Ambrose Ferrethi

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Ambrosius Ferrethi (born March 3, 1628 in Bissone , Ticino , Switzerland ; † February 20, 1696 in Kaisersteinbruch , Hungary, today Burgenland) was the imperial court master stonemason of the Baroque era . In some scriptures it is also referred to as Ferretti or Vereti .

Life

During his journeyman journey , Ambrosius Ferrethi came to the imperial quarry near Vienna to perfect his knowledge. In a list of houses from 1653 we find the journeyman Ambrosius in the house of the recently deceased court artist Pietro Maino Maderno , also former Mr. Richter, as a resident.

Marriage in Kaisersteinbruch

Agatha Bregnin, daughter of master stonemason Hieronymus Bregno and wife Margaretha chose him on May 28, 1656 to be her husband. Witnesses were Andre de Luca and Domenicus Petruzzy , both stonemasons and jurors here. Here he was “like at home”, because the artists of the Kaisersteinbruch Brotherhood were all related to one another. They acquired the property, quarry, houses, etc. from the heirs of their deceased uncle, the court sculptor Pietro Maino Madernos . Agatha died in January 1662, Master Ambrosius married Maria N., not in Kaisersteinbruch, so no further data. Daughter Maria Elisabetha was born, and Anastasia the following year.

Leopoldine wing of the Hofburg - Hofsteinmetzmeister

The monumental commission for stonemasonry made of hard stone for the Leopoldine wing in the Vienna Hofburg , together with Camillo Rezi, his “life assignment” from 1660 to 1680, brought Ambrosius Ferrethi the title of master mason . Although the work was pushed ahead with great haste, delays occurred due to a lack of materials. The construction clerk Lucas Ehrlinger argued on May 5, 1665 such a prevention .. the warfare these two years ago, the farmers lost their horses. Therefore there are no wagoners available . So the large cornice slabs cannot be led to the Faciata and the roofing cannot be started ... Vienna was only roughly informed about the exact location of the quarry, in the statement one reads: the Italian masters in the imperial quarry at Mannersdorf . ..

The work from the soft stone was carried out by the Viennese court stone mason Urban Illmayr . This also included the preparation of various old stones and the marble paving for the chapel.

Salva Guardia privilege for Kaisersteinbruch

→ Salva Guardia-Privilegium for Kaisersteinbruch # Kaiser and King Leopold I.

Emperor Leopold I gave in 1660 the renewed and privilege of exemption from military billeting, which at the doors of their houses the Imperial sign double eagle to install and are a chapel to Corpus Christi - Procession build. As a thank you to the masters Jacobus Maderno, Ambrosius Ferrethi, Ambrosius Regondi , Domenicus Petruzzy and Giorgio Regondi for services rendered to himself.

  • Capuchin crypt , stone floor made of Kaiserstein

  • Hofburg , Leopoldine wing

  • Salva Guardia privilege

  • Kaisersteinbruch, cemetery portal

  • Detail of the grand staircase in the Liechtenstein City Palace

  • Liechtenstein Garden Palace

Judicial office

In the abbot's protocols it can be read, ... in 1679 the plague also pretty much tore down in Steinbruch ..., on June 13, 1680 Bannthaiding was held and Master Ambrosius Ferrethi was made judge. From the scriptures it can be deduced that Ferrethi successfully led the imperial quarry through the difficult times. In 1689, Emperor Leopold I granted and renewed the Kaisersteinbruch stonemason trade the privilege of having its own quarter drawer.

Ferrethi's baroque cemetery portal in front of the Kaisersteinbruch Church has been preserved as a sight to our days.

The masters of the Kaisersteinbruch stonemasonry

Ferrethi served as judge from 1680 to 1696, his co-masters in the craft of stonemasons and masons in Kaisersteinbruch were Antonius Pery , Domenicus Petruzzy , Reichardt Fux , Ambrosius Hutter, Giovanni Battista Passerini , Andreas Sämmer, Giovanni Pietro della Torre , Martin Trumler .

Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption of Mary

The Mariahilfer image of the Virgin Mary was first publicly venerated in a wooden chapel, then replaced by a brick building. During the second Turkish siege , the picture was saved from the destroyed chapel. Then a small emergency church was built and the planning for a large church began . The foundation work was carried out in March 1686, and on August 14, 1689 construction had progressed so far that the miraculous image could be retrieved. In the sources, Sebastiano Carlone and Ambrosius Ferrethi are named as construction managers. A choir tower was built a few years later , but the increase in pilgrimages required a larger structure.

