WRK organ building

Typical company sign

WRK-Orgelbau was an organ building workshop that was founded by the organ builders Klaus Wendhack, Gerd Redeker and Friedrich Kreuzer in Munich in 1969 and built numerous organs up to the turn of the millennium, mainly in Bavaria.

history

The three company founders met and joined forces while working at Carl Schuster (Munich). In 1990 they built more than 80 new organs.

After a fire destroyed the company building in Munich in 1991, operations were relocated to Grasbrunn in 1992 .

After Klaus Wendhack left the company in the mid-1990s, it was renamed Redeker & Kreuzer Orgelbau .

The company's last known new buildings date from 2000.

Klaus Wendhack

Klaus Wendhack (* 1937 in Nuremberg ) learned organ building from Bauer in Unterasbach , then worked with Willi Peter in Cologne and passed the master's examination in 1968. He was responsible for planning new instruments at WRK-Orgelbau and was in charge of production.

Gerd Redeker

Gerd Redeker (* 1945 in Plattling ) learned from Weise (Plattling) and then went to Schuster in Munich. In 1970 he made the master's examination. At WRK-Orgelbau he was in charge of metal pipe construction and was responsible for intonation tasks.

Friedrich Kreuzer

Friedrich Kreuzer (* 1937 in Regensburg ) learned from Eduard Hirnschrodt (Regensburg) and has been a master craftsman since 1968. At WRK-Orgelbau he took care of commercial matters.

List of works (excerpt)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1970	Munich	Philip Church		II / P	12
1970	Scheyern	Chapter church in the Scheyern monastery		II / P	7th
1970	Zusmarshausen	Church of the Resurrection		I / P	5
1972	Graefelfing	Friedenskirche		II / P	12
1972	Munich - Riem	St. Martin		I / P	5
1973	Wendelstein (Middle Franconia)	St. Nicholas		II / P	16
1974	Etting (Ingolstadt)	St. Michael		II / P	16
1974	hair	St. Raphael Clinic Church		II / P	16	Technical new building with electric action using the prospectus and parts of the old Siemann organ. 1998 Expansion and reconstruction by Munich organ builder Johannes Führer to 24 registers.
1974	Gaimersheim	Assumption of the Virgin Mary		II / P	18th
1976	Greding	St. James		II / P	23	With 5 mechanical composer combinations → organ
1977	Munich - Isarvorstadt	St. Anton		III / P	44	→ organ
1977	Gnodstadt	Ev.-Luth. St. Peter and Paul		II / P	14th
1977	hair	St. Boniface		I.	5	Interim organ. 1979 replaced by a new WRK organ (see there)
1978	Feucht (Middle Franconia)	Heart of jesus		II / P	22nd
1978	Wolferstadt	St. Martin		II / P	17th
1978	Munich - Neuperlach	St. Philip Neri		II / P	12
1978	Munich - Daglfing	St. Philip and Jacob		I / P	6th
1979	Munich	St. Pius		IV / P	51	Using numerous parts of the predecessor organ by Nenninger. In addition to the organ for Gut Rottenried (today Heilig Geist Augsburg), it is the largest organ from the WRK company. → organ
1979	hair	St. Boniface		II / P	23
1979	Georgensgmünd	St. Wunibald		II / P	14th
1979	Munich - Obermenzing	Suffering of christ		II / P	8th	Choir organ; Replaced in 1998 by a Kaps organ; Whereabouts unknown
1979	Weissenfeld	St. Bartholomew		I / P	6th
1981	Cleaning well	Clemens Maria Children's Home		II / P	9
1981	Geretrsried-Gartenberg	Holy Family		II / P	20th
1981	Munich - Großhadern	Ecumenical Clinical Church in the Großhadern Clinic		II / P	13
1981	Holzingen	Ev.-Luth. St. Margaretha Church		II / P	11
1981	Zandt	St. Leonhard
1982	Gilching	Good Rottenried		III / P	51	This unusually large house organ was located in a spacious hall in the Rottenried estate near Gilching. With 51 registers, it is the largest organ of the WRK company alongside St. Pius (Munich). However, the owner died in 1994 and the organ was moved to the catholic parish church Heilig Geist Augsburg-Hochzoll .
1982	Nuremberg - Moorenbrunn	Mother of good advice		II / P	23
1982	Nuremberg - Kornburg	Mary Queen		II / P	18th
1982	Hofstetten (Hitzhofen)	St. Nicholas of Flüe		II / P	16
1983	Munich - Neuperlach	St. Stephan		II / P	15th
1983	Munich - Neuperlach	St. Monika		II / P	23
1983	Munich - Neuhadern	St. Ignatius		II / P	18th
1983	Großhabersdorf	Ev.-Luth. St. Walburg		II / P	23
1983	Germering	Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church		II / P	19th
1984	Denkendorf	St. Laurence		II / P	18th
1984	Ingolstadt	Pauluskirche		III / P	21st	With coupling manual
1985	Munich - Nymphenburg	Christ the King		III / P	44	→ organ
1985	Nuremberg - Falkenheim	St. Wunibald		II / P	24
1985	Kasing (Koesching)	St. Martin		II / P	11
1985	Preith	St. Brigida
1986	Munich-Waldperlach	Jubilate Church		II / P	15th
1986	Munich - Isarvorstadt	Painful chapel		II / P	7th
1987	Munich - Am Hart	To the fourteen holy helpers in need		III / P	19th	With coupling manual
1987	Feldkirchen (Ingolstadt)	St. Mary		II / P	10
1988	Ebersdorf (Ludwigsstadt)	Magdalenenkirche		II / P	13
1988	Forheim	Ev.-Luth. St. Margaretha		II / P	11
1988	Gilching	Good Rottenried		II / P	8th	In addition to this small house organ, there was also the Opus Magnum by WRK with 52 stops on Gut Rottenried (see there). However, the owner died in 1994 and the current location of the small organ is unknown.
1989	Kirchseeon	St. Joseph		III / P	23	With coupling manual
1989	Mitteleschenbach	St. Nicholas		II / P	15th
1989	Grasbrunn-Neukeferloh	St. Christopher		II / P	17th
1989	Unterwattenbach	St. Aegidius		I / P	9
1990	Moosach (Ebersberg district)	St. Bartholomew		II / P	17th
1990	Ingolstadt - Irgertsheim	St. Laurence		II / P	11
1990	Ilmmünster	St. Pankratius (Herrnrast)		I / P	??
1991	Munich - Neuperlach	Latare Church		III / P	22nd	With coupling manual
1991	Hofolding	Holy cross		II / P	11	Three registers of the previous Maerz organ reused.
1993	Neusäß	Emmaus Church		II / P	10
1994	Your desire	St. Martin		II / P	13
1999	Hüttenkofen (Mengkofen)	Assumption Day		II / P	14th

literature

• Georg Brenninger : Organs in Old Bavaria . 2nd Edition. Bruckmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7654-1859-5 .
• Hermann Fischer and Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Heinrichshofen-Bücher, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 .
• Hermann Fischer: 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders 1891–1991 . Organ building specialist publisher Rensch, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Church leader - The organ. On the website of the cath. Parish of St. Michael Ingolstadt-Etting. ( Memento from February 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Source for the entry Gut Rottenried: Brenninger Altbayern (1982), p. 178
3. ↑ Parish Association Vaterstetten: St. Christophorus - Neukeferloh . Online at www.erzbistum-muenchen.de; Retrieved June 5, 2016.

Web links

Commons : WRK Orgelbau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of Redeker & Kreuzer Orgelbau ( Memento from July 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive )