City Church of Bremgarten - Organ History

Organ History

The church had a total of seven organs in their history. The first organ purchased in 1458 from the Church of the Assumption Parish Church in Baden . 120 years later (1578) Peter renewed Rietsch from Basel, the church organ. From 1612 to 1616 built Thomas Schott from Urach a new organ. He later became a citizen of Bremgarten and had to give in return to the tip of the organ and pay a cup worth 20 crowns. He became a very wealthy and honored citizens, who also built churches for the surrounding organs, such as the great organ in the monastery church Muri . Franz Joseph Trimbach of Otter built in 1788 and in 1789 an organ with the organ pipes from jewelry Joachim Waltenspühl. At the same time a new singer gallery was built. 1898, the organ of otters was a neo-Baroque organ by Friedrich Goll succeeded in Lucerne. In 1916, Friedrich Goll organ was enlarged and the Prospectus and rebuilt in 1930 by the organ AG Willisau electrified and renovated. A new building of the organ Th Kuhn AG in Männedorf finally broke from the old organ in 1953. This Kuhn organ was destroyed during the church Brands 1984. The church was renovated in 1988 a new organ, the Metzler AG in Dietikon in the style of Otter organ.