Rudolf Janke

Organ building Janke
legal form	GmbH, sole proprietorship from 2010
founding	1958
Seat	Bovenden
management	Rudolf Janke
Branch	Musical instrument making

Janke in his workshop in Bovenden (around 1995)

Organ workshop in Bovenden in the 1970s

Rudolf Janke (born December 2, 1930 in Göttingen ) is a German organ builder in Bovenden , who became known in Northern Germany for his consistent restoration practice of historical organs . In addition, the company has created noteworthy new buildings, many of which are based on models of the North German baroque organ.

Life

Janke began an organ building apprenticeship with Paul Ott in 1948 , which he completed in 1952 with the journeyman's examination as an organ builder in Hanover . In 1956 he attended the master school in Ludwigsburg and continued to work with Paul Ott until then. This was followed by a one-year stay abroad at Orgelbau Mårtensson in Lund, Sweden . In 1957 Janke began producing reed parts for other organ building companies in Veckerhagen . In 1958 the master craftsman examination followed in Kassel . In the same year he opened his own workshop in Gertenbach . In 1963 the workshop was relocated to Bovenden, where it was based until October 2009. The company, which has been based in Bühle (Northeim) since then , only carries out maintenance work and small renovations.

From 1958 to 1979 Janke was first married to Elfriede geb. Zerbin (1929–1979) married when the company was in the start-up phase. Helga Janke has been born in 1981. Luhnen his wife, who also became a partner in the company, which was converted into a GmbH in the mid-1980s during the period of greatest prosperity . His son Reiner Janke is also an organ builder and voicer, but did not continue his father's business.

Works

Janke based himself on the baroque and classicist organ building in northern and central Germany and almost without exception used slider chests with mechanical action .

Similar to the Ott student Jürgen Ahrend , Janke continued to develop Ott’s principles in the core, for example, as far as basic questions such as the fully mechanical action and often neo-baroque dispositions are concerned. But he also consistently developed this style. So he no longer used the gaming cupboards typical for Ott with inclined register panels and gaming cupboard doors, but almost always the gaming tables based on baroque models with protruding manuals. The dispositions of the new buildings are often clearly (neo) baroque in design, possibly expanded to include those with bow registers that were already used in late baroque organs. There are also convincing restorations of classical organ structures. With regard to the wind pressure, which was often set too low by Ott, Janke used wind pressures that were based on the original values. Janke also created unequal tunings , for the first time in 1961 (op. 9), and regularly from the early 1970s onwards, since he also considers them more appropriate than equal-stage music for romantic organ music. Since then, all of his organs have weight-loaded bellows. Janke advocates a differentiated reassessment of organ movement and advocates mechanical sliding chests and a smooth mechanical action mechanism without octave couplings and electrical couplings. In addition, he recommends mechanical stop action, a flexible but stable wind supply, balanced and neither too steep nor too fundamentally toned dispositions, wide bore 16- and 8-foot reeds as well as modern brochures that are neither historicizing nor fashionable. In contrast to the “ intonation executed with ingenious superficiality ” by Ott and others, a careful intonation, which also uses core stitches as urgently necessary, is decisive . Existing neo-baroque organs could be considerably improved in terms of their tonal breadth, especially if the disposition and the scale lengths were changed, through thorough renovations and a new intonation.

List of works

Except for the two organs shown in Berea (op. 72) and Bad Sachsa (No. 36), all organs have a mechanical playing and register action . All except the organ in Lonau (No. 26) have mechanical slide chests.

The following catalog of works is complete. The size of the instruments is indicated in the sixth column by the number of manuals and the number of sounding registers in the seventh column. A capital “P” stands for an independent pedal, a lowercase “p” for an attached pedal.

