Wilhelm Schwarz & Son

Wilhelm Schwarz & Son
legal form	one-man business
founding	1873
Seat	Ueberlingen , Germany
management	Wilhelm August Schwarz (1848–1912) Friedrich Wilhelm Schwarz (1874–1936)
Branch	Organ building

Large organ of the Salem Minster: console

Large organ of the Salem Minster: crescendo indicator with organ builder identification

Great organ of the Salem Minster: lead pipes of the pneumatic action

Wilhelm Schwarz & Sohn was an organ building workshop in Überlingen on Lake Constance .

history

The company's founder was Wilhelm August Schwarz (born May 4, 1848 in Mundelfingen , † January 20, 1912 in Überlingen). He was trained by Joseph Braun in Spaichingen and married his daughter in 1874. Together with Xaver Mönch , he founded an organ building workshop in Überlingen in 1873. As early as 1875, the two went their separate ways. Until around 1897, only mechanical cone chest organs were built, of which u. a. the works in Mahlspüren / Hegau, Burgweiler , Seelfingen, Friedenweiler, Bodman and Hindelwangen have received.

The son Friedrich Wilhelm Schwarz d. Ä. (* July 10, 1874 in Überlingen; † January 11, 1936 in Überlingen) was employed in a managerial position in his father's company from 1903 at the latest and was sole owner from 1911. In the years after 1900 the company advanced to become the most important organ builder in Baden, alongside the Durlacher Werkstätte Voit .

From the period between 1900 and 1915 are u. a. the organs in the Salem Minster, in Wittichen, Engelswies , St. Blasien, Gengenbach, Altheim im Bauland, Meßkirch (Old Catholic Church) and in the Pfullendorfer hospital have been preserved. The instruments of those years were almost all equipped with pneumatic cone chests. The early pneumatic instruments have console tables that are strongly reminiscent of those by Steinmeyer (Oettingen).

The largest organ built during this period with 67 registers is still in a decommissioned state in the town church of Bühl (Baden).

The grandson of the company founder, Friedrich Wilhelm Schwarz the Elder, was from 1929 to 1937. J. (* 1906 in Überlingen) sole owner. He got into serious financial problems and tried to use unfair methods to save the company from imminent bankruptcy . In 1937 he was u. a. sentenced to long imprisonment for fraud , defamation and aiding and abortion . A preserved organ from him is in the castle church in Heiligenberg.

The cousin Josef Schwarz (born November 5, 1890 in Donzdorf ; † January 25, 1959 in Überlingen) then took over the workshop. A preserved organ from this time is in Röhrenbach.

On May 1, 1955, the company was taken over by Eugen Pfaff (* May 7, 1905 in Ofteringen ; † August 7, 1977 in Überlingen). The company was expanded to include the addition (owner E. Pfaff) . From 1977 until the company closed down in 2015, his son Egbert Pfaff (born July 19, 1944 in Bühlertal ) was the sole owner under the company name Orgelbau Egbert Pfaff .

Works

The workshop built u. a. the following organs:

