Gabriel Steinböck

Stonemason's mark Gabriel Matthias Steinböck

Gabriel Steinböck (also Gabriel Matthias ; * 1705 in Eggenburg , Lower Austria , † 1764 in Vienna ) was an Austrian master stonemason and sculptor of the Baroque . He became the imperial master stonemason and head of the Viennese building works .

Life

Gabriel was born into a stonemason family, the father Andreas Steinböck was a master stonemason in Eggenburg, the mother Maria Anna Steinbauerin, a total of five brothers and four sisters. The father trained Gabriel himself to be a stonemason and acquitted him on April 15, 1725 as a journeyman and brother of the Eggenburg brotherhood. He married Catharina Köchlin, the widow of the Viennese master stonemason Philipp Köchl, who had died in 1729. First referred to as master stonemason in 1732. Through this marriage he took over the Köchls stonemasonry, and the way was clear to become master of the main Viennese hut.

Two of her sons continued the stonemasonry, the masters Franz Joseph Steinböck (* 1732) and Stefan Gabriel (* 1737).

Remodeling work in the Esterházy Palace

In a contract dated May 15, 1745, the Esterházy administrator Michael von Röhrig entrusted the bourgeois master stonemason Gabriel Matthias Steinböck with the production of the new portal for the palace .

He also commissioned the Viennese masters Johann Sebastian Knox, Franz Wasserburger and Gabriel Steinböck to build a new staircase. For all this, large deliveries of hard Kaisersteinbrucher stone were required, which are documented in the subsequent inventory .

Deliveries from the Imperial Quarry

After the death of the Kaisersteinbruch master stonemason Maximilian Koch on February 11, 1750, a stately inventory was made, in which stone deliveries to the Viennese masters Franz Wasserburger and Gabriel Steinböck were documented.

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

Renovation work in Schönbrunn Palace

Maria Theresa arranged for renovation work in Schönbrunn Palace . The secret pay office books of the year 1753 document .. Issues on paid kk Hofbauamts-debts from Anno 1750, 1751 up to the last December 1752 u. a. for the four master stonemasons: Matthias Winkler , Ferdinand Mödlhammer, Gabriel Steinböck and Johann Baptist Regondi . Regondi, from the imperial quarry, supplied u. a. Stair treads made of hard Kaiserstein for new staircases.

Marble tomb for Prince Eugene of Savoy

Prinz Eugen chapel

Maria Theresia Anna Felicitas Duchess of Savoy-Carignan , b. Princess Liechtenstein , left for their deceased in 1736 uncles Prince Eugene of Savoy in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral in 1752, a marble - Tomb build. Performing artist Joseph Wurschbauer as a sculptor and goldsmith , as a stonemason Gabriel Steinböck.

After the death of master Matthias Winkler, Gabriel Steinböck succeeded him as the imperial court stonemason in 1753.

Capuchin Crypt

Gabriel Steinböck received payments from the imperial chamber pay office a. a. for the supply of red marble slabs to the coffin of the Countess Fuchs . At Maria Theresa's express request , the countess was the only non- Habsburg woman to be buried in the Capuchin crypt.

At the City Hall in Vienna, the masters elected him head of the Viennese building works in 1758.

literature

• Vienna City and State Archives : Steinmetzakten .
• Hofkammerarchiv: Secret Pay Office Books 1753/54 .
• Alois Kieslinger : Stone craft in Eggenburg and Zogelsdorf , In: Our home. Monthly newspaper of the Association for Regional Studies and Homeland Security of Lower Austria and Vienna . No. 5-7, 1935.
• 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 . Issue 4, 1995.
• Richard Perger: The Esterházy Palace on Wallnerstrasse in Vienna . Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7005-4645-9 , p. 34ff.
• 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 the history of Vienna . 2007. ISBN 978-3-7065-4342-2 .