Andreas Steinböck
Andreas Steinböck (* around 1667 in Eggenburg , Lower Austria ;. Beerd 24. October 1750 ) was an Austrian master stonemason and sculptor of the Baroque .
Life
Andreas was born into a stonemason family, his father Thomas Steinböck (* 1625) was a master stonemason in Eggenburg , his mother Catharina and the older brothers Wolfgang and Veith , the sisters Martha, Barbara and Christina.
On January 30, 1684, master stonemason Veith Steinböck took on his brother Andreas as an apprentice , the acquittal in front of an open drawer took place on January 30, 1689. 1699 the journeyman Andreas is documented as Eggenburg master.
He married Maria Anna Strickner on February 14, 1694 in Eggenburg (born August 24, 1669 Eggenburg, died December 5, 1740 ibid), from this marriage there were five sons and four daughters. The best-known son was Gabriel Steinböck , born in Eggenburg in 1705, whom he trained himself and acquitted as journeyman and brother in 1723 . Gabriel also became a master stonemason, in Vienna the imperial court stonemason master.
On imperial orders , Andreas Steinböck became a member of the external council of the sovereign city in 1710 and of the internal council in 1712. He performed important functions in the life of the city, from 1722 to 1724 the office of city judge and from 1725 to 1737 he was mayor of his hometown.
Trinity column Eggenburg
By completely closing the city gates it was possible to keep the plague , which raged far and wide in 1713, away from the city. The city fathers promised the establishment of a the Trinity consecrated Plague . On August 17, 1713, the city concluded a contract with the master stonemasons of Eggenburg, according to which they had to erect a column crowned by the Trinity for 365 fl , while the statues of St. Rochus, Sebastian and the patron saint, St. Stephans, should be donated by other city benefactors. On September 19, 1715 the solemn inauguration of the column took place, in whose elaboration the probably most important stonemason from Eggenburg, Andreas Steinböck, played the major part.
These years were marked by the successful end of the Second Great Turkish War and the resurgence and expansion of Vienna into the splendid center of the Holy Roman Empire .
Schwarzenberg Garden Palace
In 1697, the Imperial Supreme Court Marshal Heinrich Franz Graf von Mansfeld, Prince of Fondi, began making basic purchases alongside his military rival, Prince Eugene of Savoy. He then commissioned Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt to build a castle-like summer palace . The building of the palace was largely completed by his death in 1715. The widow sold the still unfinished system to the Imperial and Royal Court Marshal Prince Adam Franz Carl von Schwarzenberg the next year .
The large stone vases are made to designs by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach . The garden turns into a park that stretches along the Belvedere Park . On September 1, 1721 concluded Baubevollmächtigte of the prince, the maker Andreas Meyer a contract with the Eggenburger stonemason Andreas Steinbock about the making of a stone balustrade at the Cascade in the garden.
Another major construction site was in the immediate vicinity.
Karlskirche
In redemption of one of Emperor Charles VI. During the plague epidemic on October 22, 1713 at St. Stephen's , the foundation stone for an imperial church was laid on February 4, 1716 on a desolate hill on the right bank of the hardly regulated Vienna River . Construction began on December 4, 1715 by the architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach , with the builder Anton Erhard Martinelli .
The masters Andreas Steinböck and Franz Strickner designed the two hollow columns from the Eggenburg stone . The built-in spiral staircase and the supporting pedestal were chiseled by the Kaisersteinbruch masters Johann Georg Haresleben and Elias Hügel from the hard Kaiserstein .
Maria Immakulata column in Dürnholz
The Maria Immaculata column with four statues of saints stands on the market square of Dürnholz in South Moravia . It is popularly known as the Holy Column and was erected in 1718 by the stonemason Andreas Steinböck from Eggenburg in thanks for being saved from the plague .
Leopoldstadt barracks
Apart from the small houses of the Vienna City Guard on and on the bastions and city walls , the number of which were well over 300, Vienna had no barracks until 1721 . The necessity arose to move troops to Vienna and near the city. The accommodation and food for these troops put a great strain on the population. It was therefore welcomed with joy when the high commissioner of the district above the Vienna Woods, Wolf Ehrenreich, Count von Auersperg, proposed to the state parliament in 1716 to establish this Archduchy of Austria under Enns Casarnes at certain convenient locations .
Excerpts from some master builder's instructions from July 17, 1721 to which Thor and Stall-Doeren is to be taken with a hard stone, the staircase to which stairs should be made of hard wood, as it is to get the cheapest price . The Imperial Fortifications - architect Donato Felice d'Allio received a fee for his plans on September 19 1721st The Schottenkloster supplied the Weinhauser stone, the qualified stonemason jobs were given, as so often in Vienna, to Eggenburg with the sculpting stone , and to the imperial quarry on Leithaberg with the hard stone, to the masters Simon Sasslaber and Andreas Steinböck.
Holy Trinity Column Nikolsburg
The lower town square of Nikolsburg is dominated by the Trinity column , also known as the plague column . In 1723 , Prince Walter Xaver von Dietrichstein commissioned the master stonemasons Andreas Steinböck von Eggenburg and Philipp Nader von Nikolsburg to carry out the work based on an artistic design by the court painter Joseph Anton Prenner, the sculptor Ignaz Lengelacher designed the figurine decorations, and it is recognized as one of the most beautiful monuments in Moravia .
Weikendorfer Church
In 1727 stone carvings by master Andreas Steinböck at the Weikendorfer church and the parish castle are documented. In the parish chronicle it is noted that master builder Jakob Prandtauer from St. Pölten stayed here because of problems with the vaulting of the church and was consulted.
death
Master Andreas died in December 1750 and was buried in front of the high altar of the Franciscan church at that time. This was abolished in 1787 by Emperor Joseph II and sold for factory purposes.
literature
- Vienna City and State Archives : Steinmetzakten .
- Johann Edler von Managetta-Lerchenau : The barracks in Leopoldstadt . In: Monthly newspaper of the Alterthumsverein zu Wien . No. 10, 1913, pp. 13ff.
- Alois Kieslinger : Stone handicrafts in Eggenburg and Zogelsdorf , In: Our homeland, monthly of the Association for Regional Studies and Homeland Protection of Lower Austria and Vienna, No. 5-7, 1935.
- Bruno Grimschitz : Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt , S 34, 1959.
- Otto E. Plettenbacher: History of the stonecutters of Vienna in the 17th century. An economic and cultural historical as well as sociological investigation. Price list 1688, set order of the stone carvings . Dissertation, University of Vienna 1960.
- Hans Brandstetter: Eggenburg, History and Culture , 1986.
- Burghard Gaspar: The "White Stone of Eggenburg". The Zogelsdorf sand-lime brick and its masters . In: The Waldviertel . 44, 1995, No. 4, ISSN 0259-8957 , pp. 331-367.
- Helmuth Furch : Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch . 2 volumes. Museum and cultural association, Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .
- Herbert Haupt: The handicrafts freed from court and court in baroque Vienna 1620–1770 . Research on Viennese urban history, 2007. ISBN 978-3-7065-4342-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eggenburg death register 1722-1770. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Traubuch Eggenburg 1678-1724. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ^ Eggenburg baptismal register 1654-1677. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Eggenburg death register 1722-1770. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Group of statues of the Holy Trinity (plague column) accessed on November 14, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steinböck, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian master stonemason and baroque sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1667 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eggenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | buried October 24, 1750 |
| Place of death | Eggenburg |