year	opus	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1876		Fischbach near Villingen
1877		Beeches (Odenwald)
1877		Ühlingen					receive
1877		Churches near Geisingen
1878		Ewattingen	St. Gallus		II / P		received changed
1878		Grinding in the Hegau	St. Vitus				preserved and restored
1878		Tiengen im Breisgau	Protestant church				preserved and restored
1879		Aulfingen
1880		Lellwangen					preserved and restored
1880		Röhrenbach					received greatly changed
1881		Owingen	St. Peter and Paul				received changed
1881		Birkendorf					not preserved, parts in the organ
1883	op.25	Honstetten					1967 sold to Kehl-Marlen St.Arbogast. Still available there.
1884	op. 27	Seelfingen					receive
1884	op. 28	Burgweiler	Parish Church of St. Blaise				preserved, restored in 2018 by Stehle-Orgelbau GmbH
1886		Sunthausen
1887		Neuhausen on the Baar
1887		Hausen in the valley					Wind chests and parts of the pipework preserved
1887	op. 41	Singing at the Hohentwiel	Old Catholic St. Thomas Church			receive
1887		Schlatt im Breisgau					receive
1888		Lichtenau	Protestant church				receive
1889		Esslingen on the Baar					received changed
1890	op. 50	Baden-Baden	Holy Sepulcher Monastery				received changed
1890	op. 51	Gutenstein on the Danube	St.Gallus				Housing and parts of the pipework preserved
1891	op. 56	Hindelwangen					preserved and restored
1891		Mühlenbach					Advice G.Schweitzer
1891	op. 61	Bodman	St. Peter and Paul				received, advice from Ernst de Werra
1892	op.64	Friedenweiler					received, mechan. Sill, restored in 2010
1893		Weisweil					receive
1893	op. 68	Jechtingen
1893	op. 69	Grüningen (Baden)					receive
1894	op. 71	Tunsel	St. Michael				received changed, advice G. Schweitzer
1894		Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl					preserved and restored
1895		Power on
1896		Bad Bellingen					Since 2007 in the Protestant church Wolfshagen / Uckermark received with modifications, St. Leodegar received a new organ from Metzler Orgelbau
1897		Rheinsheim
1897		Zell am Harmersbach	Maria in chains
1897		Zoo
1898	op. 86	Pfaffenweiler in the Black Forest					received, tube pneumatics
1899		Haueneberstein					1957 reconstruction Pfaff, 2008 new building Matz & Luge, various pipes preserved
1899	op. 92	Balzfeld					preserved and restored
1899	op. 94	Gengenbach	Catholic parish church of St. Marien				received, collaboration with Joseph Dettlinger based on a design by Max Meckel
1900		Bonndorf near Überlingen					received greatly changed
1900		Shadows
1901	op. 100	Salem	Münster , Dreifaltigkeits-Organ (Great Organ)				Work in an already existing classicist prospectus received
1901	op. 101	Altheim near Meßkirch					Housing and pipework preserved
1901	op.103	Messkirch	City Church of St. Martin				Windchest and pipework preserved, prospectus sold in 1959; is now in the town church of Aalen
1902	op. 109	Amolts					received, advice G. Schweitzer
1902	op.106	Epfenhofen					received, advice from Ernst de Werra
1902		Hierbach					received changed
1902		Malschenberg					Advice to Franz Steinhart
1902	op.107	Sinzheim	Parish Church of St. Martin				pneumatic, restored in 1989
1902		Ohlsbach
1903	op.112	Engelswies	Pilgrimage church to Our Lady of Sorrows Engelswies				received with changes of disposition
1903		Wolterdingen					received greatly changed
1903		Gissigheim
1903		Radolfzell	Munster of Our Lady				Housing received
1904	op.119	Eggingen					received, 2010 general overhaul by Mönch
1904		Bretzingen
1904		Hörden					Housing and some registers preserved, advice from Franz Steinhart
1904		Büßlingen					received changed
1904	op. 124	Großweier	St. Martin			19th	preserved / restored
1905	op.123	Höllstein					received changed, two Vacatkanzellen, advice G. Schweitzer
1905	op. 127	Bamlach					since 2012 in the monastery of the Holy Cross Sisters in Bratislava, preserved changed
1905	op.128	Dittwar					receive
1905	op. 129	Schapbach					2013 Mediation by Andreas Schmidt to Luckow / Uckermark village church, original preserved
1905	op.131	Oberlauda					receive
1905	op. 132	Messkirch	Church of Our Lady				receive
1905	op. 133	Hammereisenbach
1906	op. 134	Moosbronn	Pilgrimage Church of Maria Hilf				Advice to Franz Steinhart
1906	op. 136	Large cattle field					receive
1906	op. 137	Steinsfurt					only housing received
1906	op. 138	Wyhlen
1907	op. 140	Ehingen im Hegau
1907	op. 141	Schönfeld
1907	op. 142	Pfullendorf	Holy Spirit Hospital				mechanical drawer
1907	op. 144	Muggensturm	Mary Queen		II / P	26th	preserved, restored
1907		Boxberg
1908	op. 151	Altheim in building land	St. Valentine			20th	preserved and restored
1908		Bonndorf in the Black Forest	St. Peter and Paul
1908		Eubigheim
1908		Schönau in the Black Forest	Assumption Day		III / P	41	1956–1959 Expansion with a positive return
