Urban Kreutzbach

Organ builder Urban Kreutzbach

Urban-Kreutzbach company sign on the organ console of the Sommerfeld church

Advertisement in the (parish) official calendar for Saxony in 1894

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
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).
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 .
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)
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 .
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
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 ; 1937 redesign by master organ builder Alfred Schmeisser, Rochlitz
1903	Seifersdorf	Village church		II		2018 Repair by organ builder Christian Max from Zittau .

Schmidt & Berger

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
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 .
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

Commons : Urban Kreutzbach Orgelbau Borna  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 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

1. ↑ Kreutzbach organ building company , accessed on June 24, 2014.
2. ↑ Dittmannsdorf Church , accessed on November 3, 2019.
3. ^ Johanniskirche Wiederau , accessed on November 3, 2019.
4. ^ Luther Church Costewitz , accessed on November 3, 2019.
5. ^ Organ in Regis , accessed on November 3, 2019.
6. ^ Organ in Markkleeberg , accessed on November 3, 2019.
7. ↑ 150 years of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Nicolai Waldheim. Retrieved November 3, 2019 . 
8. ^ Church Großlehna , accessed on November 3, 2019.
9. ↑ St. Nikolai Church in Döbeln. Retrieved November 3, 2019 . 
10. ^ Church of the Drei Marien Härtensdorf. Retrieved November 3, 2019 . 
11. ^ Organ in Geithain , accessed on November 3, 2019.
12. ^ Organ in Zschocken , accessed on November 3, 2019.
13. ↑ Gottesackerkirche St. Johannis Pegau , accessed on November 3, 2019.
14. ^ Organ of the St. Laurentius Pegau town church , accessed on November 3, 2019.
15. ^ Organ in Althen , accessed on November 3, 2019.
16. ^ Organ in Hohenheida , accessed on November 3, 2019.
17. ^ Organ in Kitzscher , accessed on November 3, 2019.
18. ^ Ortmannsdorf, St. Niklas. In: Organ Databank. Retrieved November 3, 2019 . 
19. ^ Organ in Uhyst am Taucher , accessed on November 3, 2019.
20. ^ Organ in Großpostwitz , accessed on November 3, 2019.
21. ^ Organ in Bockau , accessed on November 3, 2019.
22. ↑ ^{a b} Organ in Sommerfeld , accessed on November 3, 2019.
23. ^ 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 .
24. ^ Organ in Wildenhain , accessed on November 3, 2019.
25. ^ Organ in Niederfrohna , accessed on November 3, 2019.
26. ↑ ORKASA organ database , accessed on February 12, 2020.
27. ↑ ORKASA organ database , accessed on August 9, 2020.
28. ^ Organ in Portitz , accessed on November 3, 2019.
29. ^ Organ in Eibenstock , accessed on November 3, 2019.
30. ^ Organ in Friedersdorf , accessed on November 3, 2019.
31. ↑ ^{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 .
32. ^ Organ Stadtkirche Frauenstein , accessed on September 26, 2015
33. ↑ 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. 
34. ↑ [Hartmut Haupt, organs in the Gera district]
35. ^ Organ in Lindenau , accessed on June 24, 2014.
36. ^ Organ in Baalsdorf , accessed on June 24, 2014.
37. ↑ St. Laurentius Church Markranstädt , accessed on June 21, 2014.
38. ^ Organ of the St. Niklas Church , accessed on July 6, 2014.
39. ^ Organ in Ehrenfriedersdorf , accessed on July 6, 2014.
40. ^ Organ in Lindenau , accessed on September 22, 2014.
41. ↑ Neukirchen on the website of the city of Borna , accessed on November 14, 2015.
42. ^ Organ in Wyhra , accessed June 24, 2014.
43. ^ Organs in Leipzig , accessed on June 23, 2014.
44. ^ Organ builder Johannes Jahn , accessed on June 25, 2014.
45. ^ Organ in Sellerhausen , accessed on June 24, 2014.
46. ↑ Whistles are no longer out of line , accessed on September 27, 2018.
47. ^ Organ in Deutzen , accessed on June 24, 2014.
48. ^ Organ in Netzschkau , accessed on June 24, 2014.
49. ^ Organ in Roda , accessed on June 24, 2014.
50. ^ Organ in Pötzschau , accessed on June 24, 2014.
51. ^ Church and North Sacristy Wellerswalde , parish Liebschützberg, accessed on July 3, 2016.
52. ^ Organ in Gnandstein , accessed on June 24, 2014.