Johann Högl

Johann Högl (* 1783 in Vienna ; † after 1841 ibid) was an Austrian master stonemason in Vienna and head of the Wiener Bauhütte .

Life

Johann was born into the Högl stonemason family, which has existed for generations . His grandfather Georg Andreas Högl , who grew up in the Eggenburg stonemason center in Lower Austria , married in Vienna and became a master of the Viennese stonemasonry . In the last year of his life he handed over his stonemason hut in Roßau to his son Johann Philipp, who was 24 years old. This Johann Philipp, Johann's father, married in Vienna Schottenkirche the 1781 host daughter Barbara Eckmayerin. Like his older brother Philipp Joseph, he learned the stonemason trade from his father himself. The younger brother Carl (* 1789) learned the trade of bricklayer .

Stonemason apprenticeship

Whitsun quarter June 2, 1797

Mr. Johann Philipp Högl , master stonemason, lets his son Johann Högl, born in Vienna, become involved in the stonemasonry trade . Its guarantors are Mr. Franz Jäger and Mr. Father, both civil stonemasons. Has paid the fee and submitted the school report.

Was acquitted on June 14th, 1801 by Mr. Franz Jäger as superior master after having submitted a Christian teaching certificate and paid fee .

Admission to the master craftsman examination

June 10, 1806

From the craft of the bourgeois master builders, masons and stonemasons in Vienna, there is a testimony that the honorable journeyman stonemason Johann Högl, a son of the deceased bourgeois master mason Mr Philipp Högl from the time of his father's death by five years of his wife mother, the Philipp Höglischen wife Wittib continued the bourgeois stonemasonry with all diligence and everyone's satisfaction, and darbey had acquired such knowledge and skills that, as a registered pupil under the direction of the bourgeois master stonemason, Mr. Joseph Prantner, according to his testimony, he would, however, be suitable and be admitted to the further master’s examination notarized by craftsmanship.

Master based in Viennese craft

June 6, 1807

After the wife Wittib of the blessed bourgeois master stonemason, Mr Philipp Högl, gave up her position as a master craftsman to the praiseworthy city magistrate, and her son Johann Högl received this completed bourgeois stonemason's position from the praiseworthy city magistrate through his theoretical and practical skills, including the burgher and other taxis there has erleget, so Mr. Johann Högl is a bourgeois master stonemason after already put- civic oath and after the Laad paid Einverleibungstax by sixty guilders bey this Hauptlaad einverleibet and him above the ordinary sworn in today, the seat was bey the craft dependent .

Teacher

Two documented examples: On December 26th, 1808, Mr. Johann Högl, a bourgeois master stonemason, had a young boy named Ferdinand Johann Gigel, born in Vienna, set aside the stonemason trade for 5 years. Its guarantors are Adam Jungbauer main and Michael Holzbauer secondary guarantors , both stonemasons. He was acquitted on May 30, 1813 after having submitted a certificate from the military command and paid the fee. The apprenticeship has been withheld in the craft.

On the same day a second apprentice named Karl Rosenberg, born in Vienna. . He was acquitted on June 27, 1813, but since he is in the military , he did not pay the normal tax of 9 guilders 45 kreuzers .

His craft business had three journeymen in 1819, but at the moment there are no known stone cutting jobs.

Johann Högl received the professional title of city master stonemason and for the years 1835 and 1841 the Viennese master craftsmen at the town hall elected him head of the Viennese building works.

literature

• Vienna City and State Archives : Steinmetzakten .
• City archive Eggenburg: Aufding and Freysagebuch the Eggenburg stonemasons' guild .
• 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 .