Heise organ from 1837 with extensions by Wilhelm Sauer from 1908 in the Potsdamer St. Nicholas Church.Destroyed during World War II.

Gottlieb Heise (23 March 1785 – 20 June 1847) was a German organ builder. In 1894, the renowned Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau company emerged from his Potsdam workshop.

Life

Born in Querfurt, Electorate of Saxony, Heise was trained by Georg Christian Knecht in Tübingen. In 1820, he went to Potsdam and opened an organ workshop at 50 Charlottenstraße[Anm 1] Heise was held in high esteem by the Prussian government, which promoted him. After his death in 1847, Carl Ludwig Gesell, who had previously been Heise's first assistant for eight years, took over the company. .[1]

Carl Schultze, Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller, Friedrich Kienscherf and probably also Georg Mickley were among his students.

Heise died in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia at the age of 62.

Buildings (selection)

Today, 30 new organs are known to have been built by Gottlieb Heise, mainly in the Mittelmark region, as well as rebuilds and repairs.[2] Some smaller instruments have been preserved.

New organ buildings

YearLocationBuildingPictureManualCasingNotes
1828 Kloster Lehnin Klosterkirche St. Marien I/P 11 First known new organ, replaced around 1975.[3]
1834 Tarmow Village church I/P 8 Preserved
1835 Annenwalde Dorfkirche
I/P 8 Restored[4][5]
1836 Rüdersdorf Church II/P 12 Preserved?[6]
1836 Herzberg (Mark) Church
1837 Potsdam St. Nikolai Extended by Wilhelm Sauer in 1908 to II/P, 26, destroyed in 1945.[7]
1840 Neuruppin Klosterkirche St. Trinitatis II/P 22 Not preserved.[8]
1840 Schönerlinde Village church I/P 12 Replaced in 1931.[9]
1841 Freyenstein St. Marien
I/P 13 Preserved.[10]
1841 Perwenitz Village church I/P 8 Preserved
1841 Michelsdorf St. Michaelis I/P 6 Preserved.[11]
1842 Lütte near Belzig Kirche I/P 8 Preserved
1844 Sacrow bei Potsdam Heilandskirche
1844 Friesack Church II/P 17 Destroyed in 1945.[12]
1845 Zerpenschleuse Village church I/P 9 Preserved.[13]
1846 Mariendorf bei Berlin Dorfkirche
1846 Nieder Neuendorf Dorfkirche I/P 5 Preserved
1846 Trechwitz Village church
I 5 Preserved
1846 Frankfurt (Oder) Museum Viadrina I/P 8 [14]
1847 Potsdam Friedenskirche II/P 18 Last known new organ, extended and rebuilt several times; preserved
 ? Woxfelde, Neumark, heute Głuchowo Church II/P 17 Probably not preserved.[15]

Weitere Arbeiten

YearLocationBuildingPictureManualCasingNotes
Havelberg Dom II/P 30 Umbau der Scholtze-Orgel von 1777
Kyritz St. Marien Reubke-Orgel
Saarmund Kirche

References

Further reading

  • Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau GmbH: 100 Jahre Alexander Schuke Orgelbau in Potsdam. thomasius verlag – Thomas Helms, Schwerin 1994.
  • Gottlieb Heise. In Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel, Christhard Kirchner (ed.): Lexikon norddeutscher Orgelbauer. Volume 4. Berlin, Brandenburg und Umgebung. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2017.

Remarks

  1. ↑ in the GDR-era Wilhelm-Pieck-Straße, renamed back in 1991
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