Construction company with his sons-in-law

He had no sons, but from the orders we learn that he did a lot of work with his sons-in-law Martin Trumler and Giovanni Battista Passerini . Felix Freywiller in 1672 , Giovanni Pietro della Torre in 1674 and Elias Hügel in 1694 are mentioned among his apprentices .

death

Ambrosius died on February 20, 1696 at the age of 69, leaving behind a considerable fortune. Widow Catharina, now the master craftsman, married the Eggenburg stonemason journeyman Johann Georg Haresleben in 1696 . Ferrethi's epitaph was in the Kaisersteinbrucher church and is currently private property. The epitaph reads:

ALHIER REST THE BODIES / OF THE HONORED AND HONORED MR AMBROSI FERRETI AT THE AGE OF 69. ADMINISTRATED THE JUDGES 'OFFICE FOR 17 YEARS, FEB 20. SLEEP IN GOD BLESSED / HIS FIRST HOUSEWIFE AGATHA, 24 YEARS OLD, HAS 28 JAN. 1662 THE WORLD BLESSED / THE OTHER MARY 40 YEARS OLD HAS ON MARY LICHTMES 2 FEB. 1674 YOUR LIGHT OF LIFE GOD OFFERED TO THE ALMIGHTY Sincere / DISER PROBABLY ONE AND ALL OF US AN ETERNAL LIGHT SHINE GODLY. AMEN.
THE ABANDONED CHILDREN LAY THIS STONE INTO A MEMORIAL.

The exit shaft - inventory gives an idea of the wealth of some former Kaiserstein Brucher champion. Here is just a small selection:

Various types of cash in considerable amounts, thalers , double thalers , ducats , tenfold, fivefold, double ducats , whole, half and quarter silver crowns, silver dishes, silver belts, silver spoons and jewelery. He bequeathed his wife a house in Kaisersteinbruch with a garden and barn and two vineyards in Sommerein and Breitenbrunn, 2,400 guilders, a barrel of wine.
He certified 100 florins for the Heiligenkreuz monastery , further spiritual foundations were given to the Capuchins (monastery closed in 1784) and the Augustinians (monastery closed in 1788) in Bruck an der Leitha , and in Frauenkirchen the Belt Brotherhood of St. Francis . He donated the Servites in Loretto and the church of Mariazell .

A pious man

Father Clemens Eder protocolliert .. is pious, with the last consolations in God, after he had lived 68 years and 3 months, not so much for himself, as God and his neighbor, as great benefactor of our parish church, whose soul the enjoy eternal peace .

His name is carved on the scroll of the Kaisersteinbruch sundial pillar by the sculptor Alexandru Ciutureanu .

Works

Foundation of Holy Masses for the Ferrethi family

His daughter Anastasia, widowed Passerin , remarried Sasslaberin donated "for eternity".

Archival material

Epitaph, once in the church floor, now privately owned

literature

  • Otto E. Plettenbacher: History of the stonecutters of Vienna in the 17th century. An economic and cultural historical as well as sociological investigation . Dissertation, University of Vienna 1960.
  • Robert Wögerer: Wilfleinsdorf history of the place and the church . 1996.
  • Helmuth Furch : In: Messages of the Museum and Culture Association Kaisersteinbruch . ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
The master widow . No. 3, 1990, p. 5.
Hans Georg Haresleben, Heiligenkreuz subject and master stonemason in quarry . No. 36, 1995, pp. 10-40.
Master Ambrosius Ferrethi, Heiligenkreuz subject and judge in the quarry . No. 38, 1995, pp. 12-48.
  • Michael Krapf (ed.): Triumph of the imagination, baroque models from Hildebrandt to Mollinarolo. Pilgrimage church Mariahilf . Exhibition catalog Österreichische Galerie Belvedere , Vienna 1998, p. 240.
  • Helmuth Furch: Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch . 2 volumes. Museum and cultural association, Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .
  • Helmuth Furch: Brotherhood of the Kaisersteinbrucher stonemasons, enumeration 1650–1730 . 2007. ISBN 978-3-9504555-4-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Ferrethi, Ambrose
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Austrian imperial stonemason master of the baroque era, judge in Kaisersteinbruch
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1628
PLACE OF BIRTH Bissone , Ticino , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1696
Place of death Kaisersteinbruch