Werner Bosch organ building

Werner Bosch organ building
legal form	GmbH
Seat	Niestetal , Germany
Branch	Musical instrument making
Website	www.bosch-orgelbau.com/

Werner Bosch Orgelbau GmbH is a German organ building company based in Niestetal in the Kassel district in Hesse . It was founded in 1945 by Werner Bosch (1916–1992).

history

Werner Bosch completed his apprenticeship at M. Welte & Sons in Freiburg . His workshop for repairs to organs , founded shortly before the Second World War , soon became a company for building organs. After returning from captivity, Bosch began building organs in Kassel in 1945 and was able to complete his first organ just a year later. In 1947, however, he only passed his master's examination and in the same year founded the piano house in Kassel, which he managed until his death. He was inspired by famous organ builders of the 17th and 18th centuries who also worked on string instruments. He was also connected to the region in a musical tradition.

In 1954 he moved to Sandershausen , a district of Niestetal . Further moves followed. From 1957 to 1986 the piano house resided in the heart of the city of Kassel. Today the piano house is located on the Altmarkt in Kassel.

By 1999 the Bosch Orgelbau company had built over 900 organs. Historical organs are also being restored. Bosch works mainly in Germany, Japan and Korea, but also in Switzerland, Scandinavia and the USA. Werner Bosch's sons Wolfgang and Michael died in 2007 and 2012, so that his grandson Martin is now running the business in the third generation.

Works (selection)

opus	year	place	church	Manuals	register	Remarks
	1954/56	Darmstadt-Eberstadt	St. Joseph	II / P	17th	Built using parts of a Bernhard Dreymann organ from 1854 (manual drawer I, pedal drawer, 3 stops)
100	1956	Glue field	Protestant church
	1959	Gross-Gerau	Evangelical town church	III / P	37
	1959	kassel	Karlskirche	III / P	31
244	1960	Marburg	Elisabeth Church , choir organ	II / P	13
	1960	Darmstadt	Michaelskirche	II / P	26th
	1961	kassel	Christ Church	III / P	31
233	1961	Darmstadt	City Church	III / P	49	with neo-baroque disposition
	1962	kassel	Markuskirche, "Heinrich Schütz Organ"	III / P	31
300	1963	Marburg	Elisabeth Church , main organ	III / P	55	Sold to the Polish Church in 2005
327	1963	Darmstadt-Eberstadt	St. George	II / P	17th
	1964	kassel	Martinskirche	III / P	52	Disposition and scale lengths from Helmut Bornefeld ; Implemented in 2015 in the Elisabethkirche Kassel
	1965	Friedberg (Hesse)	City Church	III / P	44
	1966	kassel	Advent Church	II / P	23	in an invisible cabinet housing
655	1965/1988	Berlin	Lindenkirche	V / P	86	1988 expanded
500	1969	St. Louis , USA	Glendale Lutheran Church	II / P	19th
	1970	Frankfurt-Preungesheim	Festeburg Church	II / P	25th
	1973-1975	Darmstadt	Holy cross	II / P	21st
	1974	Witten	St. Francis Church	II / P	22nd
	1975	Bergen-Enkheim	Laurentiuskirche	II / P	27	since 2014 Evangelical Church in Mittelheim
	1976	Bad Homburg vor der Höhe	Sacred Heart Church	II / P	26th
700	1977	Guxhagen-Breitenau	Monastery church	II / P	22nd
750	1982	Fritzlar	Evangelical town church	II / P	30th
800	1987	Morges , Switzerland	Église Paroissiale	II / P	20th
842	1991	Bruchköbel	Ev. James Church	II / P	23	two free combinations
	1992	kassel	Friedenskirche	III / P	41
	1996	Fallersleben	Motherhood of Mary	II / P	19th	originally 15 registers
900	1999	Tokyo , Japan	Fujimicho Church	III / P	45
920	2005	Nidderau-Ostheim	Ev. church	II / P	16
932	2007	Seoul , Korea	Salt & Light Presbyterian Church	III / P	28
	2019	Darmstadt-Eberstadt	St. Joseph	II / P	25th	Built using numerous registers from the previous instrument (see above 1954/56) and parts of a Bernhard Dreymann organ from 1854 (Manuallade II, 3 registers)