New buildings

year	opus	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1958	1	Reinhardshagen	Ev.-free church local community		II / P	10
1958	2	Bovenden	Rudolf Janke		I.	3	Privately owned
1960	3	Arnsberg	Cemetery chapel		I / p	5
1960	4th	Emmerthal- Borry	Ev. church		I / p	5	Behind the historical prospectus from the 19th century
1960	5	Weeze	Ev. church		II / P	7th
1960	6th	Hellental	Ev.-luth. Parish		I / p	4th
1960	7th	Kranenburg	Ev. church		II / P	8th
1960	8th	Duisburg-Rheinhausen- Hochemmerich	Ev. Parish		I.	4th
1961	9	Spiekeroog	Old island church		II / p	5	Unequal temperature
1961	10	Eixe	Ev.-luth. church		I / p	5
1961	11	Dollbergen	Ev.-luth. Parish		I / p	5
1962	12	Berkum (Peine)	Ev.-luth. chapel		I / p	5
1962	13	Hann. Münden	St. Aegidien		II / P	20th	Sold to Lindau (Bodensee)
1962	14th	Einbeck	Ev.-free church local community		II / P	12
1962	15th	Friedland- Lichtenhagen	Ev.-luth. church		I / p	4th
1962	16	Friedland- Ludolfshausen	Ev.-luth. church		I / p	4th
1962	17th	Adelebsen- Wibbecke	Ev.-luth. church		I / p	4th
1962	18th	Emmerthal- Voremberg	Ev.-luth. church		I / P	6th
1962	19th	Rahe (Aurich)	Ev. Free Church Congregation		I.	4th	Positively originally conceived as an interim organ for another church and sold in 1972; Acquired second-hand from Aurich-Rahe in 1977; combines old registers of various organs into one whole
1963	20th	Hohnstedt	Martini Church		II / P	20th	Behind historical housing by Johann Andreas Graff (1717/1718)
1963	21st	Eimen preselection	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	9
1964	22nd	Hann. Münden- Hermannshagen	Matthew Church		II / P	18th	In 2013 transferred to St. Michael in Wietze (photo) and installed
1964	23	Heinsen	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	13
1964	24	Goettingen	St. Jacobi		I.	6th	Sold to Bad Lauterberg / St. Andreas Church
1964-1965	25th	Spiekeroog	New island church		II / P	18th	With Spanish trumpets
1964	26th	Bevern -Reileifzen	Ev.-luth. chapel		I / p	4th
1965	27	Dohnsen	Ev.-luth. chapel		I / p	4th
1965	28	Kitzingen- Repperndorf	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	10
1965	29	Hameln- Hastenbeck	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	18th	Behind the historical prospectus (with original principal 8 ′) of an unknown organ builder (1703, Hinrich Klausing ?)
1965	30th	Goettingen	Kreuzkirche		II / P	26th	with a solitary pedal tower
1965/1973	31/71	Bovenden- Reyershausen	Ev.-ref. church		I / P	5	1973 Extension of the own used positive
1965	32	Bovenden	Rudolf Janke		I / p	4th	Rental organ
1966	33	Northeim - Höckelheim	Ev.-luth. Marienkirche		II / P	10
1966	34	Gifhorn -Wilsche	Ev.-luth. church		I / p	4th
1966	35	Hann.-Münden- Mielenhausen	Ev.-luth. church		I / p	4th
1966	36	Lenne	Ev.-luth. Parish		I / p	5
1967	37	Katlenburg	Ev.-luth. Katlenburg Church		II / P	23	Behind the historical prospectus from the 19th century
1967	38	Einbeck- Vogelbeck	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	9
1967	39	Northeim	Corvinus Church		III / P	29	With mirror principal in the Rückpositiv
1967	40	Reinhausen (same)	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	16
1967	41	Friedland- Deiderode	Ev.-luth. church		I / P	9
1967	42	Hann. Münden- Oberode	Ev.-luth. chapel		I / P	7th
1967	43	Goettingen	Christophorus Church		II / P	(19) 8	Can still be expanded; Breastwork and Hauptwerk are in the left case, the pedals in the right; BW is not developed, also in the HW and pedal registers are still vacant.
1968	44	Helmstedt	St. Thomas Church		III / P	34	1985 addition of a breastwork
1968	45	Early	St. Martini		II / P	10
1968	46	Holzminden	St. Thomas Community Hall		I.	4th
1968-1970	47	Holzminden	Luther Church		III / P	34	Revised in 1993
1969	48	Golmbach	Ev.-luth. church		I / P	9
1969	49	Cadenberg	Ev.-luth. Parish		I / p	3
1969/2002	50	Göttingen -Himmelsruh	Stephanuskirche		III / P	26th	In 2002 expanded by four registers
1970	51	Friedland- Reiffenhausen	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	12	Behind the historical prospectus (front of the upper part) from the 18th century
1970	52	Gifhorn -Kästorf	Ev.-luth. Parish, cemetery chapel		I / p	5
1970	54	Herzberg am Harz	Ev.-luth. Christ Church		II / P	15th
1970	55	Wanna- Westerwanna	Ev.-luth. church		I / P	11
1970-1971	56	Norten-Hardenberg	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	15th
1971	53	Northeim	Apostle Church		II / P	20th	With Spanish trumpets; Pedal with flamed copper pipes
1971	57	Rose garden - blobs	Ev.-luth. church		I / P	8th
1971	58	Landolfshausen- Falkenhagen	Ev.-luth. church		I / p	4th
