Weimbs organ building

Weimbs organ building
legal form	GmbH
founding	1927
Seat	Hellenthal , Germany
management	Friedbert and Frank Weimbs
Branch	Musical instrument making
Website	www.weimbs.de

The Weimbs Orgelbau GmbH based in Hellenthal in the Eifel is a German organ building company.

history

The company was founded in 1927 by Josef Weimbs I (1886–1949) and is now run in the fourth generation by the two master organ builders Friedbert Weimbs (* 1947) and son Frank Weimbs (* 1971). The family business sees itself as the successor company to the organ building workshop Gebrüder Müller from the neighboring Reifferscheid founded in 1802 .

List of works (selection)

year	opus	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1928	1	Hellenthal	St. Anna		II / P	23	with pneumatic cone tray ; destroyed in World War II
1953	23	Krekel	St. Barbara		I / P	6th
1955	27	Losheim (Hellenthal)	St. Michael		II / P	12
1956		Köttingen	St. Joseph
1957	35	Reifferscheid (Hellenthal)	St. Matthias		II / P	20th	electric play and stop action
1957	36	Blumenthal (Hellenthal)	St. Brigida		II / P	12
1957	37	Hergarten	St. Martinus		II / P	13
1960	46	Düren	St. Mary		II / P	23	The organ was demolished in 1992. The successor organ comes from the Heinz Wilbrand company from Übach-Palenberg and has 29 registers.
1961	51	Long suffering	St. Martin		II / P	30th	The instrument was canceled in 2011. The successor organ comes from the Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen company and has 34 registers.
1962	58	Udenbreth	St. Hubertus		II / P	14th
1963	54	Arnoldsweiler	Little St. Arnold		I / P	7th	The organ was originally located in the chapel of the Franciscan convent in Arnoldsweiler. Since the monastery closed in 1990, the Franciscan Sisters from Salzkotten donated the organ to the parish of St. Arnold. In 1990 the organ was installed unchanged in Klein St. Arnold.
1963	55	Niederau	Church of the Holy Sepulcher and Resurrection of St. Cyriakus		II / P	19th	Restored in 1997.
1964	58	Vlatten (Heimbach)	St. Dionysius		II / P	17th
1968	82	Imgenbroich	St. Joseph		II / P	14th	1972 expanded by building company.
1964	61	Upper ornament	St. Martin		II / P	16
1971	95	Höfen (Monschau)	St. Michael		II / P	21st	electric action
1971	97	Ellen	St. Thomas of Canterbury		II / P	16
1973	104	Hillesheim (Eifel)	St. Martin		II / P	28	Restoration of the Stumm organ from 1772
1973	107	Gemünd	St. Nicholas		II / P	36
1974	111	Effers	St. Mary's Birth		II / P	24
1974/75	116	Ersdorf	St. James the Elder		II / P	20th	1400 pipes, some stops taken from the old organ from 1904; consecrated on February 23, 1975 by Auxiliary Bishop Augustinus Frotz
1976	126	Neukirchen (Rheinbach)	St. Margareta		I / P	11	Expansion of the Klais organ from six to eleven registers in 1890
1980	148	Düsseldorf - Lierenfeld	St. Michael		III / P	25th	New building; the first manual is a coupling manual. Mechanical slide chests.
1982/2007	160	Kuchenheim	St. Nicholas		II / P	20th	Restoration of the organ by Franz Joseph Schorn (1895)
1983	171	Lasel	St. Helena		II / P	16
1983	174	Steinfeld Monastery	St. Potentinus, Adoration Chapel		II / P	5
1984	188	Herhahn	St. Catherine		I / P	12
1986		Stipshausen	Protestant church		I / P	10	Restoration of the Stumm organ and transfer from the east to the west gallery
1986	197	Hellenthal	St. Anna		III / P	32	Slider shop instrument
1987	205	Bruehl	Ev. Christ Church		II / P	26th
1987	208	Huchem stammering	St. Joseph		II / P	13
1987	210	Schleiden	St. Philip and Jacob		I.	4th	Chest organ
1988	33	Schleiden	St. Philip and James		II / P	30th	Restoration of the organ by Christian Ludwig König (1770)
1988	215	Singing (Hohentwiel)	Sacred Heart Church		III / P	34	including registers by Johannes Schwarz (19th century)
