13 pneumatic action, pocket store
? Because on the Rhine Church of the Good Shepherd II / P 33 electropneumatic action and cone chest ; shut down during World War II; Acquired used by Heinrich Rohlfing in 1960
1915 Landscape polder Landscape polder church Landscape polder organ.jpg I / p 8th New building behind the prospectus by Gerd Sieben Janssen (1814); not received
1930 Emden Old Reformed Church I / p 3 Destroyed in 1944
1930 Neuenhaus reformed Church II / P 18? New building behind the prospectus by Georg Heinrich Quellhorst (1822/23)
1932 Wedringen Church of Our Lady
1935 Esklum Esklumer Church Esklum Organ.jpg I / P 7th New building behind the prospectus by Gerd Sieben Janssen (1855); get a register
1941 Own St. Paul II / P 19th originally built by Heinrich Rohlfing for the University of Munich with an electric slider drawer Set up in Bottrop in 1953; Renovated in 1983 and 1998 by Kreienbrink, new register with electric cone shop; 15 of 19 registers preserved

literature

  • Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 .
  • Hannalore Reuter: Historic organs in Westphalia-Lippe . Ardey-Verlag, Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-87023-245-0 .
  • Friedrich Karl Rohlfing: 150 years of the Rohlfing brothers . Osnabrück 1940.
  • Fritz Schild: Monument organs. Documentation of the restoration by organ building guides 1974-1991 . Florian Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2005, ISBN 978-3-7959-0862-1 (2 parts: Backmoor-Groothusen, Hage-Wiesens).
  • Winfried Topp: catalog raisonné of the organ building company Rohlfing . In: Acta Organologica . tape 19 , 1987, pp. 157-178 .
  • Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden. 1995, p. 139.
  2. ↑ Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden. 1995, p. 136 f.
  3. ^ A b Orgelbau Kreienbrink: The history of the Kreienbrink workshop , as seen on February 24, 2012.
  4. ↑ Vogel u. a .: organs in Lower Saxony. 1997, pp. 192, 214, 274.
  5. ^ Organ in Nortrup-Loxten , seen on February 24, 2012.
  6. ↑ Vogel u. a .: organs in Lower Saxony. 1997, p. 214.
  7. ↑ Vogel u. a .: organs in Lower Saxony. 1997, p. 192.
  8. ↑ See the restoration report from Schild: Denkmal-Orgeln. 2005, pp. 58-71.
  9. ↑ Vogel u. a .: organs in Lower Saxony. 1997, p. 152.
  10. ^ Organ in Visquard , seen on February 24, 2012.
  11. ↑ Reuter: Historical organs in Westphalia-Lippe. 2006, p. 205.
  12. ^ Organ in Weil am Rhein , seen on February 24, 2012.
  13. ^ Organ in Landschaftspolder , seen on February 24, 2012.
  14. ↑ Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden. 1995, p. 419.
  15. ^ Organ in Esklum , seen on February 24, 2012.
  16. ↑ Reuter: Historical organs in Westphalia-Lippe. 2006, p. 73.