Franz Joseph Steinböck

Franz Joseph Steinböck (* 1732 in Vienna ; † 1782 there ) was an Austrian master stonemason and sculptor of the Baroque era . In 1768 and 1776 he became head of the Viennese construction works .

Life

Franz Joseph was born into an important Eggenburg stonemason family. The father Gabriel Steinböck had learned the craft there, by marrying Catharina Köchlin, widow of the Viennese stonemason Philipp Köchl, he took over his stonemason and became the master of the main Viennese hut. The sons Franz Joseph Steinböck and Stefan Gabriel carried on the stonemason tradition.

Franz Joseph learned the trade from his father Gabriel Steinböck, who acquitted him on May 3, 1750 in front of an open drawer as a journeyman and brother of the Vienna stonemasonry. In the guild book he himself was entered as a master for the first time on August 2, 1762, when the apprentice Michael Vogl was acquitted.

In the town hall, the Viennese masters of bricklaying and stonemasonry elected him headmaster in 1768 and 1776.

Delivery from the imperial quarry on Leithaberg

On March 16, 1756, Elisabeth Gehmacherin, wife of the Kaisersteinbruch master stonemason, Johann Gehmacher, died . She came from the Viennese master builder family Kazisberger, he had learned the trade in the Viennese building works. Their inventory documented the delivery of stonemasonry to Vienna to master stonemasons Gabriel Steinböck and son Franz Joseph Steinböck, to Franz Wasserburger and Georg Andreas Högl , a nephew of court stonemason Elias Hügel .

St. Thekla Church in Vienna

Thekla Church in the 4th district

In 1752 the Austrian Piarists bought a piece of land on today's Wiedner Hauptstrasse , on which they wanted to build a college. The previous building was soon demolished and the construction of the monastery and the church began. The architect Mathias Gerl provided the plans for the complex . The stone carvings were carried out by the Viennese masters Franz Joseph Steinböck and Matthias Winkler . The construction was completed around 1756 and the church was consecrated on September 26 of the same year.

literature

• Vienna City and State Archives : Steinmetzakten .
• 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.
• 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 . Issue 4, 1995.
• Helmuth Furch : Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch . 2 volumes. Museum and cultural association, Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .