Schlag & Sons

Grave site of the Schlag family in Schweidnitz

Schlag & Söhne was an organ building company in Schweidnitz in Silesia .

history

In 1831 the organ builder Christian Gottlieb Schlag took over the organ building company from Gottfried Kiesewatter in Jauer in Lower Silesia after the latter went bankrupt. In 1834 he moved the company to Schweidnitz. In 1869 it was renamed Schlag & Söhne Schweidnitz after the brothers Carl Johann and Heinrich left. The management was taken over by the sons Theodor and Oscar (Oskar) Schlag. In 1877 Christian Gottlieb Schlag left the company.

In 1903 it was transformed into Schlag & Söhne Schweidnitz Commanditgesellschaft with the participation of the grandchildren Reinhold and Bruno. The company developed into the most important organ building company in Silesia until the First World War. The Opus 1000 (the 1000th instrument) was built in 1914. In 1923 the company was stopped

The company's history has been shaped by numerous innovations. The company was known far beyond the borders of Silesia.

List of works (selection)

The Schlag & Söhne company built or converted more than 1100 organs by 1923, especially in Silesia , but also in many places in Germany and around the world. Instruments that are no longer available are in italics.

New organs

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	opus	Remarks
around 1872	Ludwigsdorf near Görlitz	Parish church
1888	Berlin	Philharmonic		III / P	50		Destroyed in 1945
1889	Glogau , today Głogów	St. Mary's Cathedral		II / P	27		Destroyed in 1944
1890	Spandau	New garrison church		II / P	25th		1945/49 destroyed with church
1890	Hochkirch	church		II / P	16
1890	Bischdorf, Saxony	Village church		II / P	16
1891	Senftenberg	Peter and Paul Church					Destroyed in 1944/45
1892	Reinickendorf near Berlin	Blessing Church		II / P	17th
1892	Val Gardena, Brandenburg	Village church		II / P	14th
1892	Glogau , today Głogów	synagogue		II / P	16		Destroyed in 1938
1893	Dobbertin	Dobbertin Monastery Church					1945 destroyed in 1953 by an organ of Schuke organ building replaced , → Organ
1893	Bergen (Norway)	Johanneskirche		III / P	43		Rebuilt in 1967, largely restoring the original condition in 1999 by Christian Scheffler
1893	Bethlehem	Protestant church		II / P	8th
1894	Liegnitz , today Legnica, Lower Silesia	Cathedral Church of St. Peter and Paul					The baroque case of the organ was created by Ignatius Mentzel in 1722–1725.
1895	Larz	Village church		I / P			2005 general overhaul and 2011 installation of new prospect pipes made of tin by Mecklenburg Organ Builders .
1896	Königshütte , today Chorzów	St. Barbara Church		II / P	37
1897	Berlin	Saint Simeon Church		III / P	43		probably destroyed in 1945
1898	Travemünde	St. Lorenz (Travemünde)					1966 replaced by a work by Rudolf von Beckerath organ building
1898	Großschönau , Saxony	Protestant church		II / P	32		1949 replaced by Schuster organ
1898	Chemnitz	synagogue		II / P	20th		Destroyed in 1938
1899	Köslin , today Koszalin, Pomerania	St. Mary's Cathedral		III / P	50		receive
1899	Vetschau / Spreewald	Wendish-German double church		II / P			Restored in 1990
1901	Goerlitz	Luther Church		II / P	33		Replaced in 1975
1904	Wedding-Gesundbrunnen	Stephanuskirche		III / P	39	681	previously at the exhibition for handicrafts and applied arts : shown in Breslau, largest preserved Schlag - & - Söhne organ in Germany.
1904	cottbus	Kreuzkirche			?		probably received
1905 or 1906	Zedtlitz near Leipzig	church					Around 1905 the upper work was redesigned, later probably replaced by a Vogel organ
1908	Berlin Tegel	Sacred Heart Church		II / P	26th		1929 new work in the previous prospectus by GF Steinmeyer & Co. using old organ pipes.
1908	Bystrzyca Kłodzka	St. Michael's Church		II / P	34
1908	Kieritzsch	church		II / P	12	687	2010–2011 replaced by the Bochmann company from Kohren-Sahlis
?	Grünberg , today Żielona Góra	Church, today the Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa		III / P	40	764	receive
1912	Grünberg , today Żielona Góra	Church, today St. Hedwig's Cathedral		II / P	30th	957	receive
1915	Großräschen , Lower Lusatia	St. Anthony Church					Replaced in 1976 by a Jehmlich organ
1916	Daubitz near Niesky	George's Church		II / P			receive
	Wroclaw , today Wroclaw	Church of St. Christopher		II / P	12
? (before 1917)	Szczecin , today Szczecin	St. Trinity Church					Fetched in 1917 from an abandoned chapel in Hermsdorf near Waldenburg in Silesia .
	Poischwitz	Trinity Church
	Łódź	Trinity Church
	Łódź	St. John's Church (today Jesuit Church)			44
	Chełmsko Śląskie	Church Holy Family		II / P	27

More work

• 1892/93 St. Mary's Church in Berlin-Mitte, renovation
• 1904 Carlsruhe (Pokój) , Upper Silesia, church, renovation,

See also

• List of organ builders

literature

• Wolfram Hackel, Uwe Pape (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Volume 2. Saxony and the surrounding area. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2015. (also in volumes 1 and 4)

Web links

Commons : Schlag & Söhne  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Christian Gottlieb Schlag University of Leipzig (PDF)
• Schlag und Söhne organ database, 131 organs (German, Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Gottlieb Schlag ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. University of Leipzig 
2. ↑ Organ with disposition (Dutch)
3. ↑ organ (Dutch)
4. ↑ organ (Dutch)
5. ↑ Information Orgeldatabase (Dutch)
6. ↑ Information Orgeldatabase (Dutch)
7. ↑ Organ with disposition (Dutch)
8. ↑ organ (Dutch)
9. ↑ Johanneskirken . In: Kirkemusikk i Bergen domkirke menighet (ed.): Bergen Orgelsommer 2018 . Bergen 2018, p. 11 (Norwegian Bokmål).
10. ^ Kristen Øgaard: Orgelet i Johanneskirken - et spesielt instrument i europeisk together. In: Johanneskirken. Bergen domkirke menighet, accessed on November 29, 2018 (Bokmål in Norwegian). 
11. ↑ Organ with disposition (Dutch)
12. ↑ Organ with disposition (Dutch)
13. ↑ organ (Dutch)
14. ↑ Organ with disposition (Dutch)
15. ^ Organ church Großschöna, No. 8 (Schuster organ) and 10 (Schlag - & - Söhne organ)
16. ↑ Organ with disposition (Dutch)
17. ↑ Organ with disposition (Dutch)
18. ↑ organ (Dutch)
19. ↑ Organ with disposition (Dutch)
20. ↑ Information (Dutch)
21. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) No. 162 (brief information)
22. ↑ organ organ index
23. ↑ Organ with disposition (Dutch)
24. ^ Opus number on enamel plate on the organ table
25. ^ Organ Musicam Sacram (Polish)
26. ↑ Daubitz, St. George's Church
27. ↑ pl: Kościół Zesłania Ducha Świętego w Łodzi
28. ↑ pl: Kościół luterański św. Jana w Łodzi
29. ↑ Organ with disposition (Dutch)
30. ^ Organ of the St. Marien Church in Berlin
31. ↑ The organ of the Evangelical Sophienkirche in Carlsruhe (Pokój)