Products pipe organs Headquarters Sarre-Union | Website www.orgues-koenig.com Founded 1945 | |
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Key people Yves Kœnig (President)
Huguette Kœnig (General Manager) Services building, restoring and maintenance | ||
Kœnig pipe organ builders, as known as manufacture d'orgues Kœnig, is a French firm that designs, builds and restores pipe organs. This organ building family owned manufacture is based in Sarre-Union, Alsace, since 1945.
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Achievements
Kœnig is specifically renowned for being the first contemporary organ builder to have performed in 1967 the recreation of a pipe organ, complying with the precepts found in 1778 book L'Art du facteur d'orgues by Dom Bédos. This masterpiece can been seen in Saint-Georges' Church of Bouquenom in Sarre-Union.
The workshop regularly contributes to the restoration of historical listed organs.
History
Jean-Georges Kœnig, born on May 16, 1920 in Strasbourg and deceased on November 26, 1992, bought the business to the widow of the organ builder Henry Vondrasek, in order to revive the factory that had been created in 1930.
Yves Kœnig, born on May 16, 1950, began working with his father in the 1970s and fully took over the business in 1982.
He is assisted since 2008 by Julien Marchal, born on Octobre 29, 1990 who he gradually prepares to his succession.