Giorgio Regondi

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Giorgio Regondi (* 1616 in the Duchy of Milan ; † January 11, 1681 in Kaisersteinbruch , Hungary, today Burgenland) was Italian , imperial court stone mason and baroque sculptor . His brother was Ambrosius Regondi .

Life

Giorgio became a subject of the Spanish King Philip III. , a Habsburg , as the ruling Duke of Milan . In the imperial quarry on Leithaberg , Emperor Ferdinand II was his supreme lord, the immediate rule was represented by the Heiligenkreuz Abbey with Abbot Christoph Schäffer, and the administrator in the Königshof Palace acted as an inquisitor .

Master stonemason and sculptor Pietro Maino Maderno took on the boy Giorgio Regondi as an apprentice in 1629 , he was acquitted as a journeyman in 1634. Maderno had become Prince Liechtenstein's court stonemason , in Eisgrub Castle he designed decorative stone fountains for the gardens .

Journeyman Giorgio follows his teacher Pietro Maino Maderno

The journeyman Giorgio followed his master on to Butschowitz , Prince Maximilian Liechtenstein commissioned Maderno, in the arcade a monumental his castle Bacchus - well erect. He succeeded his master, who in 1638 became a stonemason for the Klosterneuburg church and had to build the north tower and a cross vault . In 1644, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm asked his imperial court sculptor Pietro Maino Maderno to build a chapel of grace in the Capuchin monastery and near Krems . The work in Klosterneuburg was interrupted and a court artist had to answer the court's call.

Son Johannes Franz studies at the University of Vienna

The eldest son Johannes Franciscus (born June 13, 1652) became a student at the University of Vienna in 1663 . In 1653 Abbot Michael Schnabel of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey was able to enforce all demands as an authority through a "noble" commission.

1653 125 residents in the quarry

125 residents were counted in the quarry and a list of houses was drawn up at the same time. In the house of the judge Ambrosius Regondi , his wife Angela, the judge's brother Giorgio with wife Maria, the judge's daughter Catharina.

Main guarantor of the Wiener Neustädter Handwerk

On June 16, 1656 , master mason Dominicus Baran from Froschdorf took on the apprentice Jacob Leitner from Our Dear Women Zell as a teacher at Wiener Neustädter Handwerk . Master Giorgio was the main guarantor. In 1657 he headed the Kaisersteinbruch craft as a quarter master.

Salva Guardia privilege for Kaisersteinbruch

→ Salva Guardia-Privilegium for Kaisersteinbruch # Kaiser and King Leopold I.

Emperor Leopold I gave in 1660 the renewed and privilege of exemption from military billeting, which at the doors of their houses the Imperial sign double eagle to install and are a chapel to Corpus Christi - Procession build. As a thank you to the masters Jacobus Maderno, Ambrosius Ferrethi , Ambrosius Regondi , Domenicus Petruzzy and Giorgio Regondi for services rendered to himself.

Death 1681

Master Giorgio died on January 11, 1681. Its epitaph is located in the arcade of the Kaisersteinbruch Church and has the inscription

THE HONORABLE MASTER HANS GEORG REGONDI IS BURIED HERE / HIS AGE 65 / DIED ON JANUARY 11TH ANNO 1681 / GOD GIVE HIM ETERNAL PEACE AND A HAPPY RISING. AMEN.

progeny

In the same year on October 26th, son Raymundus Regondi , baptized Johannes Franciscus, was elected abbot of Altenburg Abbey and took responsibility for the mother and younger siblings. The brothers Ambrosius and Hans Georg matriculated in 1686 as university students, so-called Parvists. In the archives of the University of Vienna and Altenburg Abbey , the Regondi family is described as ennobled . Sister Maria Raymunda married on November 24, 1684 with the Augustinians , the imperial court church in Vienna , the Viennese citizen and goldsmith Johann Baptist Sader.

Works

The brothers are usually named together in the assignments.

Archival material

literature

The Regondi family . No. 2, 1990, pp. 3-12.
Italians in Kaisersteinbruch, using the example of the brothers Ambrosius and Giorgio Regondi . No. 12, 1991, pp. 6-13.
The archive of the University of Vienna . No. 31, 1994, pp. 17-20.
Working in Niederleis . No. 38, 1995, pp. 31-36.
  • Ana Maria Altmann: The Regondi Altar . In: Festschrift for the praiseworthy church of St. Rochus and St. Sebastian in the Imperial Quarry on Leithaberg . No. 40, 1995, pp. 42-48.
  • Helmuth Furch: Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch . 2 volumes. Museum and cultural association Kaisersteinbruch, 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .
  • Helmuth Furch: The brotherhood of the Kaisersteinbrucher stonemasons, a list 1650-1730 . 2007. ISBN 978-3-9504555-4-0 .
  • Herbert Haupt: The court and court-exempt craft in baroque Vienna 1620 to 1770 . Research and contributions to the history of the city of Vienna. No. 46. Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck, Vienna, Bozen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7065-4342-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Regondi, Giorgio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Austrian imperial court stone mason of the Baroque era
DATE OF BIRTH 1616
PLACE OF BIRTH Duchy of Milan
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1681
Place of death Kaisersteinbruch