Johann Baptist Kral

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Kaisersteinbrucher high altar, 1720 a work of the brotherhood, one of them Johann Baptist Kral
Upper Belvedere

Johann Baptist Kral (* 1672 in Kaisersteinbruch ; † June 24, 1732 in Kaisersteinbruch , Hungary) was an Austrian stonemason and baroque sculptor .

Life and education

Master stonemason Gregor Kral and his wife Maria came to the imperial quarry from Bohemia in 1665 . They bought a house with a stone quarry and gardens from Nikolaus Marx. In 1672 their son Johann Baptist was born. During the Turkish hype in 1683, the mother was kidnapped to Turkey. The family was not aware of their fate.

Master Martin Trumler , son of Judge Ambrose Ferrethi , Johann Baptist took 1686 as apprentice in the craft of masons and bricklayers in Kaisersteinbruch on the acquittal to the stonemason journeymen took place 1691. Johann Baptist Kral initially worked in the communities of capos for the Prince Liechtenstein .

marriage

On February 16, 1694 he married Maria Regina, daughter of the couple Cunigunde and Sebastian Nofark. Nofark was a former imperial hawker . In 1699, after his father's death and the handling of his siblings, the entire property came to the master Johann Baptist Kral.

Tax list 1699

In the tax list of 1699 he was entered with a quarry, two cows and three horses.

Salva Guardia-Privilegium for Kaisersteinbruch 1712

→ Salva Guardia-Privilegium for Kaisersteinbruch # Kaiser and King Karl VI.

Emperor Charles VI. renewed and confirmed on December 5, 1712 the privilege of exemption from military billeting for the masters Johann Georg Haresleben , Sebastian Regondi , Johann Paul Schilck , Elias Hügel , Johann Baptist Kral and Simon Sasslaber .

Independent quarter drawer for the imperial quarry in 1714

On December 20, 1714, the Kaiser approved and renewed the independent quarter store in Kaisersteinbruch.

Guarantor for the Ödenburger handicraft

Every apprentice needed main and secondary guarantors who, in the event of a problem, stood by the teacher for the boy. This task took over in Sopron stonemasonry the two Kaiserstein Brucher Johann Baptist Kral and Johann Wieser on 18 June 1719 for the apprentice Joseph Dietrich.

Death of his wife Maria Regina

Kral's wife Maria Regina died on March 29, 1723 at the age of 46. Her two children Paul and Johann Baptist inherited their property, a quarry and two houses. After these were paid out, everything went to the widower who married Catharina Pichelmayerin.

Crida treatise

In the years that followed, Kral became so indebted in Kaisersteinbruch and in the entire region that the debts exceeded the existing assets. For March 10, 1730, the administration in Königshof set the Crida treatise by master stonemason Johann Baptist Kral. Master Elias Huegel won the bid with his purchase offer. The debtors got back only 40 kreuzers for the guilder.

Works

Archival material

  • Sopron city archive: stonemason records, assignment 1719 .
  • Vienna City and State Archives : Steinmetzakten .
  • Court Chamber Archives, Court Pay Office Books: Construction of the Karlskirche .
  • Heiligenkreuz Abbey Archive: Church books, registers, Crida procedure.

literature

  • Crida conclusion Johann Baptist Kral, master stonemason in the Heiligenkreuz quarry . In: Helmuth Furch , Elias Hügel, Hofsteinmetzmeister, 1681–1755 . Kaisersteinbruch 1992, p. 62ff. ISBN 978-3-9504555-2-6 .
  • Helmuth Furch: Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch . 2 volumes. Museum and cultural association, Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives Mosonmagyaróvár , list of taxpayers in the quarry 1699.
  2. ^ Historical lexicon Kaisersteinbruch. Volume 2 I – Z, Index: Kral Joh. Baptist, Crida Schluß on March 10, 1730 , Museum and Culture Association Kaisersteinbruch, Bruckneudorf-Kaisersteinbruch 2004.
  3. ^ Historical lexicon Kaisersteinbruch. Volume 2 I-Z. PDF.
personal data
SURNAME Kral, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian master stonemason of the Baroque
DATE OF BIRTH 1672
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaisersteinbruch
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1732
Place of death Kaisersteinbruch