1908		Tauberbischofsheim	Martin's Chapel				1945 to Mannheim, Herz Jesu Church, today received in Bremen-Walle St. Immanuel
1909		Wittichen	Monastery church				receive; restored in 2007
1909		Villingen	Munster of Our Lady			31	Replaced in 1978
1909		Buchheim im Breisgau
1909		Herbolzheim im Breisgau					receive; restored in 2008
1909		Kaltbrunn
1909		Bachheim near Löffingen
1910		Mannheim-Waldhof
1910	op. 161	Neustadt in the Black Forest	St. James			30th	rebuilt by Dold in the 1950s, replaced in 1995
1910	op.162	Schuttertal					preserved and restored
1910	op.165	Schlatt on the edge					receive
1911	op. 166	Freudenberg am Main
1911	op. 167	Deggenhausen					Housing received
1911	op.169	Ketch on the Rhine
1911	op. 170	Urach in the Black Forest
1912	op.172	Low water
1912	op. 173	Odenheim					received greatly changed
1912	op.175	Meersburg (location unknown)
1912	op. 176	Nesselried	Parish Church of the Assumption			15th
1912	op.178	Offenburg	Trinity Church				received greatly changed
1912	op.179	Mauchen					received changed
1912	op.181	Unterwittighausen
1913	op.182	St. Blasien	St. Blasien Cathedral		III / P	54	receive
1913	op. 185	Thigh cell					received technically heavily modified
1914	op.186	Waldkirch near Waldshut					received changed
1914	op. 187	Kirchhofen im Breisgau
1914		Zurich
1914		Waldkirch im Breisgau
1916		Windischbuch
1919	op. 191	Worblingen					received changed
1919		Krautheim an der Jagst
1920		Tennenbronn
1921		Basadingen	Parity Church of St. Martin		II / P	16	Replaced work by Friedrich Haas , housing preserved. [1]
1922		Neudenau
1922		Grunts					receive
1923	op. 208	Beat					receive
1924		Freiburg-Wiehre
1924		Baden-Baden-Weststadt	St. Bernhard		III / P	46	Completion of the Voit organ from 1921, reconstruction in 1958, restored in 2008.
1924		Schonach
1925	op. 213	Constancy	Zoffingen Monastery
1925		Kappel near Villingen					received changed
1926	op. 219	Oedsbach					receive
1926	op. 220	Mexico
1928	op. 224	Bühl (Baden)	St. Peter and Paul		III / P	67	→ organ
1928	op. 225	Nöggenschwiel					received greatly changed
1928	op. 226	St. Blasien	Protestant church				received greatly changed
1928	op. 227	Gamshurst					(Used organ from Bühl) only free pipe housing preserved
1928	op. 229	Tillna in Colombia
1929	op. 232	Belen in Colombia
1929	op. 234	Allensbach	Catholic Church				receive
1930	op. 237	Heiligenberg	Castle Church				receive
1930	op.240	Blumegg					receive
1930	?	Villingen	St. Fidelis
1931	op. 243	Überlingen on Lake Constance	Protestant church				received greatly changed
1932	op. 245	Ambado in Ecuador
1934	op. 247	Bad Säckingen	Fridolin Minster				Housing and tuba 32 'preserved
1934	op. 249	Oberbiederbach					preserved, restored by ER Hartenthaler
1934	op. 250	Spanjaard in Holland
1934	op. 251	Wessingen, district of Bisingen	Catholic Church of St. Wolfgang				original preserved, restored
1935	op. 252	Watterdingen
1935	op. 253	Mosbach	catholic parish church
1937		Ottersweier					partially preserved, shut down
1941		Unzhurst					original received
between 1937/1943		Seebach					received changed
between 1937/1943		Boehringen					received changed
between 1937/1943		Furtwangen					not preserved, in the case of the previous organ by Martin Braun, Hofen near Spaichingen
between 1937/1943		Reiselfingen
between 1937/1943		Schönenbach in the Black Forest
between 1937/1943		Röhrenbach					Preserved, electro-pneumatic conversion of the Schwarz organ from 1880
between 1937/1943		Fischbach near Villingen
1942		Faulbach
1942/1943		Bilfingen
1942/1943		Ottenhöfen
1943/1944		Bräunlingen
1950		Yach near Elzach			II	27	pneumatic, preserved, brochure & disposition similar to Seebach
1957		Grafenhausen
1957		Kippenheim
1957		Sub-bellies
1957		Run (bathing)
1958		Offenburg	Trinity Church				preserved, electro-pneumatic reconstruction of the Schwarz organ from 1912
1962		Bühl, Niederbronn sisters	Monastery church
1964		Lautenbach in the Renchtal
1965		Achkarren
1965		Fiefdom
1966		Nussbach (Oberkirch)
1966		Baden-Baden-Bellow	St. Eucharius
1968		Loeffingen
1968		Überlingen	Münster main organ
1969		Short					Parts of the organ taken over from 1887
1970		Leutershausen	St. John Baptist		II	20th
1971		Birkendorf
1971		Esseratsweiler
1972		Rheinheim
1973		Heidelberg-Boxberg	St. Paul		II / P	25th
1974		Bernau
1975		Zell am Andelsbach	St. Peter and Paul
1976		Waldsassen	Collegiate basilica choir organ				Preserved today in Trausnitz im Tal, new Georg Jann building in 1983
1977		Stollhofen
1983		Dietershofen near Meßkirch	St. Nicholas
1983		Wiesenbach
1984		Bronnen near Waldshut, monastery
1986		Illmensee
1992		Oestringen
1993		Bietingen near Meßkirch
1993		Utzenstorf (Switzerland)	St. Peter and Paul (Utzenstorf)		II / P	15th
1994		Andelshofen