1971	59	Portland, Oregon	Margret Irwin		II / P	5
1971	60	Urbana (Illinois)	T. Thach. Robinson		I / p	5
1972	61	Bad Lauterberg	Paulus Church		II / P	15th
1972	62	Calberlah	Ev.-luth. church		I / P	5
1972	63	Emden	Ev. Free Church Congregation		II / P	13
1972	64	Isenbüttel	St. Mary's Church		II / P	20th	Behind a neo-Gothic prospect from the 19th century.
1972	65	Sandy (Oregon)	Olson, Elizabeth Residence		II / p	5
1973	66	Dallas ( Texas )	Christ Episcopal Church		II / P	17th
1973	67	Göttingen -Grone	Elderly Center		I / P	5	Originally for Northeim, private property
1973	68	Bremen - Hastedt	Old Hastedter Church		II / P	23
1973	69	Holzminden	Cemetery chapel		I.	4th
1973	70	Wiesens	Rental organ		I / p	5	Sold; current location unknown
1974	72	Berea (Ohio)	United Methodist Church		III / P	35	Electric stop action
1974	73	Toledo (Washington)	FM Stinson		II / P	6th
1974	74	Evanston (Illinois)	Wolfgang Rübsam		II / p	5	Privately owned
1975	75	Wirges	Privately owned		II / P	6th
1975	76	Berlin-Reinickendorf	St. Hedwig, cemetery		II / P	7th
1976	77	Hann. Münden	St. Blasii		I.	6th
1976	78	Schneverdingen	Peter and Paul Church		III / P	24
1977	79	Bad Pyrmont- Oesdorf	Petrikirche		III / P	30th
1978	80	Bad Pyrmont- Oesdorf	Petrikirche		I.	3
1978	81	Oese (Basdahl)	St. Christopher		I / P	6th
1978	82	Chamois (Gifhorn)	Ev.-luth. church		I / p	5
1978	83	Bremerhaven- Geestemünde	Ev. Parish, cemetery chapel		I / p	4th	Originally in the community hall Bürgerpark-Süd
1978	84	Kolbotn (Norway)	Cemetery chapel		I / p	4th
1979	85	los Angeles	Privately owned		II / P	11	Sold to Utah
1980	86	Borkum	Christ Church		II / P	16
1980	87	Neustadt am Rübenberge	Johanneskirche		II / P	14th	Originally for Hannover-Buchholz, Ev.-luth. Messiah Church
1981	88	Oldendorf (district of Stade)	St. Martin		II / P	15th	New building behind historical housing by Erasmus Bielfeldt / Dietrich Christoph Gloger (1730–33)
1982	89	Bellaire (Texas)	Presbyterian Church		II / P	17th	With mirror principal
1982	90	Kristiansand (Norway)	Ev.-luth. Free Church		II / P	17th	With mirror principal; identical to the instrument in Bellaire
1982	91	Lunde- Sirdal (Norway)	Lunde kirke		II / P	10
1983	92	Zasenbeck	St. John		I / p	5
1983	93	Otterstedt	Ev.-luth. church		I / P	12	Behind the historical prospectus from the 19th century
1984	94	Dallas (Texas)	Privately owned		II / P	11
1984	95	Meinersen	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	11	Behind the historical prospectus from the 18th century
1985	96	Walle (Aurich)	St. Luke		II / P	8th	Fixed on the second manual register 8 ′, cannot be switched off
1985	97	Langenhagen	St. Paul		I / P	8th
1985/1994	98	Goettingen	Ev.-free church local community		II / P	14th
1986	99	Nordholz	Ev.-luth. church		I / P	9
1987	100	Bad Pyrmont- Oesdorf	Petrikirche		I.	5
1987	101	Wiershausen	Ev.-luth. church		I / P	11	Behind the historical prospectus from the 19th century
1988	102	Bad Lauterberg	St. Andrew's Church		II / P	25th	Behind the historical prospectus by Johann Andreas Engelhardt (1859) and using other parts by Engelhardt
1989/1992/1994	103	Braunschweig -Weststadt	Emmaus Church		II / P	23
1989-1990	104	Bramsche	St. Martin		III / P	28	Behind the historical prospectus by Reinking (1656) and Wenthin (1826)
1990	105	Wiesbaden-Klarenthal	Ev. local community		II / P	10
1991	106	Rotenburg (Wümme)	Michaelskirche		II / P	14th
1991	107	Ballenhausen	Ev.-luth. church		I / P	8th	Behind the historical prospectus by JW Schmerbach the Elder. M. (1826)
1992	108	Schwüblingsen	Ev.-luth. church		I / p	4th
1992	109	Coppengrave	Ev.-luth. church		I / P	7th	Behind historical prospectus (1910)
1994	111	Hildesheim	Martin Luther Church		II / P	25th
1995	112	Rinteln	City Church		III / P	39	Enlargement reconstruction using older registers behind the prospectus, some of which may have been made by Adolph Compenius (1621), but which was changed significantly in the 18th and 20th centuries
1996	113	Taipei (Taiwan)	Private		II / P	3
1997	114	Buckeburg	Bückeburg City Church		III / P	47	Behind the reconstructed "Compenius Prospect" (1615–1617)
1997	115	Lauenförde	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	10
1998	116	Merxhausen	Ev.-luth. church		I / p	3
1998	117	Northeim -Bühle	House organ Janke		II / P	3
1999	118	Buntenbock	Village chapel		II / P	12	Using parts of a brochure from the 19th century.
2000	119	Ricklingen Castle	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	13	Behind the historical prospectus from the 18th century
2003	120	regensburg	Privately owned		II / P	3

Restorations

The following list lists all restorations carried out by Rudolf Janke, including major conversions. With the exception of one organ with an electrical stop action (No. 36 Bad Sachsa) and one with a mechanical cone chest (No. 26 Lonau), all the others have mechanical slide chests and mechanical stop action.

year	number	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1961	1	Dorste	Ev.-luth. church		II / P	16	Renovation of the organ by Johann Andreas Engelhardt (around 1850)
1964	2	Peas (Adelebsen)	St. Vitus		I / P	12	Restoration of the organ by Johann Dietrich Kuhlmann (1823/1824)
1964	3	Barlissen	St. Laurence		I / P	10	Restoration of the organ (around 1800)
1965	4th	Espol	Ev.-luth. chapel		I.	6th	Restoration of the organ (18th century)
1966	5	Löwenhagen	Ev.-luth. church		I / P	12	Restoration of the organ by Johann Stephan Heeren (1792)
1966	6th	Calberlah	Ev.-luth. chapel		I.	8th	Restoration of the organ from the Schnitger School (end of the 17th century)
1969	7th	Markoldendorf	Lady Chapel		I.	5	Restoration of the organ (18th century)
1969	8th	Mengershausen	Ev.-luth. church		I / P	14th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Wilhelm Schmerbach the Elder M. (1798)
1970	9	Cadenberg	St. Nicolai		II / P	28	Restoration of the organ by Dietrich Christoph Gloger (1764)
1974/1984	10	Varlose	St. Michael		I / P	14th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Stephan Heeren (1791); 1974 technical restoration, 1984 sound restoration and reconstruction
1975/1993	11	Herzberg am Harz	St. Nicolai		II / P	36	Restoration of the organ by Johann Andreas Engelhardt (1845); 1993 addition of two registers
1976/1985	12	Adelebsen	St. Martini		I / P	13	Restoration of the organ by Johann Stephan Heeren / Johann Dietrich Kuhlmann
1978-1979	13	Remels	St. Martin Church		II / p	15th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Friedrich Constabel and Hinrich Just Müller (1733/1782)
1980/1998	14th	Uslar	St. John's Church		II / P	27	Renovation of the organ by Balthasar Conrad Euler (1845) / Paul Ott (1936/1968) / Janke (1980)
1984	15th	Northeim	St. Sixti		III / P	52	Renovation of the organ by Paul Ott (1952–59) behind the historical prospectus by Johann Hinrich Gloger (1721–1732)
1985	16	Kvævemoen- Sirdal	Ev. church		I.	6th	Restoration of the Steinmeyer organ (1954)
1986	17th	Northeim	St. Blaise's Chapel		I.	3	Restoration of the organ by Paul Ott (around 1935)
1986	18th	Goettingen	St. Johannis Church (choir organ)		I / p	6th	Restoration of the organ by Paul Ott (1946)
1986	19th	Stedesdorf	St. Aegidien Church		I / p	9	Restoration of the organ by Valentin Ulrich Grotian (1696) and Arnold Rohlfs (1847–1849)
1987-1988	20th	Almstedt	Ev.-luth. church		I / P	13	Restoration of the organ by Johann Georg and Johann Conrad Müller (1746/1753)
1989	21st	Scharzfeld	St. Thomas Church		II / P	20th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Andreas Engelhardt (1855)
1989	22nd	Schmedenstedt	St. George		I / p	10	Restoration of the organ by Johann Conrad Müller (erected after 1800)
1989	23	Weende (Göttingen)	St. Petri		II / P	18th	Renovation of the organ by Carl Giesecke (1848), Paul Ott (1965) and Janke
1990	24	Goettingen	St. Albani		III / P	36	Renovation of the organ by Paul Ott (1964)
1992-1993	25th	Barbis	St. Petri		II / P	19th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Tobias Hansen (1759), Johann Andreas Engelhardt (1833) and Janke
1993	26th	Lonau	St. Michaelis		II / P	14th	Restoration of the organ by Louis Krell (1884)
1988/1993	27	Osterode am Harz	St. Jacobi (Castle Church)		II / P	26th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Andreas Engelhardt (1841)
1995	28	Hattorf am Harz	St. Pancras		II / P	20th	Renovation of the organ by Johann Tobias Hansen (1763, prospectus and some registers preserved), Friedrich Becker (19th century) and Paul Ott (1972)
1997	29	Sudheim	St. Nicolai		II / P	15th	Restoration of the organ by Philipp Furtwängler (1864)
1998	30th	Goettingen	Corvinus Church		II / P	21st	Renovation of the organ by Albrecht Frerichs (1974)
1999	31	Osterhagen	St. Martin's Church		II / P	17th	Restoration of the organ by Johann Andreas Engelhardt (1850); Housing not yet restored
1999	32	Göttingen- Nikolausberg	Monastery church		II / P	19th	Restoration conversion of the organ by JC Ahlbrecht (1830), which was supplemented by a new Rückpositiv
1999-2000	33	Goettingen	St. Johannis Church (large organ)		IV / P	61	Restoration conversion and expansion of the organ by Paul Ott (1954–1960); mechanical play and stop action
2001	34	Stolzenau	St. Jacobi		III / P	35	Renovation conversion and extension of the organ by Paul Ott (1954/1963) and Janke (2000) behind the historical prospectus by Ernst Wilhelm Meyer (1830/1831)
2002	35	Steyerberg	St. Catherine's		II / P	16	Renovation of the organ by Christian Vater (1737/1738, historical prospectus and principal 4 ′), Hillebrand 1962–1966, Janke 2002
2002	36	Bad Sachsa	St. Nicholas Church		III / P	30th	Renovation of the organ by Emil Hammer (1955/1956); electrical stop action
2002	37	Angerstein (Nörten-Hardenberg)	Ev.-ref. church		I / P	9	Renovation of the organ by Paul Ott (1958) behind the historical prospect from the 18th century.
2004	38	Nörten-Hardenberg -Bishausen	St. George		I / P	6th	Renovation of the organ by Carl Heyder (1883)

