Monastery Grauhof

Name variations: Kloster Grauhof; Klosterkirche Grauhof; Stiftskirche St. Georg; Stiftskirche St. Georg zu Grauhof Former Augustinian monastery (Kloster Grauhof) situated in the isolated farmstead Grauhof outside the City of Goslar (Germany), with Roman-Catholic monastery church (Stiftskirche St. Georg) in Baroque style from 1711. The monastery church has a famous historic 32' baroque organ (III/P/42), built in 1734-1737 by Christoph Treutmann; modified in 1932 and again in 1956/57 by Furtwängler & Hammer (Hannover), it was restored in 1989-1992 by Gebr. Hillebrand (Altwarmbüchen); since then tuned to the 'Bach-Kellner' temperament, pitch a'= 456.2 Hz. In 2002 reconstruction of the historic keyboard carillon; in 2009 cleaning and re-voicing of the organ by Gebr. Hillebrand.