Geißler organ in the Frauenkirche Groitzsch

After his apprenticeship and assistantship with Weineck, Mende, Ladegast and Walcker, Conrad Geißler (1825 - 1897) ran his own workshop in Eilenburg from 1852 to 1897. During this time he built around 120 organs. Ladegast and Geißler remained close even after Geißler's work with Ladegast. Between 1864 and 1873 he built four organs on Ladegast's behalf. He built his largest organ with three manuals and 44 registers for the town church in Torgau (no longer extant). In 1885 he built the two-manual organ in Groitzsch with mechanical action and slider wind chests. II/17.2007 a general overhaul was carried out by the Bochmann, Kohren-Sahlis company.

Text: Klaus Gernhardt

Layout

main organ (Cf´´)
1 drone 16'
2 Principal 8´
3 hollow flutes 8'
4 octave 4'
5 Gemshorn 4´
6 octave 2'
7th fifth 1 1/3'
8 Mixture 3-fold

Oberwerk (Cf´´´)
9 Gedackt 8´
10 Principal 4´
11 Waldflöte 2´
12 Schwiegel 1´
13 Sesquialter 2fach

Pedal (Cd´)
14 Violon 16´
15 sub-bass 16'
16 Principal Bass 8'
17 Choral Flute 4´

manual coupling
pedal coupler