Organ - St. Paulus in Trier

See article at this link: https://www.trierer-orgelpunkt.de/weitere-kirchen/st-paulus-ehem

The parish of St. Paul is one of the oldest parishes in Trier and has existed since at least the 8th century. Until the French Revolution, its history was closely linked to the Benedictine convent of St. Irminen, whose parish church was St. Paulus. The old church stood on the Irminenfreihof. It was to be restored in 1775, but the convent of St. Irminen had no more money after the construction of its own convent church. Elector Clemens Wenzeslaus therefore ordered the old St. Paul's Church to be closed in 1778 and assigned the new monastery church of St. Irminen to the parish for shared use. In 1790, the old St. Paul's Church was demolished, and in 1806, the tower was also demolished.

In 1794, the monastery of St. Irminen was also dissolved and the former monastery church became a parish church, which is why it was temporarily given the name "St. Paulus", causing confusion among later historians. From 1804, it was once again used for two purposes: as a parish church and as the church of the newly founded United Hospices. However, this led to tensions that only came to an end with the rebuilding of St. Paul's Church.

The organ of the old - demolished - St. Paul's Church, built in 1745/48 by Nollet, came to Ürzig in 1792. It is highly likely that some of the historical stops of this organ from Trier (Bourdon 16', Hohlflöte 8', Stillflöte 4' and Quinte 3') survived the new organ built by Voltmann in 1868 and are still playing today!

The present neo-Romanesque church was given an organ by the Württemberg company Späth from Ennetach-Mengen on the Danube (op. 326) in 1925. The opulent organ with pneumatically controlled cone chests had 2 manuals and pedal and 35 stops. The church and organ were damaged in 1944. The organ was restored in 1950 by the Trier organ builder Eduard Sebald.

See St. Maternus Urzig: https://www.pfarrei.de/uerzig/pfarrkirche-st-maternus.html

The Voltmann organ in Ürzig

The parish of St. Paulus in Trier sold its organ to Ürzig in 1791 due to the demolition and rebuilding of its church. This organ had 9 stops and came from the organ building workshop of Roman Benedict Nollet and was built in 1745 for the old church of St. Paul.

The Trier organ builder Heinrich Breidenfeld carried out extensive repairs to the organ in 1849 and added three new stops: Bourdon 16'; Stillfloete 4'; Cimbal.

In February 1866, the organ builder Heinrich Voltmann from Klausen removed the organ due to the new construction of the church. On December 1, 1867, the parish of Ürzig concluded a contract with him to build a new two-manual organ with a case using stops from the previous organ that were still usable. Cathedral organist Michael Hermesdorff accompanied the construction of the new organ

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