Westphalian organ builder S. Sauer

Westfälischer Orgelbau S. Sauer is an organ building company in the successor to Eggert Orgelbau-Anstalt , which was taken over by Siegfried Sauer in 1973, relocated to Höxter and re-established there in 1999.

History of the company

The company's history goes back to Georg Josias Eggert. The Prussian soldier from Klein Oschersleben near Magdeburg settled in Paderborn in 1805 , where he turned to organ building in addition to carpentry in today's Adam and Eve House . After the family business in Paderborn was continued for three generations, the Cologne organ builder Anton Feith I took over the company in 1902, which he headed until 1929. During this time, the organ building company was one of the most important in Germany, the high point of the company's history was the order for the Great Organ in Paderborn Cathedral, built in 1926. Feith's son Anton Feith II ran the company until 1972. In the Feith era, around 800 organs were built between 1902 and 1972.

The new owner was Siegfried Sauer (* 1941 in Langenöls ) at the beginning of 1973 . Sauer learned organ building at Orgelbau Kreienbrink (Osnabrück) and Späth Orgelbau AG (Rapperswil) and passed the master craftsman's examination in Ludwigsburg. He took over the Stegerhoff company ( Steinheim ) and founded another company in Godelheim near Höxter, which was relocated to neighboring Ottbergen .

The company delivered around 300 new organs from 1973 to 2015, including many three- and four-manual works. There are also restorations of historical instruments.

In February 2015, the 15-employee company filed for bankruptcy . Under Sebastian Sauer and Thomas Heinemann, the company was renamed "Sauer & Heinemann", who continue the organ building tradition at the old location.

List of works (selection)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1973	Lippstadt	St. Joseph		III / P	36
1973	Oldenburg (Oldb)	St. Peter		III / P	34	original register number
1974	Rüthen	St. John		II / P	20th	Slider chests with electric action
1974	Höxter	St. Peter and Paul		II / P	23
1975	Herne	St. Boniface		IV / P	59	Originally built with 57 registers, slightly changed in 1983, renovated and expanded in 2015 by Burkhard Klimke
1975-1976	Lippstadt	Nicolaikirche		III / P	47
1977	Brakel	St. Michael		III / P	36	19 stops from the previous organ by A. Randebrock (1881)
1977	Celle	St. Ludwig		II / P	31
1978	Sundern (Sauerland)	St. John		III / P	40	19 stops taken from previous instruments ( Stockmann brothers , 1901 and Feith organ builders, 1937).
1978	Wuppertal-Barmen	St. Pius X.		II / P	24	9 registers taken from previous instruments ( Philipp Furtwängler & Söhne , 1850)
1979	Heringhausen	St. Nicholas		II / P	25th	with swellable Rückpositiv
1981/2004	Paderborn	Paderborn Cathedral		IV + III + II / P	151	two general game tables; Choir and crypt organs can largely be traced back to A. Feith; third largest church organ in Germany → organ
1982	Wattenscheid	Provost church of St. Gertrude of Brabant		III / P	45
1983	Rheine	St. Elisabeth		II / P	31
1983	Hanover	St. Bernward		II / P	34	using registers and the case from 1894 → organ
1984	Waltrop	St. Peter		II / P	36
1985	Arnsberg	Wedinghausen Monastery		III / P	50	using older registers from the previous organ by F. Eggert (1937/1949); 1995 extended → organ
1986	Cologne-Bickendorf	St. Epiphany		III / P	44
1986-1989	Bark	St. Remigius		III / P	55	Extended by 3 registers in 1995 and 2009; Clarinet 8 ′ in its own swell box
1987	Dortmund	St. Ewaldi		II / P	30th
1987	Paderborn	former Capuchin Church Monastery of St. Francis Seraph		II	21st	Weithman prospectus (built around 1700), restored by the painter Weitzner.
1988	Dortmund	Provost church of St. Johannes Baptist		III / P	52	→ organ
1990	Bremen- Vegesack / Grohn	To the holy family		II / P	23
1989	Korbach	St. Joseph		II / P	26th	Schwellwerk conceived symphonic-romantic and Rückpositiv baroque
1991	Dinklage	St. Catharina		III / P	53	Schwellwerk conceived symphonic-romantic and Rückpositiv baroque
1992	Gutersloh	St. Pancras		III / P	51	Including preserved late romantic registers. Fundamentally renovated and reorganized in 2015 by Rieger Orgelbau (Schwarzach / Vorarlberg). → organ
1992	Füchtorf	St. Mary of the Assumption		II / P	32	including older registers from the previous organ by A. Feith (1922) and Pohlmann (1851)
1992	Metelen	St. Cornelius and Cyprian		III / P	36	→ organ
1995	trier	Holy Cross Chapel		II / P	36	with French-romantic swell
1996	Wuppertal	Wuppertal City Hall		III / P	67
1996	Frankfurt am Main	Frauenfriedenskirche		III / P	45
1997	Wuppertal	St. Johann Baptist		III / P	31	→ organ
1995-1998	Barmbek	St. Sophia		IV / P	72
2002	Herzfeld (Lippetal)	Pilgrimage Church of St. Ida		III / P	47	→ organ
2003	Berlin-Spandau	Community Center St. Lambertus (Hakenfelde)		II / P	18 (23)	5 voices of the pedal work from the main work, placed compactly next to the altar island for space reasons
2004	Bottrop-Kirchhellen	St. John the Baptist		III / P	45	Extension of the organ by Franz Breil (1956, II / P / 29); electric actions
2010	Norderney	Stella Maris		II / P	20th	Reconstruction of the organ built by Kreienbrink in 1969 for the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Bremen
2014	Coesfeld	St. Jakobi		III / P	46	New construction of an organ system with main and choir organ; 20 registers from previous organ by Franz Breil taken

literature

• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 .

Web links

Commons : Westfälischer Orgelbau S. Sauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage Sauer & Heinemann

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anton Feith - Orgeln für Westfalen ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 February 5, 2017. 
2. ↑ Hermann Fischer : 100 Years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 , p. 289 .
3. ↑ Westfalen-Blatt from February 19, 2015: Orgelbau Sauer files for bankruptcy , accessed on February 5, 2017.
4. ↑ In the depiction of the organ in the Sauer workshop's disposition sheet, the church is only labeled with the place and name "Rüthen, St. Johannes". The photo shows a modern prospectus, so it cannot be the Church of St. John Baptist .
5. ↑ Three manuals are played from two manuals.
6. ^ Building history of the Capuchin Church of St. Franziskus Seraph: Interior of the Capuchin Church
7. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer, Matthias Thömmes: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 40 ). tape 4/2 : Koblenz and Trier administrative districts, Altenkirchen and Neuwied districts . Schott, Mainz 2005, ISBN 978-3-7957-1342-3 , pp. 1104 f .