Toggenburg association Windbläss honored

Windbläss is concerned with maintaining and expanding the culture of house organs, which is deeply rooted in Toggenburg and dates back to the 18th century. The organs built by local craftsmen stood in the ridge chambers of wealthy farmhouses and were an expression of self-confident religious rebelliousness. They served as a musical accompaniment to private church services, which took place in the farmhouses independently of the regional church.

The Windbläss association is a contact point for house organ owners and promotes knowledge about this tradition. Above all, however, it organizes concerts that bring together tradition and the avant-garde. Windbläss blows mainly from the Nesslauer Bühl, where a restored Webstuben organ invites you to the events, in combination with a wide variety of instruments and singing.