Description

In the following decades, the organ was repeatedly upgraded, improved and repaired, and in 1888 Barnim Grüneberg carried out a general rebuilding of the instrument. Since then it has had 44 registers. In 1941, another reconstruction of the instrument was undertaken, this time with the aim of restoring the baroque disposition of the instrument according to Friedrich Breyer's original plans. The work was carried out by the Grüneberg company from Szczecin under the direction of Rudolf von Beckerath from Hamburg. The organ prospectus also underwent changes - as a result of subsequent unsuccessful restoration work, the overall appearance of the instrument was altered to the detriment. As a result of the war, the organ mechanism was devastated and most of the remaining pipes were unusable. As a result, only 10 % of the instrument could be put into service in the post-war years. It was not until 1962, after the war damage had been repaired, that the organ was repaired thanks to the initiative of the parish in Kamień Pomorski and the Henryk Wieniawski Society in Szczecin. The work on the restoration of the instrument was entrusted to the organ-builder from Wałcz, Kurt Berendt, and two years later it was taken over by Zygmunt Kamiński from Warsaw. In 1968, the conservation of the organ's outer case began, and from 1997 work began on reconstructing the instrument and achieving a sound close to the Baroque original from 1672.