Johann Baptist Regondi

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His seal with the stonemason's mark

Johann Baptist Regondi (* 24. June 1703 in Kaisersteinbruch ; † 18th March 1762 in Kaisersteinbruch, Hungary, today Burgenland) was Italian imperial Hofsteinmetzmeister and sculptor of the Baroque .

In the archives of the University of Vienna and Altenburg Abbey , the Regondi family is described as ennobled .

Life

He was the last Regondi in Kaisersteinbruch. His parents were master Sebastian Regondi and Anna Christina Madlin. There was a brother of the same name as early as 1700. The text on the lost grave slab tells of this life that lasted only one year ... GOD TAKEN ME FROM THIS WORLD IN THE YEAR 1700. BY A PISTOL SHOT, I LEAVE THE TEMPORARY LIFE EARLY AT THE NINTH HOUR IT WAS ...

The last Italian in Kaisersteinbruch

In October 1715, the imperial court building authority in Vienna awarded large stonemason orders for the construction of the Karlskirche to the Kaisersteinbruch brotherhood, to the masters Johann Georg Haresleben and Elias Hügel . Hügel hired Johann Baptist Regondi as an apprentice. Initially his teacher was only a partner, but after Hare's death in July 1716 he organized the work in the imperial quarry. The acquittal took place on September 14, 1721. His stonemason's mark is identical to that of his master, except for a piece of arch. During these years the father died and the mother had remarried to the older master Joseph Winkler . He studied at Karlskirche, the garden palace of Prince Eugene on Rennweg, the high altar of the Kaisersteinbruch Church and he chiseled his father's epitaph with an artful cartouche, amid the maker's mark.

In March 1730 his co-master Johann Baptist Kral's Crida trial , in which all his belongings were auctioned, he excelled and offered 2,500 guilders under certain conditions , but no more than 1,000 without these conditions. Ultimately, the incumbent judge and court stone mason Elias Hügel decided the matter for himself.

Problems between Italian and German stonemasons

In August 1738 a violent conflict broke out with subsequent legal proceedings between the French and German stonemasons. (The Italians who settled in the quarry were mostly present in the third generation.) Here, only the triggering spark should be presented, Master Regondi confirmed ... Hereby, for the sake of the dear truth, I attest to how Maister Max Trumler shouted out in the open alleys at night, that the German Stainmözen defend with respect Huntzfider , Spitzbuben and Scheyskerl - is hereby attested

  • Main wall of the Bruck parish church

  • Baroque modification of the Kaisersteinbruch Church in 1745

  • Schönbrunn Castle

  • Blue stairs

  • Palais Rottal , stairwell

  • Festive stairs of the court library

  • Court building authority: stonemason order 1752

Salva Guardia privilege for Kaisersteinbruch

→ Salva Guardia-Privilegium for Kaisersteinbruch # Queen Maria Theresa

May 4, 1743: That of her father, Emperor Karl VI. The granted privilege of exemption from military billeting is renewed and confirmed to the masters Elias Hügel , Joseph Winkler , Johann Baptist Regondi, Maximilian Trumler , Johann Paul Schilck and Franz Trumler .

Master Regondi bought a house with a garden on November 25, 1753 for his housekeeper Anna Maria Kollonitschin. On the same day she married the apprentice stonemason Adam Rummel.

Hermitage in Kaisersteinbruch

One of the Burgenland hermitages was in Kaisersteinbruch. Prelate Josef Rittsteuer writes, … around 1747 we find a hermit here again. A certain REGONDI (Johann Baptist Regondi) had this hermitage built in a quarry . Father Hermann Watzl , archivist of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey, found out that there is evidence of a hermitage in the so-called desolate monastery. A chapel in honor of St. John the Baptist must have been there. The first resident was Brother Link Conrad.

Judicial office

Regondi was elected to succeed Judge Joseph Winkler in 1747. After 3 years, at the end of 1750, the artful Mr. Elias Hügel took over the official business again.

Own craft regulations for the imperial-royal quarry on Leithaberg 1747

The masters of the Kaisersteinbruch stonemasonry

Regondi officiated as judge from 1747 to 1749, his co-masters in these years in the craft of stonemasons and masons in Kaisersteinbruch were Elias Hügel, Maximilian Trumler, and Johann Gehmacher .

After Master Elias Huegel's death on August 22, 1755 and the inventory , all those Elias Huegelian houses, properties and effects were awarded to Mr Johann Baptist Regondi against payment of 4,400 guilders.

Death 1762

On March 18, 1762, Johann Baptist Regondi was buried in the church. He remained unmarried. The Regondi family had helped shape the Kaisersteinbruch in responsible positions for more than 120 years.

Works

  • 1738–1742: Parish church Bruck an der Leitha , main wall of the parish church, with Joh. Georg Högl , Ambrosius Hartmader
  • 1742–1745: Basilica Maria Dreieichen , stone carvings for the masters Johann Baptist Regondi and Andreas Kowalt. The high altar is almost identical to the cross altar by Elias Hügel in the side chapel of the Kaisersteinbruch church .
  • 1745: Baroque renovation and expansion of the Kaisersteinbruch Church, construction of a hermitage in the quarry
  • 1747: Parish church Purbach am Neusiedler See , stone slabs and stone carving.
  • 1748–1752: Schönbrunn Palace remodeling by Empress and Queen Maria Theresa, stone carvings by Master Johann Baptist Regondi, blue stairs as a representative staircase, etc.
  • 1752: Vienna Hofburg , Leopoldine wing, extension of a balcony, with Elias hill . 12 supporting stones from Kayßer quarry with ornaments for balcony .
  • 1752–: Palais Rottal , grand staircase, with Elias hill.
  • 1759–1762: Hofburg, stonemasonry by Joh. Baptist Regondi, festive stairs to the state hall of the court library

Archival material

  • House, court and state archives , secret chamber pay office books 1753 under the leadership of court chamber councilor and secret pay office master Edler von Karl Joseph Dier. Johann Baptist Regondi, master stonemason in Kaisersteinbruch… 1,280 guilders.
  • Mosonmagyaróvár County Archives , Royal Decree Maria Theresa, 36/1484
  • University of Vienna Archive, Immatriculations
  • Heiligenkreuz Abbey Archive, church records, registers, stone mason
  • Annual accounting of the St. Nicolai colliery in Purbach, Burgenland 1747

literature

  • Julius Fleischer: The art-historical material of the secret payment office books in the state archives from 1705–1790 (Johann Baptist Regondi, Johann Baptist Paschcobeth). 1932.
  • Herbert Haupt: The handicrafts exempt from court and court in baroque Vienna 1620–1770, Johann Baptist Regondi u. a. Research on the history of Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7065-4342-2 .
  • Hans Kietaibl : The church accounts of the St. Sebastiani colliery from 1745 (with reference to the large colliery: St. Nicolai colliery). In: Burgenland homeland sheets . 1/1995, pp. 74-83, PDF on ZOBODAT
  • Helmuth Furch : in communications from the Kaisersteinbruch Museum and Culture Association. ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 :
The Regondi Family , No. 2, pp. 8-11, Oct. 1990.
Italians in Kaisersteinbruch, using the example of the brothers Ambrosius and Giorgio Regondi , No. 12, S 6-13, October 1991.
Festschrift of the Kaisersteinbruch Church , No. 40, S 42-48, Dec. 1995, therein

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive Mosonmagyarovar No 36/1494 Royal Decree of Maria Theresa.
personal data
SURNAME Regondi, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Austrian imperial stonemason master of the baroque era, judge in Kaisersteinbruch
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1703
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaisersteinbruch
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1762
Place of death Kaisersteinbruch