Mathias Lorentisch

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Mathias Loren table (* 1580 in the province of Como , Lombardy , Italy ; † 27. January 1654 in Kaisersteinbruch , Hungary , now Burgenland ) was an Italian master stonemason and sculptor of the Baroque .

Lorentisch is the Germanized form of an Italian name, Laurenti from Carabbia is possible .

Life

Master Ulrich Payos took the boy Mathias Loren table 1594 Steinmetz - apprentice on the acquittal to journeymen took place in 1598 at the Wiener Neustadt stonemasonry.

Crafts Code 1625

After the death of master stonemason Bernhard Tencalla in 1627, his property, house and quarry, was divided. Widow Maria, who married Master Mathias Lorentisch, received one half. On this occasion , she donated a green damask skirt for the new church , from which a chasuble was made.

Head of the Kaisersteinbruch quarter drawer

He held the position of head of the quarter store for stonemasons and masons in the Imperial Quarry in 1644, and the quarter master was re-elected every year. Andre Ruffini served as judge .

Main huts in Vienna and Wiener Neustadt

The imperial quarry was drawn into the violent dispute between the two main huts in Vienna and Wiener Neustadt. This resulted in correspondence . Master Lorentisch in a letter to Wiener Neustadt dated June 21, 1644: .. and they wanted the main huts only in Vienna , so that all other surrounding places, as well as the Neustadt handicrafts, should obey them ..

The Kaisersteinbruch masters really got a problem, their journeymen were not recognized in Vienna, were not allowed to work or come to the craft. In this matter, the court stonemason Pietro Maino Maderno was asked to use his excellent Viennese contacts for them.

The letters from the Kaisersteinbrucher handicraft are clearly written in the same hand, which suggests a carousel.

Judgment day

Banntaiding on July 29, 1647, Abbot Michael Schnabel stated that no court day had been held since 1642 , ... "because of wartime injustices , including the unpleasant plague here in this village". Two masters were appointed to provide the stately Leithgebhaus with the necessary wines every time, Domenicus Petruzzy and Mathias Lorentisch.

List of all Roman Catholic residents in the quarry

The Heiligenkreuz as authorities lifted in 1653 with a list of all the Easter confession and Holy. Communion beneficiaries on the one hand the 125 residents in the quarry , at the same time a list of houses was created. Wife Maria, sons Johann, Mathias and boy Martin Gschwandner lived with master stonemason Mathias Lorentisch.

Death 1654

Mathias Lorentisch died on January 27, 1654. After his death, the mother Maria handed over the entire property to her son Johann .

Works

Archival material

  • Wiener Neustadt city ​​archives, stonemason files, correspondence Kaisersteinbruch - Vienna - Wiener Neustadt as headmaster
  • Heiligenkreuz Abbey archive, register, billing accounts, inventory by Mathias Lorentisch .

literature

  • Bollwerk Forchtenstein , Catalog of the Burgenland State Exhibition 1993, Burgenland Research, Special Volume XI.
  • Helmuth Furch , In Mitteilungen des Museums- und Kulturverein Kaisersteinbruch, ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
    • Italians in quarry on Leithaberg , No. 12, S6f, October 1991
    • Master stonemasons who worked in Vienna and in the quarry on Leithaberg , No. 24, S 15-20, February 1993
    • The masters of an honorable craft of stonemasons and masons in the imperial quarry on Leythaberg, Part 1 , No. 28, pp. 18-25, October 1993
    • The Masters, Part 2 , No. 30, pp. 21-29, January 1994
  • Helmuth Furch, Historisches Lexikon Kaisersteinbruch , 2 volumes, Museum and Cultural Association Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Lorentisch, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian master stonemason of the Baroque
DATE OF BIRTH 1580
PLACE OF BIRTH Como Province
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1654
Place of death Kaisersteinbruch