Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau

The Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau is a company to build pipe organs, founded in 1820 in Potsdam. It was taken over by Alexander Schuke in 1894, and by his sons Karl Schuke and Hans-Joachim Schuke in 1933. From 1950, Hans-Joachim Schuke ran the workshop, now in East Germany, from 1953. It became a VEB, Potsdamer Schuke-Orgelbau in 1972, but Matthias Schuke was able to reprivatise it in 1990 after German reunification, naming it after his grandfather Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau. He moved the workshop to Werder (Havel) in 2004 and passed leadership to his sons in 2018.

History The organ builder Gottlieb Heise founded the company in Potsdam in 1820, with a workshop in a courtyeard of a complex of buildings in the historic Dutch Quarter.Torsten Müller: Orgelpfeifen nach den Regeln der Vorväter. In: Berliner Zeitung, 23 December 2017, p. 20. In 1848, his pupil took over, first together with Gustav Schulz who soon founded his own workshop. His son Carl Eduard Gesell became head of the company in 1868. When he died without children in 1994, Alexander Schuke bought the company and made it one of the best-known organ building workshops in Brandenburg. When he died in 1933, his two sons, Karl Schuke and Hans-Joachim Schuke led the company jointly.Fischer: 100 Jahre Bund deutscher Orgelbaumeister. 1991, p. 301.

During World War II, Hans-Joachim Schuke was a Soviet prisoner of war. In 1950 the brothers decided to found a second workshop in West Berlin because of deteriorating conditions, both politically and economically, for manufacturing in the GDR. Hans-Joachim Schuke led the Potsdam section, while Karl Schuke moved to the new Karl Schuke Berliner Orgelbauwerkstatt. In 1972, the Potsdam branch became a state-owned Volkseigener Betrieb VEB Potsdamer Schuke-Orgelbau.

After German reunification, Matthias Schuke, in the third generation and working in the company from 1974, was able to reprivatise the workshop in 1990. He named it after his grandfather Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau. He moved the company to new premises in Werder (Havel) in 2004.Orgelbauer. orgellandschaftbrandenburg.de; retrieved 17 July 2018.

Schuke erhielt wichtige Aufträge für den Neubau von Orgeln für den Dom zu Erfurt, den Dom zu Magdeburg, den Dom zu Kaliningrad und auch für den Dom zu Zamora in Mexiko. Im 20. Jahrhundert In October 2018, Matthias Schuke passed leadership to his sons Johannes und Michael Schuke.

Musicologists appreciated the "romantic and symphonic sound" of Schuke organs, caused by diligent choice of material for the pipes and the production in their own workshop.

List of works The company's list of works has more than 630 new organs built between 1895 und 2024, more than 60 restoration works as of 2017, and expansions of existing organs.

The following selected works list features their year of completion, opus location, name of the building, an image, the numbers of manuals, pedals (P) and stops and, if available, an additional reference, notes, a link, and an external link to the entry on the organindex.de website.

Year Op. Location Building Image Manuals Stops Notes 1895 1 I/P 7Schuke-Werkverzeichnis Stand 2018, p. 25. designed by Carl Eduard Gesell → 1906 28 Lübben (Spreewald) II/P 29 1908 45 Golßen Stadtkirche II/P 18 Schuke gibt in seinem Werkverzeichnis das Baujahr 1908 sowie 14 Register an; 2010 von Scheffler restauriertRomantische Klangfülle in Golßener Stadtkirche; retrieved 17 July 2018. 1908 48 Toppel Dorfkirche I/P 4 heute in der Stadtkirche Bad Belzig, restauriert → Orgel 1911 64 Berlin-Schmöckwitz Dorfkirche II/P 8 → Orgel 1912 75 Großbeeren evang. Kirche II/P 18 → Orgel --> 1935 146 Zehlendorf (Berlin) II/P 25 Pionieering instrument of the organ reform movement; first Schleifladeninstrument of the company with mechanic tracture → organ 1936 153 Potsdam St. Peter and Paul III/P 41 → organ 1953 243 Stendal St. Nikolaus III/P 56 → 1963 337 Tbilisi, Georgia Tbilisi State Conservatoire III/P 40 1966 371 Leipzig Thomaskirche III/P 47 dismantled in 1999, 42 stops and other parts used for the Fürstenwalde Cathedral in 2005 1969 402 Magdeburg transsept organ III/P 37 1969 404 Bonn-Rüngsdorf Erlöserkirche III/P 341970407BerlinSophienkircheII/P29→ Orgel 1971 418 Lutherstadt Wittenberg Unbefleckte Empfängnis I/P 7 → Orgel 1971 420 Quedlinburg Stiftskirche St. Servatius II/P 28 1972 427 Neubrandenburg St. Michael I/P 6 → Orgel 1972 429 Anklam St. Marien (Marienkapelle) I/p 5 Orgelpositiv 1973 437 Dresden Diakonissenhauskirche II/P 32 → Orgel 1973 Hannover Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien, Raum E33 II/P 15 → Orgel 1973 442 Erfurt Wigbertikirche II/P 24 → Orgel 1973 443 Potsdam Baptistenkirche II/P 10 → Orgel 1973 444 Petershagen-Eggersdorf Dorfkirche Eggersdorf II/P 10 → Orgel 1973 446 Herzberg (Elster) Corpus-Christi-Kirche I/P 6 1973 448 Sofia Konzerthalle III/P 55 1974 438 Leipzig-Connewitz Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche II/P 28 1974 452 Ratingen-Breitscheid ev. Waldkirche Linnep II/P 12 in einem um 1800 entstandenen Gehäuse, das bei zwei Umbauten 1888 und 1934 erhöht und verbreitert wurde 1975 456 Düsseldorf-Bilk ehem. Bruderkirche II/P 19 2020 verkauft nach Madrid → Orgel 1976 463 Sangerhausen Herz-Jesu-Kirche II/P 22 2008 neu intoniert 1977 469 Schalksmühle Erlöserkirche II/P 20 1977 470 Erfurt Predigerkirche III/P 56 hinter dem Prospekt von Ludwig Compenius (1648), als Ersatz für eine Walcker-Orgel mit III/60, 2000 Einbau einer Setzeranlage, 2010 Überholung durch Orgelbau Kutter → Orgel 1978 486 Falkensee St. Konrad I/P 7 geteilte Schleifen → Orgel--> 1981 499 Leipzig Gewandhaus IV/P 91 expanded by 2 stops in 2008 1988 552 Varna, Bulgaria Festival Centre III/P 53 1992 583 Erfurt Erfurt Cathedral III/P 63 → organ 1994 595 Tangermünde St. Stephan III/P 32 Restoration and reconstruction of the organ by (1624) 1994 596 Templin Maria-Magdalenen-Kirche III/P 38 Gehäuse von 1767 → Orgel 1995 598 Rinteln Jakobi-Kirche II/P 22 1996 599 Potsdam-Nattwerder Dorfkirche I/P 8 Gehäuse von 1797 → Orgel--> 1997 606 Lublin, Poland III/P 51 2003 614 Spandau St. Marien am Behnitz II/P 35 2005 613 Fürstenwalde St. Mary's Cathedral IV/P 69 using parts of Op. 371, built in 1966 for the Thomaskirche in Leipzig (III/P/47) 2006 616 Kaliningrad, Russia Königsberg Cathedral II/P 32 → choir organ 2008 618 Kaliningrad, Russia Königsberg Cathedral IV/P 90 → main organ 2008 619 Magdeburg Magdeburg Cathedral, main organ IV/P 93 2008 620 Zamora de Hidalgo, Mexiko Diocesan Sanctuary of Our Lady of Guadalupe III/P 51 2014 630 Pingtung City, Taiwan Pingtung Performing Arts Center III/P 45 2016 632 Kharkiv, Ukraine Philharmonic building IV/P 70

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