The following organs are no longer preserved

year	opus	place	Remarks
1875		Überlingen, Evang. church	not received
1875		Billafingen	not received
1875		Denkingen near Pfullendorf	not received
1876		Meersburg, Evang. church	not received
1876		Bergheim near Markdorf	not received
1879		Limpach	not received
1881		Liggeringen	not received
1882		Stockach, Catholic parish church	not received
1882		Bermatingen	not received
1882		Merdingen	not received
1883		Niederhausen im Breisgau	not received
1884	op. 26	Dettingen near Constance	not received
1884	op. 29	Stockach, Evang. church	not received
1884	op. 30	Laufenburg	not received
1885		Espasingen	not received
1886		Singing at Hohentwiel, Evang. church	not received
1886		Rust	not received
1887		Kappel near Neustadt (Black Forest)	not received
1887	op. 36	Short	not preserved, parts taken over in 1967 during the renovation
1887		Erlach near Oberkirch	not received
1887	op. 38	Neuhausen im Hegau	receive
1887	op. 39	Bräunlingen	not received
1889		Überlingen, Münster	not received, advice Johann Baptist Molitor
1889		Upper garlic rings	not received
1889		Grafenhausen near Waldshut	not received
1890		Berghaupten	not received, mechan. Step sills
1890	op. 55	Vimbuch	not received
1891	op.57	Meersburg, seminary church	not received
1891		Poking	not received
1891		Schonach	not received
1892		Nussbach	not received
1892		Oberschwandorf	not received
1892		Waldau , St. Nicholas	not received
1892		Welschensteinach	not preserved, case and 6 stops from the previous organ by Mathias Martin 1805, advice from Gustav Schweitzer
1893	op. 67	Bohlingen	not received, mechan. Step sills
1893	op. 70	Seefelden	not received
1894		Schluchsee	not received
1895		Hausach on the Black Forest Railway	not received, pedal and stop action pneumatic tube, advice from G.Schweitzer
1895		Bühl, Catholic parish church	not received, came to Gamshurst in 1928, not received there, advice Gageur
1896		Sipplingen	not received
1896		Hornberg in the Black Forest	nothing received
1897		Freiburg im Breisgau, mother house (which)	not received
1897		Ortenberg	not received
1897	op. 80	Zizenhausen	not received
1898		Friedingen im Hegau	not received
1898		Malsch near Wiesloch	not preserved, 1974 new building by Weise
1898	op.88	Öhningen on Lake Constance	not received
1898		Wallbach	not received
1898		Todtnau	not received, advice G. Schweitzer
1899		Moos near Bühl	not received, advice G. Schweitzer
1900	op. 99	Eisental	not preserved, case today in Ettlingenweier, pipes today partly in a new organ in Marxzell-Pfaffenrot, advice from Franz Steinhart
1900		Wagshurst	not preserved, various registers in the current organ
1901	op.102	Allensbach , Hegne Monastery	not received
1901	op. 104	Ball rights	not received
1902		Haslach in the Kinzigtal	not received
1902		Nollingen	not received
1905	op. 125	Erzingen	not received
1905	op. 126	Wolfach	not received
1905	op. 130	Wool mat	not received
1906	op. 135	Bad Rippoldsau	not received, advice G. Schweitzer
1907	op. 139	Elchesheim	not received
1908		Höchenschwand	not received
1908		Malsch near Karlsruhe	not received, advice Franz Steinhart
1908	op. 149	Oflingen	not received, advice G. Schweitzer
1908		Rettigheim	not received
1909		Zoznegg	not received
1910	op.164	Flexing	not received
1911	op.168	Rheinheim am Hochrhein	not received
1912	op. 180	Ehrenstetten	not received
1911	op.171	Lifeblood	not received
1912	op.174	Durmersheim, Maria Bickesheim	not preserved, various registers preserved in Mönch's new building
1912	op. 177	Neudorf near Bruchsal	not received
1913		Singing at the Hohentwiel, St. Petrus and Paulus	not received
1913		Offenburg, Holy Cross	not preserved, NB Hess 1957, Winterhalter 2002
1913		Denzlingen	not received
1916		Freiburg-Littenweiler	not received
1919		Herbolzheim an der Jagst	not preserved, new organ building in Freiburg in 1980
1919	op. 195	Cheeks on Lake Constance	not received
1921	op. 201	Oos near Baden-Baden	not preserved, 2 stops in today's organ
1921	op. 200	Freiburg im Breisgau, St. Martin	not preserved, new building Dold 1956
1922		Grafenhausen pneum. modification	not received
1922		Ettenheim	not preserved, new building four 1975
1923		Tiengen on the Upper Rhine	not received
1924		Freiburg im Breisgau, St. Johann	not received
1925		Seebach	not received
1925	op. 211	Singing at the Hohentwiel, Herz Jesu	not received
1925	op. 212	Teningen	not received
1925		Wyhl am Kaiserstuhl	not received
1925	op. 217	Überlingen on Lake Constance, Münster	not received
1926	op. 218	St. Trudpert in the Münstertal	not received
1927	op. 221	Freiburg-St. George	not received
1927	op. 222	Karlsruhe, Vincentius Hospital	not received
1927	op. 223	Heidelberg, Orthopedic Clinic	not received
1929	op. 230	Ebersteinburg	not received
1929	op. 231	Pforzheim, Heart of Jesus	not received
1928	op. 228	Pforzheim, St. Francis	not received
1929	op. 233	Hinterzarten	not received
1929	op. 235	Rietheim near Villingen	not received
1930	op. 236	Istein in the Markgräflerland	not received
1930	op. 238	Mimmenhausen	did not receive advice from Richard Hoff
1930	op. 239	Strittmatt	not preserved, new building 2005
1931	op. 242	Achern, cath. City parish church	not received
1931	op. 241	Sasbachried	not received
1933	op. 246	Markdorf, cath. City parish church	not received
1934	op. 248	Hügelsheim (used organ from Münster Bad Säckingen)	not received
1936	op. 254	Sulzbach in building land	not received
1943/1944		Todtnau	not preserved, Rieger organ
1949		Worndorf	not preserved, 2007 new building Stehle
1959		Weingarten (Ortenau)	not preserved, new Winterhalter building
1975		Waldsassen, Stiftsbasilika main organ	not preserved, new building Georg Jann 1989
1991		Hechingen, collegiate church choir organ	not received, sold

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Schwarz: The great organ in the town church of St. Blasien. A historical appraisal of the earlier organ and a description of the present organ by its builder, FW Schwarz, master organ builder in Überlingen on Lake Constance. Self-published, Überlingen 1924.
• Bühler: About organs and organ builders in Überlingen. In: Festschrift for the consecration of the organ St. Nikolaus-Münster Überlingen / Bodensee. 1968, pp. 9-13.
• The Schwarz organ (1913) of the cathedral and parish church of St. Blasien. In: Ars Organi , 26, 1978, issue 55, pp. 292-295.
• Wolfgang Manecke, Johannes Mayr, Mark Vogl: Historic organs in Upper Swabia - the district of Ravensburg. Lindenberg 2006. (There especially p. 275 with further references.)
• Horst Schmidt: The organs of the Waldshut district. Eggingen 1989.
• Bernd Sulzmann: The Martin family organ builders in Waldkirch im Breisgau. Wiesbaden 1975.
• Bernd Sulzmann: Historical organs in Baden. Munich / Zurich 1980.
• Wilhelm Weitzel: Church music statistics of the Archdiocese of Freiburg. Karlsruhe 1927.
• The Catholic Church Singer (monthly of the Cecilia Association of the Archdiocese of Freiburg). Div. Vintages.
• Andreas Schmidt, Schmidt Organ Archives (Switzerland).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Orgelbau Maier as successor to Mr. Pfaff and his organ building company. Orgelbau Maier, March 2015, accessed on April 25, 2017 . 
2. ^ Organ renovation is complete, in: Schwäbische Zeitung, May 27, 2018, Sigmaringen edition
3. ↑ St. Leodegar Bad Bellingen
4. ↑ Degott, Matthias: The Black-organ of the town church to Gengenbach. (PDF; 30 kB) August 1988, accessed on July 28, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Werner Wolf-Holzäpfel: The architect Max Meckel 1847-1910. Studies on the architecture and church building of historicism in Germany . Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2000, ISBN 3-933784-62-X . , P. 217 f.

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