Organ no. 10 | Austrian Hospice of the Holy Family- Jerusalem
The liturgical organ of the Austrian Hospice was constructed in 1910 by the organ-builder Rieger from Jagerndorf (now Krnov) in the Czech Republic (former Czechoslovakia), opus number 1706. It is placed on the gallery of the hospice’s chapel, with enough space for a small choir to gather around the organist. The dark oak case is in the form of a triptych with three rectangular openings in the lower part and three arches in the upper part. The central arch is dominated by a capital bearing a cross, surrounded by a rectangle. On each side there is a statue of an angel playing a trumpet, one with its wings open above its head and the other with its wings folded on its back.
This organ was originally supplied with foot-pumped bellows, since there was no electricity supply inside the Old City at that time, but in 1999 extensive repairs were made by Rieger himself, including an electric wind motor.