Georg Andreas Högl

Stonemason's mark Georg Andreas Högl

Georg Andreas Högl (born November 21, 1714 in Eggenburg , Lower Austria , † 1780 in Vienna ) was an Austrian master stonemason and sculptor of the Baroque era , head of the Viennese building works .

The surname of his father Hügel was rewritten in all documents by Andreas in Högl .

Life

Georg Andreas was the son of the Eggenburg master stonemason Johann Gallus Hügel , who immigrated from Gemünden am Main in Franconia , and his third wife Catharina born. Wödl, ​​wealthy butcher's daughter there. The father had leased a quarry near Eggenburg, the Högl-Bruch , they lived in their own house, a house on the long line .

Andreas was born into a real family business. The stepbrothers Johann Georg and Johann Caspar worked or learned from their father, who then died on September 14, 1719. The mother continued the trade, as a master stonemason with legal authority - she signed a contract - she managed the order in the Herzogenburg Abbey , work on the large hall. According to the craft regulations, she had to remarry in the trade within a year. She chose Mathias Franz Strickner, stonemason and son from the best Eggenburg family, on January 28th, 1721 the wedding was held. The young Strickner took over the Hügelsche Steinmetzhütte.

The age difference to the stepbrothers was big, when he started his apprenticeship with his stepfather, Master Mathias Franz Strickner, they were long out of the house. His acquittal as journeyman and brother of the Eggenburg Brotherhood took place on January 17, 1732.

The stonemason center in the Eggenburg quarter shop also had no space for Gallus Högl's three sons .

Leopold Church

Michaelerkolleg, portal

Grand staircase there

Work in Roßau in Vienna

Journeyman Andreas worked for master Michael Waltner, who had his seat and voice in the Viennese building works. Its catchment area was the Roßau , a suburb of what was then Vienna. After Waltner's death he married the widow. He married Franziska Waltner on June 16, 1743 in the Schottenkirche in Vienna. The budding master stonemason was a good 28 years old, Franziska only 21.

Of the ten children they had together, two remained with the stonemasonry (Andreas and Philipp ). She died on August 19, 1764. In her will, she bequeathed four hundred florins each to her ten children of my own birth , or four thousand florins in total . She appointed my dear wife, Andre Högl, as a universal heir .

Master Andreas Högl was 50 years old. Several underage children made a marriage as soon as possible necessary. Elisabeth Stricknerin from Eggenburg became his second wife on January 28, 1766. The Högl and Strickner families were linked to one another several times. Elisabeth died on September 12, 1780.

Teacher

In the Viennese stonemason files ... Georg Andreas Högel, bourgeois master stonemason, who became master on December 30, 1743, correctly imposed his master's fee of 60 guilders . Some of his apprentices are documented in the guild book. He acquitted the apprentice Gottfried Kluger from Görlitz in Saxony as a journeyman on September 1, 1749 , his son Andreas Högl on May 16, 1762 and finally Franz Nachtigall on April 30, 1780.

Stone carvings

As early as 1743 he was recorded in the church bills of the Leopold Church in Leopoldstadt with repair work, and in 1768 in the parish chronicle with a cemetery work.

Master Andreas received the major stonemason work at Michaelerkolleg (baroque building complex near Michaelerkirche ) in 1756. The work was carried out with Eggenburg and hard Kaisersteinbrucher stone. Master Johann Gehmacher supplied Kaiserstein for all stairs, large pillars and gates. The Barnabites commissioned the sculptor Johann Joseph Resler in 1756 with the figural decoration of the stairs.

In the laudable Michaeli Collegium, concerning the Stiegen- Pfeiller , as: 4 Stiegen Pfeiller, every two floors high made of hard Kaißer Steinbröcher stone, each Pfeiller 31 Schuch high, however the cornice of Eggenburger Stein 3 Schuch 9 inches wide with 1 Schuch 9 inches thick together 814 Cubic, á 1  fl 30 kr .. 1,221 guilders

In the Vienna City Hall, master masons and stonemasons elected Georg Andreas Högl as head of the Viennese construction works for the years 1762 and 1766.

Stone delivery from St. Margarethen

On April 13, 1772, Fuhrmann Madl delivered 1 load of 36 pieces of rough stone from Franz Latzelberger, master stonemason in Margarethen to Mr. Högl, master stonemason in Vienna.

On December 19, 1779 he handed over to his son Philipp. At the craft meeting on January 11, 1780, three Högls were present. The father with his two sons.

The Högl family inherits the house at 8 Petersplatz

Maria Stricknerin from the family of the widow Elisabeth Höglin, formerly Strickner, in 1785 half of the house at Petersplatz 8 , identical to Milchgasse 1 and Tuchlauben 6, was inherited. Franz, Philipp, Michael, Elisabeth and Magdalena Högl lived here with Maria Klausberger, Theresia Marinelli and Katharina Schmierer. The house remained in the possession of these families for over 30 years. Before, in 1781, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived in this house . This is where The Abduction from the Seraglio was made and it was here that he met Constanze Weber .

literature

• Vienna City and State Archives : Steinmetzakten .
• City archive Eggenburg: Aufding and Freysagebuch the Eggenburg stonemasons' guild .
• Michaelerkirche archive: building files of the St. Michael College, stone mason invoices .
• Waldemar Posch, Father SDS: “Building history of the St. Michael College in Vienna” .
• 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 cultural association, Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv , Steinmetz files, letter with 4 delivery notes from April 13, 1772 .