Orgelbau Mebold is a company building pipe organs in Siegen, Germany. It was founded in 1967 by Hans Peter Mebold (27 April 1942 – 21 July 2001), and has been run since 2018 by his son Mathias Mebold (born 1978). The company builds new organs, restores historic instruments, and specializes in portable small instruments (Truhenorgel).
Founding Hans Peter Mebold was born in Weidenau. He learned organ building with Hans Dentler, and worked in the workshop of , with , Günter Hardt, at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum and with . He founded the company Orgelbau Mebold in Frauenberg near Marburg in 1976. In 1979, they moved to Siegen, to the village Breitenbach. Hans Peter Mebold died in 2001.
Continuation After Mebold's death, Johannes Tobias Späth took over, together with Marianne Mebold, the founder's widow. From 1982, he was responsible for the workshop.
, the owner is Mathias Mebold, a son of Hans Peter Mebold, born in 1978.
Organs and concerts The company builds new organs, mostly for use in parish churches, but also in parish halls and hospitals. A typical layout combines a Great division () in Baroque style with a Swell division () with timbres of the Romantic period, which makes it possible to play a wide range of organ repertory. The company restores historic instruments. It has specialized in building small organs called Truhenorgel, which serve for accompanying choirs in church and for rehearsal.
Mebold organs have attracted notable organists to play concerts. Dan Zerfaß, organist of the Worms Cathedral, played the first concert at the organ in St. Martin, Idstein, in 2006, followed by concerts of Kalevi Kiviniemi, and the duo Giora Feidman and Matthias Eisenberg, among others. Anton Guggemos, the organist of the Wieskirche, played in St. Bardo in Petterweil, part of Karben.
Works Among the organ builders' new instruments are: Year Location Church / facility Image Manuals Stops Notes 1970 Hasselbach II 20 House organ, now in Essen 1982 Fronhausen Heilig Kreuz II 8 1986 Siegen Catholic-Apostolic Church III/P 14 1987 Burgsolms St. Elisabeth II/P 16 1988 Wilnsdorf Protestant Church Wilnsdorf II/P 21 1989 Ihmert Protestant Church Ihmert II/P 17 1991 Dalheim (Wetzlar) Parish Centre II/P 18 1994 Mainz-Hechtsheim Protestant Parish Centre II/P 16 2002 Welschen Ennest St. Johannes Baptist II/P 26 2005/06 Idstein St. Martin II/P 33 2007 Lichenroth Protestant Church I 10+1 2010 Hahnstätten St. Nikolaus I 13 New in 1747 case 2010 Petterweil St. Bardo II 15
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Fronhausen (Lahn), Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche organindex.de Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Bardo organindex.de Kath. Kirche St. Elisabeth organindex.de Wetzlar/Dalheim, Evangelisches Gemeindezentrum organindex.de Röm.-kath. Pfarrkirche zum hl. Joseph organindex.de Die Mebold-Orgel (Krypta) St. Michael, Siegen Die Truhenorgel Nikolaikirche, Siegen