Matthias Winkler

Stonemason's mark Matthias Winkler

Matthias Winkler (* around 1682 in Kühnring near Eggenburg , Lower Austria ; † 1753 in Vienna ) was an Austrian master stonemason and baroque sculptor , imperial court stone mason , headmaster of the Viennese building works and master builder at St. Stephan .

The relationship with master stonemason Joseph Winkler is certain, but has not yet been further explored. Born in 1665, he married (second marriage?) In the imperial quarry on Leithaberg and held the office of judge there for 13 years .

Life

Karlskirche (details with columns, gable relief)

Questenberg-Kaunitz Palace

Grand staircase, steps Kaiserstein

Teutonic Order Church

Cathedral builder Veith Steinböck accepted the boy Matthias as an apprentice on July 1, 1696 , and released him on September 21, 1701 in front of an open drawer as a journeyman and brother .

On May 15, 1715, he and his co-master Leopold Kämbl were granted citizenship of Vienna. He lodged opposite the "White Ox", the pub of the Raab merchants . (today meat market - Dominican Bastion )

In 1731 his sons Jacob Anton, 3½ years old, and Johann Jacob 5½ years old, died. On December 24, 1738 he lost daughter Maria Franziska at the age of 7. The “stonemason house” on the old meat market was given as the residence.

Karlskirche in Vienna

Item to Matthias Winkler master stonemason here, because of the stonemason stones from 1716 to 1717, according to the invoice a conto paid 300  florins , furthermore a deduction by virtue of his receipt No. 129 gives one hundred guilders. The invoices of the imperial court building authority for outstanding amounts of money document the collaboration between the master Elias Hügel from Kaisersteinbruch and the Viennese master Matthias Winkler at least until 1729.

Questenberg-Kaunitz Palace

The palace in Vienna's inner city, Johannesgasse 5, was built in three stages, the rear wing was built in 1718–1724 by Franz Jänggl , a stonemason for master Matthias Winkler from Vienna, with family ties to Eggenburg and Kaisersteinbruch. According to the bill , Winkler supplied free pillars , a pilaster , all with capitals and intended for the rear wing of the large courtyard, a pillar in the carriage shed , window frames and cornices on the first floor, chimneys , chimneys , bay windows and steps leading to a spiral staircase .

Hofsteinmetzmeister

After the death of Johann Carl Trumler , Matthias Winkler received the title of court stonemason master and also took over his office as one of the four jury building and foremen who were used each time for the court appraisals and inspections.

Teutonic Order Church of St. Elisabeth

The court stonemason presented the German Order with an invoice and receipt from April 23, 1721 for stonemasonry in the amount of 1539 fl 6½ Kreuzer. In the Teutonic Order Church of St. Elisabeth he made door frames, pillars, cornices, capitals, bases for statues and the parapets of the windows and oratories . The sculptor and plasterer Giovanni Antonio Canevale made 20 capitals for Matthias Winkler for the Teutonic Order Church in 1720/1721 .

Oberzechmeister of the Wiener Bauhütte

The guild books of 1721 document him as headmaster. From the community of masters, the colliery in the narrower sense, the election of the senior and junior master was made every year around December 21st. Sometimes the Oberzechmeister was also called the drinking father . He was in charge of the whole trade. The election was carried out on the town hall . There the Oberzechmeister “resigned” his Oberzechamt after the term of office had expired. Then one stepped to the election of new Zechmeister. The old Zechmeister continued the official business until January of the following year. It was only with the accounting of the old upper ecclesiastical master that the latter took up his post and took on the associated responsibility.

Master builder for St. Stephan

High grave of Friedrich III. in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral

After the death of Master Thomas Haresleben , the brotherhood book of the main hut in Vienna reads .. Anno 1733, October 20th, I am Matthias Winkler, imperial court and bourgeois stonemason master, paumeister was honored by the laudable cathedral monastery of St. Steffan here in Vienna .

The tomb of Emperor Friedrich III was part of the cathedral builder's area of ​​responsibility every year . to clean in the cathedral. A letter from Matthias Winkler, master builder at St. Stephan, dated August 26, 1734

To a highly commendable imperial court chamber

Submissive - most obedient pleading. Your High Count Excellency and Grace.

The annual 6 fl., Requested for cleaning up the most glorious KAYSERS FRIDERICI GRABS.

St. Thekla Church in Vienna

Thekla Church in the 4th district

In 1752 the Austrian Piarists bought a piece of land on today's Wiedner Hauptstrasse , on which they wanted to build a college. The previous building was soon demolished and the construction of the monastery and the church began. The architect Matthias Gerl provided the plans for the complex . The stone carving was done by the Viennese master Matthias Winkler and, after his death, Franz Joseph Steinböck . The construction was completed around 1756 and the church was consecrated on September 26 of the same year.

Archival material

• Brno City Archives : Questenberg Palace, invoice no.3 .
• Vienna City and State Archives : Stone mason files, unhoused books, IB / 2 / f 205 Matthias Winkler as Oberzechmeister .
• House, Court and State Archives , State Calendar 1721 .
• Hofkammerarchiv: Letter from Matthias Winkler, cathedral master builder .

literature

• Alois Kieslinger : Stone handicraft in Eggenburg and Zogelsdorf . In: Unser Heimat, monthly newspaper of the Association for Regional Studies and Homeland Protection of Lower Austria and Vienna 8, 1935, Issue 5, ISSN  1017-2696 , pp. 141–161 and Issue 6–7, pp. 177–193.
• Otto E. Plettenbacher: History of the stonecutters of Vienna in the 17th century. An economic and cultural historical as well as sociological investigation. Price list 1688, set order of the stone carvings . Dissertation, University of Vienna 1960.
• Helmuth Furch : In: Messages of the Museum and Culture Association Kaisersteinbruch . ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .

The Winkler family . No. 20, 1991, pp. 6-13.

• Helmuth Furch: Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch . 2 volumes. Museum and cultural association, Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .
• Burghard Gaspar: The "White Stone of Eggenburg". The Zogelsdorf sand-lime brick and its masters . In: The Waldviertel . 44, 1995, No. 4, ISSN  0259-8957 , pp. 331-367.
• Herbert Haupt: The court and court-exempt craft in baroque Vienna 1620 to 1770 . Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7065-4342-2 , ( research and contributions to the history of the city of Vienna 46).