Orgelbau Mebold Explained

Orgelbau Mebold
Founder:Hans Peter Mebold
Products:Pipe organs
Location:Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Owner:Mathias Mebold

Orgelbau Mebold is a company building pipe organs in Siegen, Germany. It was founded in 1967 by Hans Peter Mebold (27 April 1942 – 21 July 2001), and has been run since 2018 by his son Mathias Mebold (born 1978). The company builds new organs, restores historic instruments, and specializes in portable small instruments (Truhenorgel).

Hans Peter Mebold
Birth Date:27 April 1942
Birth Place:Weidenau
Death Place:Siegen
Occupation:Organ builder
Organizations:Orgelbau Mebold

Founding

Hans Peter Mebold was born in Weidenau. He learned organ building with Hans Dentler, and worked in the workshop of, with, Günter Hardt, at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum and with . He founded the company Orgelbau Mebold in Frauenberg near Marburg in 1976. In 1979, they moved to Siegen, to the village Breitenbach. Hans Peter Mebold died in 2001.

Continuation

After Mebold's death, Johannes Tobias Späth took over, together with Marianne Mebold, the founder's widow. From 1982, he was responsible for the workshop.

, the owner is Mathias Mebold, a son of Hans Peter Mebold, born in 1978.

Organs and concerts

The company builds new organs, mostly for use in parish churches, but also in parish halls and hospitals. A typical layout combines a Great division (German: Hauptwerk) in Baroque style with a Swell division (German: Schwellwerk) with timbres of the Romantic period, which makes it possible to play a wide range of organ repertory. The company restores historic instruments. It has specialized in building small organs called Truhenorgel, which serve for accompanying choirs in church and for rehearsal.

Mebold organs have attracted notable organists to play concerts. Dan Zerfaß, organist of the Worms Cathedral, played the first concert at the organ in St. Martin, Idstein, in 2006, followed by concerts of Kalevi Kiviniemi, and the duo Giora Feidman and Matthias Eisenberg, among others. Anton Guggemos, the organist of the Wieskirche, played in St. Bardo in Petterweil, part of Karben.

Works

Among the organ builders' new instruments are:

Year Location Church / facility class=unsortable Image !Manuals Stops Notes
1970HasselbachII20 House organ, now in Essen
1982 FronhausenHeilig KreuzII 8
1986 Catholic-Apostolic ChurchIII/P 14
1987 BurgsolmsSt. ElisabethII/P 16
1988 WilnsdorfProtestant Church WilnsdorfII/P 21
1989 IhmertProtestant Church IhmertII/P17
1991Dalheim (Wetzlar)Parish CentreII/P 18
1994 Mainz-HechtsheimProtestant Parish CentreII/P 16
2000 Chapel of the DiakoniekrankenhausII 10
2002 Welschen EnnestSt. Johannes BaptistII/P 26
2005/06 St. MartinII/P 33
2007 Protestant ChurchI 10+1
2010 St. Nikolaus I 13New in 1747 case
2010 St. BardoII 15

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