Johann Michael Strickner (stonemason)

Stonemason's mark Joh. Michael Strickner

Győr , abbot house

St. Peter's Church in Vienna with portico

Portico of St. Peter's Church in Vienna

Bohemian Court Chancellery in Vienna, Puttenstiege

Johann Michael Strickner (* 1720 in Eggenburg , Lower Austria ; † May 6, 1782 in Kaisersteinbruch , Hungary, today Burgenland) was an Austrian master stonemason and sculptor and judge in Kaisersteinbruch.

Life

Eggenburg, parish church of St. Stephan

Johann Michael Strickner was born in 1720 as the youngest child of the Eggenburg master stonemason Mathias Strickner and his wife Maria Rosalia. His grandfather Paul Strickner immigrated from Innsbruck in 1658. After his father's death, his mother married the young Eggenburg master stonemason and sculptor Johann Caspar Högl . Johann Michael learned the stonemason trade from his stepfather, the acquittal took place on March 4, 1739.

Since the 1690s, some Eggenburg stonemasons, including masters, had married into the Imperial Quarry . Their names in chronological order: Reichardt Fux , 1689; Johann Georg Haresleben , 1696; Johann Paul Schilck , 1700; Joseph Winkler , 1719 and finally Johann Michael Strickner. There was no place for the master's son in the Eggenburg trade. And so he became a journeyman with master Joseph Winkler, acting judge in Kaisersteinbruch, who was around eighty and was loyal to the authorities.

Marriage after Kaisersteinbruch

After his death on December 15, 1748, the very wealthy widow Eva Rosina Winkler chose Johann Michael as her husband, and a marriage contract was negotiated. The wedding took place on January 28, 1750, at the age of 28 he came into a family with 5 children, from Anastasia 22 years to Carl 8 years old. In December 1750 she gave birth to her son Joseph Michael, who died in 1752.

Judicial office

Due to the close connection between the Eggenburg Högl / Hügel and Strickner families , Elias Hügel was like a father to the young master Johann Michael. When he took over the judge's office from him at the end of 1751, the Kaisersteinbruch peculiarity became apparent again: Not the long-time residents, but mostly the immigrants carried out this activity. His successor was the master stonemason Johann Wolfgang, who had immigrated from Salzburg, and then the master weaver Gregor Nagl.

Master of the Kaisersteinbruch stonemasonry

Strickner served as judge from 1752 to 1765, his co-masters in those years were Elias Hügel, Leopold Cassar, Johann Gehmacher, Johann Baptist Regondi , Martin Trumler jun., Franz Leopold Winkler , Joseph Stockmayer and Andreas Kowalt.

Brotherhood of the Holy Christian Doctrine

On March 19, 1760, the brotherhood of the Holy Christians was founded in Kaisersteinbruch on the orders of "Your Excellency the Bishop of Raab Franz Graf von Zichy". Rector was Martin Klempay, counterhandler of the kaiserl.-Königigl. Thirtieth Office ( Customs Office ) and Vice-Rector Michael Strickner, “stately judge”. As in a role play, people from the Bible were distributed among the local population according to their “importance”. They had to take exams.

A complaint was made to the Comitats administration in Wieselburg to be at the mercy of the administrator in Königshof , as a representative of the Heiligenkreuz monastery as an authority. Their ancestors, as foreigners , ignorant of the local rights, to be traded and unreasonably valued by him in 1653 and that until now. The masters demanded official, secular support for clear regulations.

The Urbarial Convention between Abbot Alberich from Heiligenkreuz Abbey and the subjects of Steinbruch, sealed by Franz Zichy, Comitats - Notary, took place on April 18, 1765 (determination of all taxes, robot services ). Johann Michael Strickner died on May 6, 1782, his widow Eva Rosina sold the property.

Works

• 1750–1759: Győr , palace of the archabbots of the Benedictine abbey of Pannonhalma , so-called abbot house. Commissioned for master Joseph Winkler, then the master, after the marriage in 1750 Johann Michael Strickner took over.
• 1750–1753: Kaisersteinbruch , slaughterhouse, documented as a school building from 1808.
• 1751–1753: St. Peter's Church in Vienna , porticus, step stones, etc.
• 1751–1754: Bohemian court chancellery in Vienna, Puttenstiege etc.
• 1758–1761: Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt , new main stairs
• 1772: Delivery of stone carvings (staircase, sills, ...) to the Viennese master Carl Wasserburger.

Archival material

• Vienna City and State Archives : Steinmetzakten .
• Forchtenstein Castle , Princely Esterházy Family Archives : Rent office accounts of the Eisenstadt rule .
• Heiligenkreuz Abbey Archive: Church books, registers
• Kaisersteinbruch Archive: Activ book of the Roman Catholic parish school , memorial book of the teacher Johann Wimmer .

literature

• Helmuth Furch : 400 years of the Kaisersteinbruch, Festschrift , Urbarium, 1990, p. 30. ISBN 978-3-9504555-1-9 .
• Helmuth Furch: In: Messages of the Museum and Culture Association Kaisersteinbruch . ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .

Master Johann Michael Strickner, judge in Kaisersteinbruch 1752–1766

Buildings of the Esterházy princes and the Kaiserstein . No. 56, 1999, pp. 20-30.

• Burghard Gaspar: The white stone of Eggenburg. The Zogelsdorf sand-lime brick and its masters. In: The Waldviertel . Issue 4, 1995.
• Robert Seemann and Herbert Summesberger: Viennese stone hiking trails , the geology of the big city. Peterskirche . Brandstätter, 1999, ISBN 3-85447-787-2 , pp. 69f.
• Helmuth Furch : Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch. 2 volumes. Museum and cultural association Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .