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Chronicle - Hermann Eule Orgelbau
 

1872 - 1929 Hermann Eule active (1846 - 1929)

 Dom Bautzen, opus 119 III/62, edified 1910
     
Hermann Eule 1861 Organ construction apprenticeship and assistant years under
Leopold Kohl in Bautzen
   
1868 Journeyman years, employed by Carl Voigt in Halberstadt and
Balthasar Schlimbach in Würzburg
   
1872 26 January, foundation of the organ builder workshop Hermann
Eule in Bautzen. Up to 1900 80 new mechanical kegel lade
organs were built (largest organ: Bautzen Maria-Martha-Church,
2 Manuals, 38 Registers)
   
1900 Gradual conversion to pneumatic taschenlade organs
   
1910 Largest organ in his working life: Bautzen Cathedral - protestant
section, III/62 (pneumatic stop combinations)
The organ still exists.
   
1929 Opus 173
 
 
1929 - 1957 Johanna Eule active (1877 - 1970) 1933 Restoration Crostau, G. Silbermann 1732
     
Johanna Eule 1929 Hermann Eule’s daughter took over the management of the
company. A workforce of experienced employees and master
craftsmen stood by her.
In accordance with the zeitgeist the type of tone changed from
the romantic to that influenced by the baroque and neo-baroque.
   
1930 The newly built organ in Döbeln, Nikolaikirche, Size III/57 is
an interesting exemplar of this epoch.
The organ has remained unchanged and was overhauled by
us in 2001
   
1933 The first organ restoration
(Gottfried-Silbermann organ in Crostau)
   
1936 First large, new schleiflade organ for the St. Pauli-Kreuz Church
in Chemnitz, 3 manuals, 39 registers, electrical action.
   
1948 Largest organ in her working life:
Leipzig University Church IV/80 (rebuild)
   
1953 General transition to schleiflade organs with mechanical actions.
Study of old masters’ mensuration art and its incorporation into
organ construction which also provided the basis for the
beginning of extensive organ restoration in accordance with
historical preservation guidelines.
     
  1957 Opus 300  
 
 
1957 - 1971 Hans Eule ative (1923 - 1971) Dom Zwickau, opus 327 III/77, edified 1966-1969
     
Hans Eule 1959 Master’s examination, subsequent expansion to c. 40 employees
   
  Tightening of work organisation so that extremely efficient manufacture of individual pieces could be achieved. This
allowed prices to be kept at an affordable level. Introduction
of new materials which promised better resistance to climatic changes. The new instruments created in his working life
have a consistently neo-baroque type of tone.
   
1961 Start of buoyant export activities
(Sweden, the Soviet Union, West Germany).
Up until his early death 29 new organs were supplied to West Germany and assembled and tuned by the company’s
employees onsite.
   
1969 Largest organ in his working life: Zwickau Cathedral IV/77
   
1971 Opus 420
 
 
1971 - 2005 Ingeborg Eule active (b. 1925)
1976 Restoration Altenburg Schloßkirche,H. G. Trost 1735-39
 
Kathetrale St. Sebastian Magdeburg, opus 637 III/56, edified 2005

     
Ingeborg Eule 1971 After her husband’s death Ingeborg took over the management
of the company. Just as in Johanna Eule’s time a workforce of experienced employees and master craftsmen stood by her.
   
1971 Retention of the extensive export activities
   
1972 Forced nationalisation of the East German company (Bautzen
is in East Germany). ) In her efforts to preserve the 100 year old company she made herself available to run the company as
General Manager.
   
1976

Restoration in accordance with historical preservation principles assumed an increasing importance. A milestone that should be mentioned here was the rebuilding of the Trost organ in the
Castle Church, Altenburg.
   
1988 Transfer of the General Manager’s position to Organ master
Armin Zuckerriedel, who had been employed by the company
since 1970.
   
1990 Re-privatisation of the company. The owner is Mrs. Ingeborg
Eule once again. Maintenance of the company’s size of
c. 40 employees.
In the following years the company’s building was enlarged
and its machinery was almost completely renewed.
   
  The romantic epoch assumed increasing importance in the
design of the tone for new organs. Restorations of organs by Ladegast, Walcker, and Steinmeyer and from our own work-
shops are an indispensable source of knowledge for this.
But baroque organs also continued to be restored remaining
true to the original builder. A selection of organs restored in the
past few years includes instruments by Gottfried Silbermann,
Zacharias Hildebrandt, Heinrich Gottfried Trost,
Tobias Schramm, Johann Gottlieb Tamitius, Johann Gottlob
Trampeli and Johann Christian Kayser.
   
2000 Conclusion of the restoration of the Zacharias-Hildebrandt organ Naumburg St. Wenzel, which began in 1993, remaining true to
the original builder and the acceptance report from J. S. Bach and
G. Silbermann from 27 September 1746
   
2004 Largest organ in her working life: Leipzig Nikolaikirche V/103
   
2005 Opus 637
       
 
Since 2005 Anne-Christin Eule active (b. 1975) Lüchow, St. Johannes Kirche, 2006 opus 648 III/47
     
Anne-Christin Eule 2003 final of stadies, Dipl.-Betriebswirtin (FH)
   
2005 Ingeborg Eule’s granddaughter took over control of the company (organ construction apprenticeship 1994 -1997)
   
  Largest organ in her working life to date:
Lüchow St. Johannis III/43
   
2006 For the first time in 106 years new kegelladen were built again
for the expansion of the Walcker-Organ in the State Academy
Chapel in St. Petersburg/Russia which was built in 1891.
   
2007 Opus 654 was created for t he Mozarteum in Salzburg
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