Johann Wieser

Laxenburg Church

Tower stairs, Kaiserstein

Johann Wieser (* before 1697, † after 1731) was an Austrian master stonemason and baroque sculptor .

Life

From 1697 to 1731 the life of this master in the imperial quarry on Leythaberg can be documented. Master stonemason Johann Wieser and his wife Regina bought a house with a herb garden in 1697 from Jakob Fischer, the hunter of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey as the rule. On January 18, 1697, their daughter Anna was baptized in the Kaisersteinbruch Church.

Dispute on June 25, 1701 between master stonemasons Martin Trumler and Johann Wieser

In the dispute and great disagreement between Martin Trumler and Johann Wieser, the fact remains that the place where the pig stall was built should have the Wieser at the pleasure of the rulers at his house. But Trumler may choose another place to build his forge near his quarry.

Furthermore, he should lead Trumler the rubble to the Wieser's house garden completely and be responsible for having the garden wall pushed into it by the rubble that was thrown into it and erecting it.

After the death of the master Martin Trumler on March 20, 1705, the half-orphan Maximilian was born on October 6, 1705 . The mother Maria Elisabetha Trumlerin , now a widow, chose Johann Wieser as her godfather . On November 14, 1706, he was one of the witnesses when she married Elias Hügel, a stonemason .

Meister Wieser's daughter Elisabeth married the stonemason Andreas Redl on February 16, 1716. His wife Regina Wieserin, Elisabeth's mother, died in 1709. After another marriage, Meister Wieser became widower again and on February 24, 1716 married Anna Maria Rollerin, the daughter of the Kaisersteinbruch schoolmaster . Only honorable masters of the quarter drawer of the stonemasonry, the judge Johann Paul Schilck , as well as Franz Trumler , Elias Hügel and Johann Georg Haresleben acted as witnesses .

Independent quarter drawer for the imperial quarry in 1714

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

→ Main article : “Emperor Karl VI. confirmed the quarter drawer in 1714 in the article Handicrafts of the stonemasons and masons in Kaisersteinbruch

Main guarantor of the Ödenburg stonemason trade in 1719

Master stonemason Johann Sager from Ödenburger Handwerk took on the Kaisersteinbruch boy Joseph Dietrich as an apprentice on June 18, 1719 .

Registration in Aufdingbuch the masons and bricklayers to Sopron .. bey a respectable Handtwerck but grind appeared Johann Sager, civil Steinmetz and has had a boy aufdingen .. For the Father Clemens Dietrich, a stonemason journeyman, both Mitmeister took Johann Baptist Kral and Johann Wieser the guarantee. The master pays half of the extra fee and the boy half, the wage is 5 fl per  year . Master Sager had worked in the Kaisersteinbrucher Brotherhood a few years earlier .

Laxenburg parish church

The construction of the church in Laxenburg began in 1693, Emperor Leopold I himself laid the foundation stone on June 11th . Construction management was carried out by Christian Alexander Oedtl . The new church was consecrated on May 31, 1699. After a construction interruption, the tower was erected in 1712, stone carvings are documented in the years 1722–1726. The church office accounts name Master Johann Wieser with the hard Kaisersteinbrucher stone, as an example the steps of the spiral staircase to the choir.

Because überhäufter debt burden of Johann Wieser, gewester master stonemason, his property was auctioned off in April 1731 and the Creditores distributed. Wieser had left here several years ago and had decided to go to summer .

Archival material

• Sopron city archive: stonemason records, assignment 1719 .
• Vienna City and State Archives: Steinmetzakten .
• Church office invoices for receipt and spending both in the worthy church and parish church of the Holy Cross, in the Prince-Princes Marckt Laxenburg .
• Heiligenkreuz Abbey Archive: Church books, registers, Krida procedures.

literature

• Johann Wieser, master stonemason in the Heiligenkreuz quarry . In: Helmuth Furch , Mitteilungen des Museums- und Kulturverein Kaisersteinbruch, No. 49, 1998, p. 10, 21ff. ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
• Helmuth Furch: Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch . 2 volumes. Museum and cultural association, Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Archive of Heiligenkreuz Abbey , departure on the related complaints in the pantheon held in the quarry on Leythaberg on June 15, 1701, rubr. 51, fasc. IV. No. 9. Contained in communications no. 49, p. 7.