Urban Kreutzbach
Urban Kreutzbach (born August 28, 1796 in Copenhagen , † August 22, 1868 in Borna ) was an organ builder who worked in central Germany .
education
Urban Kreutzbach first completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Helsingør . During his years of wandering through France , Switzerland and Germany he came to Pegau in 1821 to the master organ builder Carl Gottlob Häcker. There he worked on the building of the organs in Schönau and Prießnitz near Frohburg . In 1822, Urban Kreutzbach went to Borna with Häcker , who relocated his workshop there. Kreutzbach obtained his master craftsman's certificate in Borna .
Own workshop
In 1828 Urban Kreutzbach started his own business in Borna. He built his first organ for the church in Dittmannsdorf , his last for the town church in Borna, but he did not witness its inauguration in 1869. His journeymen also included the later world-famous organ builder Friedrich Ladegast and his brother Christlieb, who worked on Kreutzbach's first major organ work for the St. Nikolai town church in Waldheim in 1842 . In addition to building new organs, Kreutzbach also carried out restoration work, B. at the Silbermann organ in Rötha and the Hildebrandt organ in Störmthal . In addition, he continued to work as a carpenter and, for example, carried out the carpentry work for the boys' school (today's city library) in Borna in 1829 .
Succession
After Urban Kreutzbach's death, his two sons Richard (1839–1903) and Bernhard took over the company. However, Bernhard quickly withdrew from the company after a dispute.
Until his death in 1903, Richard built other excellent organs in the tradition of his father.
Two former employees of Richard Kreutzbach - Wilhelm Schmidt (1867–1945) and Wilhelm Berger (1863–1929) - continued the business under the name Schmidt & Berger (Kreutzbach Nachf.) . From 1910 only "organ repairs and tuning" were carried out. After the First World War, the company was dissolved.
The third brother Julius Kreutzbach (1845–1913) became a well-known piano manufacturer in Leipzig.
List of works (selection)
Urban Kreutzbach
year | place | church | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
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1828 | Dittmannsdorf | Dittmannsdorf village church | ||||
1831 | Again | Johanniskirche | ||||
1836 | Costewitz (district of Elstertrebnitz ) | Luther Church | ||||
1840 | Regis | City Church of St. George | ||||
1841 | Markkleeberg | Auenkirche | Kreutzbach originally built the organ for the St. Martin Church in Elstertrebnitz . After the Elstertrebnitz church was given up, the organ found its new location in the Auenkirche in 1999/2000 after a fundamental overhaul by master organ builder Gerd-Christian Bochmann, Kohren-Sahlis . | |||
1842 | Waldheim | City Church of St. Nicolai | ||||
1843 | Großlehna | Großlehna village church | ||||
1844 | Chub | St. Nicholas Church | II / P | 35 | The Kreutzbach organ was replaced in 1929 by a new organ from Hermann Eule Orgelbau , Bautzen. | |
1846 | Härtensdorf | Church of the Three Marys | ||||
1847 | Geithain | St. Nikolai Church | In 1902 the Kreutzbach organ, from which 15 registers were taken, was replaced by a new one by the organ builder Alfred Schmeisser from Rochlitz. In 2005 the case of the Schmeisser organ was converted and expanded by master organ builder Georg Wünning from Großolbersdorf. The registers were partly taken over from the previous organs (Kreutzbach and Schmeisser). |
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1848 | Shock | Church Zschocken | ||||
1849 | Pegau | Gottesackerkirche St. Johannis | ||||
1853 | Pegau | City Church of St. Laurentius | 35 | On the occasion of a church renovation carried out in 1934, the organ received a free pipe prospect. In 2000 the organ was repaired by master organ builder Gerd-Christian Bochmann, Kohren-Sahlis . |
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1855 | Althen | Althen Church | II / P | 11 | 1957 completely overhauled by organ builder Reinhard Schmeisser, Rochlitz | |
1855 | Hohenheida | Hohenheida Church | II / P | 14th | Restored in 1994 by master organ builder Georg Wünning from Großolbersdorf | |
1856 | Kitzscher | St. Nikolai Church | ||||
1856 | Ortmannsdorf | St. Niklas | ||||
1856 | Uhyst on the diver | Church of Peter and Paul (since 1996 motorway church) |
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1857 | Großpostwitz | Großpostwitz Church | II / P | 30th | ||
1858 | Mockery | Hohnstädt Church | II / P | 15th | 8 + 5 + 2 registers. Fundamental restoration in 1993 by the Wünnig company from Großolbersdorf | |
1860 | Bockau | Ev.-Luth. Bockau Church | ||||
1861 | Lausick | St. Kilian's Church | On the occasion of a renovation in 1957, the church was equipped with an organ by Gottfried Silbermann , which he had originally built in 1722 for the Johanniskirche in Chemnitz . After the reconstruction of the Sommerfeld Church in 1957, the parish of Sommerfeld received the Kreutzbach organ of St. Kilian's Church. | |||
