Johann Caspar Högl
Johann Caspar Högl (* 1701 , † 26. January 1776 in Eggenburg , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian master stonemason and sculptor of the Baroque , Mayor of Eggenburg.
His father's surname, Hügel , was rewritten in all documents by Caspar in Högl .
Life
Johann Caspar was the son of the Eggenburg master stonemason, Johann Gallus Hügel , who immigrated from Gemünden am Main in Franconia , and Anna Maria N. The father had leased a quarry near Eggenburg, the Högl-Bruch , they lived in their own house, a house on the long line .
The mother died in October 1708, he and his younger siblings had to be cared for, so the father married Catharina Wödl, daughter of the Eggenburg butcher, in January 1709. After a few years the children of three different mothers were living in the house. At the age of 13 he had a stepbrother, Georg Andreas Högl , who later also learned the stonemasonry and married in Vienna. The master Johann Gallus took over the task of teacher for son Caspar. The father died on September 14, 1719, the apprenticeship was not yet completed.
Brother Joachim became a monk
His biological brother Joachim (* 1696) became a monk in the Kartause Gaming , which had cost a lot of money, when he opened his will there was nothing left to inherit. The Eggenburg City Archives have two letters from the Carthusian monastery to Brother Caspar. On November 2, 1719, he wrote .. a planned meeting to Heyligen Weyhung did not take place, because I am not in Krems , but to Vienna and from there to Tulln 'm coming .. inheritance .. what I want Röden orally only with you . . Remain your dead brother bit into dead . Brother Joachim Högl.
The master of the quarter drawer appointed Andreas Steinböck as the new teacher , who acquitted him on March 29, 1721 as journeyman and new brother of the brotherhood.
If Caspar had hoped to take over his father's trade one day, the guild laws spoke against it. The widow, his stepmother, who professionally carried out the current job at Herzogenburg Abbey , with her three children, aged 5 to 9, had to remarry in the trade. She chose Mathias Franz Strickner, stonemason and son from the best Eggenburg family, on January 28, 1721 the wedding was held. The young Strickner took over the Hügelsche Steinmetzhütte.
In the imperial quarry
Högl was a trained stonemason, but his father's craft came to the knitter. After Kaisersteinbruch, Caspar went to his master uncle , the court stonemason Elias Huegel , the only close relative he still had. On May 24, 1721, he is documented in the local church as a godfather. The wife of Master Maria Elisabetha Hügelin could not have children at the age of 60, so Master Elias wanted to bind him as a son?
There were two possibilities for Caspar to find a stonemason's daughter, or widow, in Eggenburg, or to get married elsewhere, in Vienna or Kaisersteinbruch. Then the important Eggenburg master Mathias Strickner, quarry tenant, died, his house stood on the main square with the stonemason's mark above the gate. The widow Maria Rosina Stricknerin chose him, Johann Caspar Högl, to marry her on June 11, 1724. Best man was Andreas Steinböck, acting judge in Eggenburg. The young Högl took over the Stricknersche Steinmetzhütte.
Teacher
Caspar hired numerous stonemason boys , they were all acquitted in front of the open ark to become journeymen and new brothers of the Eggenburg brotherhood . For example: on January 16, 1728 he acquitted the apprentice Johannes Strickner, who became his stepson through his marriage, as a journeyman. His youngest stepson Johann Michael Strickner also learned from him, acquittal in 1739, married the widow of the deceased judge in the imperial quarry and was elected judge himself years later.
family
With Maria Rosalia he had five children, three of whom died at a young age. She was his only wife and outlived Caspar by three years. She died on November 22, 1779.
Trinity column in Zwettl
In Zwettl-Niederösterreich on August 9, 1726 a Trinity Column was discussed: the city council met in the town hall on the main square - the assembly decided unanimously and vowed to erect such a building in Zwettl.
The princely quarter town of Eggenburg with its quarries and the master stonemasons resident there was the center of stonemasonry in Lower Austria. The Zwettlers chose the young stonemason and sculptor Johann Caspar Högl. His designs met with the approval of the client, and as early as September 1726, Richter and Rat von Zwettl signed a contract with Högl.
In it, the master stonemason undertook to “manufacture a column from Kühnringer Stain , with the portrait of the holiest trinity, at least 6 1/2 Clafter high.” In addition, it was stipulated that a statue of the Immaculate and sculptures of St. Sebastian , Rochus and Rosalia , but those of St. Martyrs Florian , John of Nepomuk and Donatus should be attached. Everything with the appropriate pedestals , vaults and ornamental wheels, as well as those little dogs, a heart or a star in hand for the lamp. Everything from clean and well-proportioned sculptor work ... ”.
Caspar Högl received the last payment after completion on September 5, 1727, the Trinity Column cost a total of 1721 guilders and 14 kreuzers.
Dominican Church in Znojmo, main portal
The Reformation of the 16th century found wide acceptance in Znojmo . The reaction to this was that, in the Counter-Reformation, the branches of the Jesuits and Capuchins were added to the older Roman Catholic religious houses, and they immediately started building activity. This also had an effect on the older monasteries, who redesigned and redesigned their buildings with high-ranking artists.
The Dominican Church of the Holy Cross was rebuilt from 1653 to 1677 and received a new two-tower facade after 1730. At least the main portal was designed by Johann Caspar Högl.
Reinprechtspölla parish church
The parish church of St. Pankraz zu Reinprechtspölla , belonging to the Klosterneuburg monastery , was enlarged from 1735 to 1737. The master craftsmen Gabriel Steinböck and Caspar Högl provided stone carvings .
Altenburg Abbey
Together with his Eggenburg co-master Franz Leopold Fahrmacher, who carried out the majority of the stone deliveries and stone carving, Master Caspar supplied - according to the invoice from 1742 - particularly fine material for the sculptor von Horn, and more for Jakob Christoph Schletterer .
In 1757 Caspar Högl moved to the house at Hauptplatz No. 23, which he also rebuilt. A baroque open staircase inside is his work. His appreciation was also shown in the office of Mayor of Eggenburg, which he held in 1760/61 and 1765/66.
Pilgrimage church to Mühlfraun
For the pilgrimage church in Mühlfraun , master Högl made stone carvings for 312 guilders and 12 kreuzers in 1773.
literature
- City archive Eggenburg: Aufding and Freysagebuch the Eggenburg stonemasons' guild.
- Stadtarchiv Zwettl: Kart. 21, contract for the erection of the Heyl. Dreyfaltig Kheit pillars in the sovereign place of Zwethl. 1726.
- Gaspar Burghard: The white stone from Eggenburg, the Zogelsdorfer sand-lime stone and its masters. Reprint from The Waldviertel. Volume 4. 44th year, 1995.
- Helmuth Furch : In: Messages of the Museum and Culture Association Kaisersteinbruch. ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
- Master Johann Gallus Hügel. No. 22, 1992.
- The Hügel family from Gemünden am Main. No. 42, 1996.
- Entry Högl family. In: Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien. Volume 3, 1994.
- Helmuth Furch: Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch. 2 volumes. Museum and Culture Association, Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004, ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Högl, Johann Caspar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Austrian master stonemason and sculptor, Mayor of Eggenburg, Lower Austria |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1701 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1776 |
| Place of death | Eggenburg |