Gottlieb Heise

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, , who had previously been Heise's first assistant for eight years, took over the company. .^[1]

, , and probably also 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

Year	Location	Building	Picture	Manual	Casing	Notes
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				I/P	8	Restored[4][5]
1836	Rüdersdorf	Church		II/P	12	Preserved?[6]
1836	Herzberg (Mark)	Church
1837	Potsdam				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			I/P	13	Preserved.[10]
1841		Village church		I/P	8	Preserved
1841	Michelsdorf	St. Michaelis		I/P	6	Preserved.[11]
1842	near Belzig			I/P	8	Preserved
1844	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
1846				I/P	5	Preserved
1846	[de]	Village church		I	5	Preserved
1846	Frankfurt (Oder)	Museum Viadrina		I/P	8	[14]
1847	Potsdam			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]

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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.

External links[]

• Gottlieb Heise Institut für Orgelforschung
• Chronik von A. Schuke-Orgelbau
• 21 Heise-Orgeln Orgeldatabase (niederländisch)
• Johann Gottlieb Heise Organindex, Orgeln

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