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Mörlenbach, Deutschland (Hessen) - Katholische Pfarrkirche Sankt Bartholomäus
Municipal: Mörlenbach
Address: Kirchgasse 19-12, 69509, Mörlenbach
Description nr.: 2056141.
Built by: Gottfried Knaut (1767)
Short list of all locations the organ has been
Technical data
Specification
I. Manual (C-c'''): Gross Gedackt 8', Viol da Gamba 8', Prinzipal 4', Floit 4', Quinta 3', Octava 2', Sesquialter 2 fach, Mixtur 3 fach.
II. Manual (C-c'''): Gedackt 8', Spitzflöte 8', Rohrflöte 4', Nachthorn 2', Quinte 1 1/3', Zimbel 3 fach.
Pedal (C-f'): Subbass 16', Octavbass 8', Choralbass 4'.
Couplers: I. Manual - II. Manual, Pedal - I. Manual, Pedal - II. Manual.
Mörlenbach, Deutschland (Hessen) - Katholische Pfarrkirche Sankt Bartholomäus
Municipal: Mörlenbach
Address: Kirchgasse 19-12, 69509, Mörlenbach
Description nr.: 2056141.
Built by: Gottfried Knaut (1767)
Year | Builder | Opus | Activity | 1767 | Gottfried Knaut | new organ | 1971 | Erich Breitmann | restoration and enlargement | 2012 | Rainer Müller | maintenance/reparations |
- In the Sankt Bartholomäus-Kirche in Mörlenbach stands an eighteenth-century organ, built in 1767 by Gottfried Knaut. It was built for the Schlosskapelle in Heidelberg. Originally it was an organ with ten stops, a manual and pedal. When the organ was completed, the castle was largely a ruin, partly as a result of a major fire caused by a lightning strike in 1764. In 1807 the chapel was definitively closed. The organ was then sold to Mörlenbach.
- The organ was restored by Erich Breitmann in 1971, but it was also expanded with a second keyboard and the pedal has a larger compass since then. Rainer Müller carried out an overhaul in 2010.
- In the fifties of the twentieth century an attempt was made to buy the organ back for the now restored castle chapel in Heidelberg. This was not successful. A reconstruction of the Knaut organ was then built in this chapel 1982.
Short list of all locations the organ has been
1767 | Heidelberg | Schlosskapelle |
1807 | Mörlenbach | Katholische Pfarrkirche Sankt Bartholomäus |
Technical data
Number of stops per division | |
- I. Manual | 8 |
- II. Manual | 6 |
- Pedal | 3 |
Total number of stops | 17 |
Key action | Mechanical |
Stop action | Mechanical |
Windchest(s) | Slider chests |
Specification
I. Manual (C-c'''): Gross Gedackt 8', Viol da Gamba 8', Prinzipal 4', Floit 4', Quinta 3', Octava 2', Sesquialter 2 fach, Mixtur 3 fach.
II. Manual (C-c'''): Gedackt 8', Spitzflöte 8', Rohrflöte 4', Nachthorn 2', Quinte 1 1/3', Zimbel 3 fach.
Pedal (C-f'): Subbass 16', Octavbass 8', Choralbass 4'.
Couplers: I. Manual - II. Manual, Pedal - I. Manual, Pedal - II. Manual.
Links |
http://www.orgelfreunde-weinheim.de/Orgel%20M%C3%B6rlenbach.pdf |