Witzmann (organ builder)

Witzmann was an organ building family in Stadtilm and Kleinrudestedt, Thuringia .

history

Johann Benjamin Witzmann (born January 29, 1782 in Stadtilm; † February 7, 1814 in Stadtilm) founded the workshop. He was the son of a citizen and cooper from Stadtilm and learned organ building before 1800, presumably from Johann Andreas Schulze (1753–1806), the father of Johann Friedrich Schulze , who in turn trained with Witzmann. Johann Benjamin Witzmann became a citizen of Stadtilm in 1809 and built organs there from 1804 until his death. After tuning the organ in Ulla , Witzmann had a fatal accident on the ride home. He was a privileged organ builder in the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg .

His son August (Carl August Eduard) Witzmann (born September 8, 1809 in Stadtilm; † June 21, 1881 in Stadtilm) learned organ building from Johann Friedrich Schulze. Adam Eifert married his daughter in 1867 and became his foreman until he took over the company in 1871. August Witzmann built numerous organs from 1830 to 1871.

(Heinrich) Louis Witzmann (born August 5, 1812 in Stadtilm; † August 11, 1877 in Kleinrudestedt) was another son of Johann Benjamin Witzmann. Like his older brother, he did an apprenticeship with Johann Friedrich Schulze. Louis Witzmann became Adalbert Förtsch's teacher . He settled in Kleinrudestedt and worked there from 1840 to 1877 as an organ builder. From around 1830 to around 1840 the brothers merged as the Witzmann brothers .

(Karl-Friedrich Wilhelm) Emil Witzmann (born March 10, 1845 in Kleinrudestedt; † 1890) was the son of August Witzmann. He emigrated to America and started his own organ builder in Chicago.

Orgelbau Schönefeld sees itself through Eifert in the successor of Witzmann.

List of works (selection)

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
Early 19th century	Ulrichshalben	Village church		II / P	12	Johann Benjamin Witzmann; baroque prospectus; 2004–2008 general renovation by Schönefeld
1807	Mellingen	St. George		II / P	23	Johann Benjamin Witzmann; one of the first organs in this workshop; 1971 neo-baroque rearrangement; 1997/1998 dismantling by Schönefeld
1810	Oßmannstedt	St. Peter		II / P	21st	Johann Benjamin Witzmann
1829-1830	Schwarza	Schwarza village church		I / P	9	Johann Friedrich Schulze with August Witzmann as a journeyman
1834	Mechelroda	Mechelroda village church		I / P	8th	Witzmann Brothers; 2002 Completion of the renovation
1835-1837	Obergrunstedt	Obergrunstedt village church		II / P	9	Witzmann Brothers; with limestone train
1839	Büchel	Ortisei		II / P	23	Witzmann brothers
1839	Utzberg	St. Johannis		II / P	21st	Witzmann brothers
1839	Ulla	St. George		II / P	15th	Witzmann brothers
1840	Lehnstedt	Magdalenenkirche		I / P	11	August Witzmann
1841	Breitenhain	Breitenhain village church		II / P	14th	August Witzmann
1841	Neusiss	Neusiss village church		II / P	20th	August Witzmann
1842	Laying field	Trinity Church		II / P	14th	August Witzmann
1843	Joke life	St. Magdalene		II / P	19th	August Witzmann
1844	Lengefeld	Lengefeld village church		I / P	10	August Witzmann; largely preserved
1844	Mönchenholzhausen	St. Peter and Paul		II / P	18th	August Witzmann, including various parts of the organ by Peter Herold (1700)
1846	Schönewerda	St. John		I / P	11	August Witzmann
1848	Taubach	St. Ursula		II / P	21st	August Witzmann
1848	Haindorf	Village church		II / P	14th	Prospect pipes have been missing since 1917.
1849	Sachsenhausen	St. Kilian		II / P	20th	August Witzmann; 1999 Completion of the renovation
1851	Great, really	St. Crucis Church		II / P	31	August Witzmann; neo-Gothic prospectus
1852	Ballstedt	Ballstedt village church		II / P	10	August Witzmann; New building in the prospectus of the previous organ from the Erfurt monastery
1853	Niederroßla	Village church		II / P	21st	Reconstruction of the organ by Heinrich Nicolaus Trebs (1730); Modifications in 1818 by Johann Adam Gerhard and in 1974 by Günter Bahr; Organ acceptance in 1853 by Johann Gottlob Töpfer
1855	Krakendorf	Krakendorf village church		I / P	9	August Witzmann; 1993 outsourcing; 2005 returned to church
1856	Wippra	St. Mary		II / P	20th	August Witzmann
1860	Leubingen	St. Petri		II / P	24	August Witzmann
1861	Oetter	Village church Oettern		I / P	11	August Witzmann, inscription in the organ case: "In the year 18 .. K. Aug. Witzmann from Stadtilm built this organ ..."
1867 or 1847	Remda	Remda town church		II / P	24	August Witzmann; 2009–2013 restoration
1866	Kutzleben	Kutzleben village church		II / P	23	August Witzmann; in the baroque case of the previous organ by an unknown organ builder (1733)
1867	Smell home	Village church		II / P	14th	August Witzmann
1867	Ottmannshausen	Ottmannshausen village church		II / P	14th	August Witzmann together with Adam Eifert ; Organ acceptance by Johann Gottlob Töpfer
1868	Maua (Jena)	St. Laurence		II / P	17th	Louis Witzmann
1869	Gerbstedt	St. Johannis		II / P	28	August Witzmann; 1903 by Johann Eifert expansion to III / P / 38
1876	Niedergrunstedt	St. Mauritius		II / P	21st	August Witzmann; Organ acceptance by city organist B. Sulze and court organist Alexander Wilhelm Gottschalg
1876-1877	Bechstedtstrasse	St. Boniface		II / P	25th	August Witzmann; one of the company's last works, preserved almost unchanged
1878	Oberndorf	St. Anna		II / P	14th	August Witzmann

literature

• Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden, part 1 (A – K) (=  contributions to the music history of the Middle Rhine . Volume 2 , no. 7.1 ). Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 .
• Franz Bösken: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden, part 1 (A – L) (=  contributions to the music history of the Middle Rhine . Volume 2 , no. 7.2 ). Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1370-6 .
• Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Former province of Upper Hesse (=  contributions to the music history of the Middle Rhine . Volume 3 , no. 29.1 ). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 .
• Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine . Former Province of Upper Hesse, Part 2 (M – Z) (=  Contributions to the Middle Rhine Music History . Volume 3 , no. 29.2 ). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1331-5 .
• Hermann Fischer : 100 years of the Association of German Organ Builders . Orgelbau-Fachverlag, Lauffen 1991, ISBN 3-921848-18-0 , p. 175 .
• Uwe Pape , Wolfram Hackel (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . tape 1 : Thuringia and the surrounding area . Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 , pp. 64-65 .
• Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . tape 2 : Saxony and bypassing . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-921140-92-5 , pp. 73-75 .

Web links

• Organ building Schönefeld

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . Volume 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area. 2009, p. 339.
2. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . Volume 2: Saxony and the surrounding area. 2012, p. 435.
3. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . Volume 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area. 2009, p. 340.
4. ^ Pape: Lexicon of North German Organ Builders . Volume 2: Saxony and the surrounding area. 2012, p. 436.
5. ^ Orgelbau Schönefeld , accessed on October 15, 2016.
6. ↑ Organ in Oßmannstedt ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 April 19, 2015.