1990	228	Windberg	St. Anna		II / P	25th	Originally built for St. Peter, Mönchengladbach-Waldhausen and moved to the Annakirche in 2008
1993	239	Ansbach	St. Ludwig		III / P	41
1994	245	Aachen	Anna Church		III / P	33	Brochure based on a design by Valentin Micken
1994	248	Raeren (Belgium)	St. Nicholas		II / P	24
1995	251	Huerth (middle)	St. Joseph		II / P	23
1999	273	Aachen- Burtscheid	St. Michael		III / P	36
2001	277	Cologne	St. Gereon		III / P	36
2001	281	Bouderath	St. Gertrude		II / P	14th	Restoration of the 1926 organ from Otto Kratochwil's workshop in Bonn
2002	284	Blankenheimerdorf	St. Peter and Paul		II / P	15th	Restoration of the organ, 6 registers from 1870, Gebr. Müller from Reifferscheid (1912/13)
2002	286	Olef (Schleiden)	St. Johann Baptist		II / P	21st	Restoration of the organ
2003	288	Contern (Luxembourg)	Saint Barbara		II / P	15th
2003	290	Kierspe	Margaret Church		II / P	20th	Restoration of the organ by Christian Roetzel (1828)
2004	295	Saarburg	St. Laurence		II / P	27
2005	296	Zeltingen-Rachtig	St. Mary		II / P	27	behind the case of Balthasar König ? (1739) with historic prospect pipes
2005	300	Zell (Moselle)	St. Peter		II / P	28	behind the historical prospectus of Stumm (1789)
2007	308	Willows in the Upper Palatinate	St. Michael		III / P	53	Max Reger memory organ based on the German-Romantic style, but with slide chests and mechanical action mechanism.
2008-2009	313	Rheinberg	St. Peter		II / P	21st	The new organ is located behind the largely preserved prospectus by the Stumm brothers from 1769
2008	314	Bruehl	Ev. Johanneskirche		I / P	11	two more pedal stops as extensions
2011	322	Mönchengladbach - Rheydt	St. Mary		II / P	38
2013	327	Brauweiler	St. Nicholas Abbey Church		II / P	26th	New building in historical housing from the 17th century. Some historic pipes from the previous organ were reused.
2013	329	Delitzsch	St. Mary		II / P	23	New building
2013	330	Brand (Aachen)	St. Donatus		II / P	37	reorganization
2014	331	Zülpich	St. Peter		II / P	33	reorganization
2014	332	Landvik (Norway)	ev. church		II / P	23	New building
2015	333	Bickendorf (Cologne)	ev. Epiphany Church		II / P	11	restoration
2015	334	Bergen (Norway)	ev. Marienkirche		II / P	31	New building
2015	335	Came	ev. Pauluskirche		III / P	37	restoration
2015	336	Brand (Upper Palatinate)	Sacred Heart of Jesus		II / P	20th	New building in Max Reger's birthplace with a view of German-romantic colors. Mechanical slide chests; Roller and two independent sills enable a convincing representation of the music of the Genius Loci.
2016	337	Recklinghausen - Stuckenbusch	St. Francis		II / P	27	restoration
2016	338	Trittau	Martin Luther Church		II / P	20th	New building
2017	339	Brand (Aachen)	Church of the Redeemer		III / P	31	reorganization
2017	340	Kyoto (Japan)	Doshisha Junior and Senior High School		III / P	35	New building
2017	341	Rahm (Duisburg)	St. Hubertus		III / P	35	reorganization
2017	342	Ratingen-Homberg	Christ Church (Ratingen-Homberg)		II / P	16	restoration
2017	343	Zülpich	St. Peter		III / P	47	extension
2018	344	Jessheim (Norway)	ev. church		II / P	23	New building
2018	345	Moers-Repelen	ev. church		II / P	15th	reorganization
2019	346	Grevenbroich-Hülchrath	St. Sebastianus		II / P	13	New building
2019	347	Bad Honnef	St. Johann Baptist		III / P	46	reorganization
2019	348	Tokyo (Japan)	Aoyama Gakuin Junior High School		II / P	26th	New building
2019	349	Dusseldorf	Church of the Resurrection		III / P	65	reorganization
2020	350	Korschenbroich	St. Andrew		IV / P	78	reorganization

Web links

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

• Organ building Weimbs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, edited by the Episcopal General Vicariate, Aachen 1994, p. 573.
2. ↑ Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, published by the Episcopal General Vicariate, Aachen 1994, p. 588.