Samuel Gercke

Samuel Gercke (also Gerke ; † after 1693 ) was a German organ builder and organist in Güstrow in Mecklenburg .

Live and act

There is almost no information about his life. Samuel Gercke worked for the organ builder Heinrich Herbst the Elder. Ä. from Magdeburg and married his daughter. From 1680 to 1683 both built with Heinrich Herbst d. J. and obviously also Arp Schnitger have a large organ in Basedow , which is the oldest surviving organ in Mecklenburg today. One last work is known from 1693.

Organs

Only two new organs and some repairs in Mecklenburg are known by Samuel Gercke.

New organs

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1680-1683	Basedow	church		III / P	36	with Heinrich Herbst d. Ä. and d. J. and Arp Schnitger, rebuilt several times, reconstructed in 1982 and restored by Schuke, restored in 2012 - organ
1688	Röbel	St. Mary		II / P	26th	not received

More work

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1685	Malchow	City Church				Repairs, even as early as 1663?
1685	Malchow	Monastery church				Repairs
before 1686	Guestrow	lock				Repairs, possibly also new construction
1686	Guestrow	Dom				Repairs, also in 1693

literature

• Max Reinhard Jaehn, Uwe Pape: Samuel Gercke . In: Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner (Eds.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg and the surrounding area including Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017. p. 167.
• Reinhard Jaehn: The Basedow Organ (1683), Mecklenburg's oldest sounding organ . In: Ars Organi . 2/1984. Pp. 90-98.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Organ in Basedow Orgelmuseum Malchow, also Orgel Treise