Hill (family)
The Hügel family produced architects , builders , stonemasons and sculptors up to the present day .
Epitaph from 1601
The marriage of Jodocus Hügel is entered in the Gemündener parish registers in 1598 , the monumental epitaph from 1601 in the parish church of St. Peter and Paul reports from Simon Hügel . They were wealthy people because such a grave slab in the church, seen by all, meant being a generous benefactor.
Johann Franz Hügel married Margareta Feserin in 1659, and three of her sons learned the stonemason trade.
Main Franconian emigration
After the final victory over the Turks in Vienna in 1683, unprecedented building activity broke out. Times of siege and destruction, many fears, were replaced by a joie de vivre that expressed itself in a completely different way of life. Vienna became a city of baroque architecture and had a strong pull on building professionals in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. There was an acute shortage of labor and the emperor's appeal was read out in the empire.
Gemünden - Eggenburg - Kaisersteinbruch - Vienna
Johann Gallus Hügel , (1664–1719), appeared in 1692 as a master in the quarter drawer in Eggenburg , Lower Austria . Three of his sons learned the stonecutter trade.
Jacob Hügel , born in 1677, stayed in Gemünden and started his family here.
The youngest son Elias Hügel (1681–1755) came to the imperial quarry in 1694 , then western Hungary , today Burgenland , as an apprentice. As the court stone mason of Emperor Charles VI. he worked mainly for the court in Vienna. He left no male offspring and died in Kaisersteinbruch in 1755.
With Gallus and Elias the name changed, hill became Högl , although Elias continued to sign with Hügel. A branch of the family based in Poland bears the name Hegel .
The Steinmetz Quarter Shops in Eggenburg, with the sculptor's stone , and in Kaisersteinbruch, with the hard- wearing Leitha limestone , the " Kaiserstein ", are represented in all palaces and churches of this era in Vienna.
The brothers Johann Georg, Johann Caspar and Georg Andreas
Johann Georg Högl , sculptor, married in 1738 in the Michaelerkirche in Vienna , became a citizen of Bruck an der Leitha , worked on the construction of the parish church of Bruck an der Leitha until 1742 . His son Joseph Högl (* 1741) was employed there as an apprentice . Joseph worked in Moravia and in 1777 headed the Zwettler Steinmetz quarter shop.
The descendants of this branch of the family include the sculptors Franz Anton Högl (1769–1859), Oldenburg and Konstanty Hegel (1799–1876), Warsaw.
Johann Caspar Högl (1701–1776), master stonemason and sculptor, stayed in Eggenburg, married Rosalia Stricknerin, master widow, in 1724, and took over the knitting trade. He had no male heirs.
Georg Andreas Högl (1714–1780) marriedFranziska Waltnerinin Vienna in 1743, widow after master Michael Waltner. The future master craftsman Högl was 28 years old, Franziska only 21. Of the ten children they shared, two sons remained in the stonemasonry. At the craft meeting of the Viennese building works on January 11, 1780 three Högls were present, the old master Georg Andreas with his two sons Andreas Georg and Johann Philipp.
Andreas Georg Högl (1744–1782) married Magdalena Schunkin, widow after the master stonemason Carl Schunko , in 1769 in St. Stephen's Church in Vienna. In 1782, in the last year of his life, he became head of the Viennese construction works.
Johann Philipp Högl (1755–1805), on March 19, 1779, his father handed over the craft to him. In 1783 he carried outstone carvingwork at the Carmelite Church in Leopoldstadt . Johann Philipp Högl married Barbara Eckmayrin in the Schottenkirche in Vienna. Three of her 3 sons learned trades in the construction industry.
Joseph Philipp Högl (* 1782) as master stonemason in Vienna and Johann Högl (* 1783), he became city stonemason and in 1835 and 1841 head director of the Viennese building works. They had both learned their trade from their father.
Son Carl Högl (1790–1865) trained as a mason with the Viennese city architect Franz Wipplinger and was also a Viennese city architect. With his son Carl Högl jun. (1813–1872), who became a Viennese city stone mason, this family ended in Vienna.
Wuerzburg 1849
Sources and literature
- Diocesan archive of Würzburg: Gemünden parish register from 1598
- Alfons Pfrenzinger: Main Franconian emigration to Hungary and Austrian hereditary lands . Series of publications by German research in Hungary, directed by Franz Anton Basch , Vienna 1941.
- Dehio Vienna: 1st District-Inner City . Högel Philipp, Högl Karl, 2003 ISBN 3-85028-366-6 .
- Dehio Vienna: 2. – 9. District . Hög (e) l Karl u. Philipp, 1993 ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 .
- Anneliese Lussert : One of them moved out and became famous (Elias Hügel) . In: Messages from the Kaisersteinbruch Museum and Culture Association . No. 22, 1992, pp. 15-20.
- Anneliese Lussert: local poet from Franconia, on the trail of Elias Hill . In: Messages . No. 30, 1994, pp. 12-21.
- Olga Knoblach-Wolff : Gemündener doors and gates . 1996.
- Entries Högl Elias and Högl family . In: Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien Volume 3. 1994.
- Helmuth Furch: Elias Hügel column of honor for Gemünden am Main . In: Messages . No. 41, 1996, pp. 7-13. ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
- Helmuth Furch: The Hügel family from Gemünden am Main, Festschrift . In: Messages . No. 42, 1996.
- Helmuth Furch: Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch . 2 volumes. Museum and cultural association, Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .