Gottlieb Heise

German organ builder (1785–1847)

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

Carl Schultze, Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller, Friedrich Kienscherf and probably also Georg Mickley 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	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	Annenwalde	Dorfkirche	I/P	8	Restored^[4]^[5]
1836	Rüdersdorf	Church	II/P	12	Preserved?^[6]
1836	Herzberg (Mark)	Church
1837	Potsdam	St. Nikolai		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	St. Marien	I/P	13	Preserved.^[10]
1841	Perwenitz	Village church	I/P	8	Preserved
1841	Michelsdorf	St. Michaelis	I/P	6	Preserved.^[11]
1842	Lütte near Belzig	Kirche	I/P	8	Preserved
1844	Sacrow 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	Dorfkirche
1846	Nieder Neuendorf	Dorfkirche	I/P	5	Preserved
1846	Trechwitz [de]	Village church	I	5	Preserved
1846	Frankfurt (Oder)	Museum Viadrina	I/P	8	^[14]
1847	Potsdam	Friedenskirche	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]

Weitere Arbeiten

Location	Building	Manual	Casing	Notes
Havelberg	Dom	II/P	30	Umbau der Scholtze-Orgel von 1777
Kyritz	St. Marien			Reubke-Orgel
Saarmund	Kirche

References

^ Gottlieb Heise Institut für Orgelforschung
^ Heise, Gottlieb
^ Lehnin, Deutschland (Brandenburg) – Evangelische Klosterkirche Sankt Marien, Orgeldatabase (Dutch)
^ Annenwalde, Deutschland (Brandenburg) – Evangelische Kirche ('Schinkel-Kirche'), Orgeldatabase, with Disposition (Dutch)
^ Templin/Annenwalde, Dorfkirche, auf organindex.de
^ Rüdersdorf bei Berlin, Deutschland (Brandenburg) – Evangelische Hoffnungskirche, Orgeldatabase (Dutch)
^ Potsdam, Deutschland (Brandenburg) – Nikolaikirche, Orgeldatabase, with Disposition (Durch)
^ Neuruppin, Deutschland (Brandenburg) – Evangelische Klosterkirche Sankt Trinitatis, Orgeldatabase
^ Schönerlinde, Deutschland (Brandenburg) – Dorfkirche, Orgeldatabase
^ Freyenstein, Deutschland (Brandenburg) – Marienkirche Orgeldatabase
^ Michelsdorf in Brandenburg, Deutschland (Brandenburg) – Sankt Michaeliskirche, Orgeldatabase, with Disposition
^ Friesack, Deutschland (Brandenburg) – Evangelische Kirche, Orgeldatabase
^ Zerpenschleuse, Deutschland (Brandenburg) – Dorfkirche, Orgeldatabase, mit Disposition
^ Frankfurt an der Oder, Deutschland (Brandenburg) – Museum Viadriana, Heise-Orgel, Orgeldatabase, with Disposition (Dutch)
^ Głuchowo, Polska (Województwo Lubelskie) – Kościół Matki Boskiej Szkaplerznej, Organ database, no information at Musicam Sacram and Wirtualne Centrum Organowe in the Lubuskie Voivodeship