1861 | Summer field | Sommerfeld Church | II / P | 25 (11-8-6) | A bomb attack on October 20, 1943 destroyed the church and organ. After the reconstruction of the Sommerfeld Church in 1957, the Sommerfeld parish received an organ that Urban Kreutzbach had built in 1861 for the St. Kilian Church in Lausick . |
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1861 | Greifendorf | Ev.-Luth. church | II / P | 24 | Last cleaning in 1998 by Helmut Wagner and Michael Kreskowsky | |
1862 | Treben | Treben Church | ||||
1862 | Wildenhain | Ev.-luth. church | II P | 21st | ||
1862 | Niederfrohna | Johanniskirche | ||||
1863 | Luppa (Wermsdorf) | Luppa Church | II / P | 24 (10-9-5) | ||
1863 | Dresden- Hosterwitz | Maria on the water | II / P | 17 (10-4-3) | ||
1865 | Brick home | Marien pilgrimage church | ||||
1867 | Portitz | Portitz Church | II / P | 17th | ||
1868 | Eibenstock | Eibenstock town church | II / P | 36 | 1917 requisition of the tin pipes for armament purposes; 1952–1954 repairs by Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden ; 2011 Return to the original condition by the organ building workshop Ekkehart Groß, Waditz . | |
1868 | Friedersdorf | Oberfriedersdorf Church | Restored in 1995 by the organ building workshop Ekkehart Groß, Waditz . |
Richard Kreutzbach
year | place | church | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
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1872 | Bubendorf | church | The instrument was transferred to the Ev.-Luth. St. Nicolai Church Reinsdorf near Waldheim moved. | |||
1873 | Frauenstein (Ore Mountains) | City Church | II / P | 30th | 2007–2008 restoration and extensive restoration of the original condition by organ building company Hermann Eule (Bautzen) . | |
1874 | Gohlis | Friedenskirche | ||||
1881 | Greiz | St. Mary | II / P | 40 | ||
1883 | Lindenau | Nathanael Church | II / P | 34 | pneumatic box drawer, the first fully pneumatic organ in Saxony. | |
1883 | Baalsdorf | Baalsdorf Church | II / P | 11 | ||
1886 | Leipzig | Luther Church | II / P | 28 | ||
1886 | Markranstädt | St. Lawrence Church | II / P | 24 | Restoration 2006/2007 by Mitteldeutscher Orgelbau Voigt, Bad Liebenwerda and extension by trumpet 8 ′ | |
1886 | Lusan | St. Ursula | I / P | 6th | 1924 Installation of new prospect pipes made of zinc as a result of their loss in the First World War | |
1889 | Ehrenfriedersdorf | St. Niklas Church | II / P | 32 | Restored from 2001 to 2002 by master organ builder Thomas Wolf, Vogtländischer Orgelbau , Limbach . | |
1891 | Lindenau | Nathanael Church | III / P | 43 | Extension of the organ built 7 years earlier to III / 43 | |
1892 | Neukirchen | St. Lawrence Church | ||||
1894 | Wyhra | St. Stephen Church | ||||
1895 | Beerwalde | Ev.-Luth. church | II / P | 13 | Consecrated: October 31, 1895 | Free pipe prospectus: 1927 | Water damage: 1935 | Major overhaul by Reinhard Schmeißer from Rochlitz: 1960 | |
1895 | Knobelsdorf | Ev.-Luth. church | II / P | 9 | Cost: 4,500 marks | Electric blower: 1961 | |
1896 | Poessneck | City Church | III / P | 39 | 1926 expanded to 54 registers by Jehmlich | |
1896 | Penig | City Church Penig | III / P | 40 | 1955–1957 Reconstruction by Reinhard Schmeisser and restoration of the function in 1999 by Gerd Christian Bochmann | |
1898 | Schönefeld | Memorial Church | II / P | In 1974 the Kreutzbach organ was replaced by a new building from the organ building company Hermann Eule , at the time a publicly owned company (VEB) from Bautzen . | ||
1900 | Leipzig-Sellerhausen | Emmaus Church | II / P | 32 |
Organ disposition
1927 Installation of new prospect pipes made of zinc by organ builder Julius Jahn & Sohn , Dresden ; |
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1903 | Seifersdorf | Village church | II | 2018 Repair by organ builder Christian Max from Zittau . |
Schmidt & Berger
year | place | church | image | Manuals | register | Remarks |
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1904 | Deutzen | Deutzen Church | The organ was moved from Deutzen to Borna in 1976 due to open-cast lignite mining and from Borna to the Schlosskirche Netzschkau in 1981 . | |||
1905 | Roda | Ev.-Luth. Roda Church | II P | 12 | ||
1907 | Kleinpötzschau | Christ Church | II | 20th | Irreparably damaged by unauthorized persons; 1991 new organ from the organ building company Hermann Eule , Bautzen . |
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1908 | Wellerswalde | Wellerswalde Church | 14th | Renovated in 2015 | ||
1909 | Gnandstein | Gnandstein village church |
literature
Klaus Walter, Wolfram Hackel, Gert Rothe: Urban Kreutzbach (1796-1868). Life and work . In: Acta Organologica. Volume 33, Merseburger 2013, ISBN 978-3-87537-328-8 , pp. 97-266.
- Newspaper article
- Felix Friedrich: From 1860: Borna master builds organ for Treben church - Urban Kreutzbach's instrument can still be heard today . Four-column article in: Leipziger Volkszeitung , Muldental edition, April 18, 2017, p. 28 ("Heimatgeschichte")
Web links
- Jiří Kocourek: Organ builder - Richard Kreutzbach.
- Thomas Bergner: The Kreutzbach organ building company in Borna.
- Kreutzbach organ of the Borna town church with further information on organ building Kreutzbach
- Kreutzbach organ of the village church Dittmannsdorf ( Memento from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Kreutzbach organ of the Auenkirche Markkleeberg ( Memento from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Kreutzbach organ of the St. Laurentius Church in Markranstädt
- Claudia Carell: Bochmanns from Kohren-Sahlis are now restoring world cultural heritage , contribution u. a. about the organ by Urban Kreutzbach in the city church of Penig and its restoration. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung online, January 12, 2018, as well as on the same day in the LVZ regional edition Muldental (as "Topic of the day"), p. 31.
Footnotes
- ↑ Kreutzbach organ building company , accessed on June 24, 2014.
- ↑ Dittmannsdorf Church , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ^ Johanniskirche Wiederau , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ^ Luther Church Costewitz , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ^ Organ in Regis , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ^ Organ in Markkleeberg , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ↑ 150 years of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Nicolai Waldheim. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
- ^ Church Großlehna , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ↑ St. Nikolai Church in Döbeln. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
- ^ Church of the Drei Marien Härtensdorf. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
- ^ Organ in Geithain , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ^ Organ in Zschocken , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ↑ Gottesackerkirche St. Johannis Pegau , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ^ Organ of the St. Laurentius Pegau town church , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ^ Organ in Althen , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ^ Organ in Hohenheida , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ^ Organ in Kitzscher , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ^ Ortmannsdorf, St. Niklas. In: Organ Databank. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .
- ^ Organ in Uhyst am Taucher , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ^ Organ in Großpostwitz , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ^ Organ in Bockau , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ↑ a b Organ in Sommerfeld , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ^ Klaus Walter, Wolfram Hackel, Gert Rothe: Urban Kreutzbach (1796–1868) life and work . In: Wolfram Hackel (ed.): Acta Organologica special print . tape 33 , 2014, pp. 218-220 .
- ^ Organ in Wildenhain , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ^ Organ in Niederfrohna , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ↑ ORKASA organ database , accessed on February 12, 2020.
- ↑ ORKASA organ database , accessed on August 9, 2020.
- ^ Organ in Portitz , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ^ Organ in Eibenstock , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ^ Organ in Friedersdorf , accessed on November 3, 2019.
- ↑ a b c Michael Kreskowsky: 150 years of the Göthel organ in Grünlichtenberg with an organ inventory from Ev.-Luth. Parish Waldheim-Geringswalde Volume 1 . In: Michael Kreskowsky (Ed.): Parish history . 2017th edition. tape 1 . Self-published, Grünlichtenberg 2017, p. 42-43 .
- ^ Organ Stadtkirche Frauenstein , accessed on September 26, 2015
- ↑ Friedenskirche Gohlis ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 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. , accessed June 21, 2014.
- ↑ [Hartmut Haupt, organs in the Gera district]
- ^ Organ in Lindenau , accessed on June 24, 2014.
- ^ Organ in Baalsdorf , accessed on June 24, 2014.
- ↑ St. Laurentius Church Markranstädt , accessed on June 21, 2014.
- ^ Organ of the St. Niklas Church , accessed on July 6, 2014.
- ^ Organ in Ehrenfriedersdorf , accessed on July 6, 2014.
- ^ Organ in Lindenau , accessed on September 22, 2014.
- ↑ Neukirchen on the website of the city of Borna , accessed on November 14, 2015.
- ^ Organ in Wyhra , accessed June 24, 2014.
- ^ Organs in Leipzig , accessed on June 23, 2014.
- ^ Organ builder Johannes Jahn , accessed on June 25, 2014.
- ^ Organ in Sellerhausen , accessed on June 24, 2014.
- ↑ Whistles are no longer out of line , accessed on September 27, 2018.
- ^ Organ in Deutzen , accessed on June 24, 2014.
- ^ Organ in Netzschkau , accessed on June 24, 2014.
- ^ Organ in Roda , accessed on June 24, 2014.
- ^ Organ in Pötzschau , accessed on June 24, 2014.
- ^ Church and North Sacristy Wellerswalde , parish Liebschützberg, accessed on July 3, 2016.
- ^ Organ in Gnandstein , accessed on June 24, 2014.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kreutzbach, Urban |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German master organ builder |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1796 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
DATE OF DEATH | August 22, 1868 |
Place of death | Borna |