literature

• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 .
• Rudolf Janke: Movement around the organ movement. Notes from practice . In: Organ International . No. 2 , 2002, p. 78-86 .
• Ralph Nickles: Organ inventory of the Krummhörn and the city of Emden . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-929902-62-1 .
• Uwe Pape : The organ of the Ev.-luth. Church in Cadenberge, with a restoration report by Rudolf Janke (=  monographs of historical organs . Volume 4 ). Pape Verlag, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-921140-31-5 .
• Uwe Pape: Organ workshops and organ builders in Germany from 1945 to 2004 . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-921140-66-8 .
• Harald Vogel , Günter Lade, Nicola Borger-Keweloh: Organs in Lower Saxony . Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-50-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vogel: Organs in Lower Saxony . 1997, pp. 87f.
2. ^ Nickles: Organ inventory . 1995, p. 144.
3. ↑ Fischer: 100 years of the Federation of German Organ Builders . 1991, pp. 215f.
4. ↑ Rudolf Janke: Movement around the organ movement. Notes from practice . In: Organ International . No. 2 , 2002, p. 81 f .
5. ↑ Rudolf Janke: Movement around the organ movement. Notes from practice . In: Organ International . No. 2 , 2002, p. 85 .
6. ↑ Rudolf Janke: Movement around the organ movement. Notes from practice . In: Organ International . No. 2 , 2002, p. 84-86 .
7. ↑ The new organ makes everyone shine , Schwäbische Zeitung , June 9, 2008
8. ^ Organ in Bramsche , accessed on November 16, 2012.
9. ^ Organ in Rinteln , accessed on September 7, 2010.
10. ^ Organ in Remels , accessed on September 7, 2010.

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