Michael Khöll

Stonemason's mark Michael Khöll

Michael Khöll (* 1660 ; † September 16, 1713 in Vienna ) was a master stonemason and 1709/1710 headmaster of the Viennese building works .

Life

Michael Khöll was born into a stonemason family, the father Bartholomäus Khöll was the imperial court stonemason master, the mother Christine was the daughter of Simon Unger, once a stonemason and master builder of St. Stephen's Cathedral . The mother wrote her will on July 11, 1661. In addition to his older brother David Khöll and sister Maria, she bequeathed her ... younger son Michael 150  fl sambt a silver kändl on the ornamental gold plated ... Her will witness was Adam Haresleben , currently cathedral master builder . The will was published on January 11, 1662, after Christine Khöllin had died.

Orphan

The father had remarried, he wrote his will on February 19, 1664, and died the next day. The basis of life was not personal happiness, but the work had to be delivered on time. The widow married the master stonemason Urban Illmayr , who took over and continued the business in 1665. Michael was at the age of three years with his two siblings David and Mary an orphan , her livelihood by the parental legacy secured.

Brother David as a teacher

On 15 August 1676 he took his stepfather Urban Illmayr as an apprentice to the be the main guarantor was secondary guarantor journeyman Christoph Hainrich and Veith Steinböck . The stepfather died in 1679, so that the apprentice Michael was led by his brother David, now a young master, to be acquitted as a journeyman and brother on September 1, 1681.

Death of brother David

David Khöll ordered in his will of March 10, 1683 ... if I die without a physical heir ... my dear brother Michael Khöll, journeyman stonemason, my stonemason huts or workshop next to the old Kärntnertor , including the stonemason's tools and 100 Rt and stones in addition, ... a silver kandl, gold-plated inside and out, which I inherited from our father blessed ... The publication took place on September 28, 1683, after brother David had died.

masterpiece

On January 31, 1690, he was given the masterpiece that he presented on January 9, 1691. Because of the many mistakes it had, he had to pay a fine of 16 thalers. He paid this back in installments until 1698. All the young masters received heavy sentences.

On June 27, 1692, Master Michael Khöll received Viennese citizenship . In the years 1694 to 1713 he was recognized in the tax assessments as a wealthy master and house owner. In his inherited house, which was next to the Augustinerbastei opposite the Kärntnertor Theater , Abraham a Santa Clara spent his free time with the Khöll family.

View of the Liechtenstein City Palace

Grand staircase

Liechtenstein City Palace in Bankgasse

Dominikus Andreas Graf Kaunitz acquired some houses on Bankgasse and Minoritenplatz in 1691 and had a palace built on these plots in 1694 according to the plan of Domenico Martinelli . In the same year he decided to sell it to Prince Johann Adam von Liechtenstein .

With this purchase, which then led to the Liechtenstein City Palace , all building materials, whether they were in the building itself, or in the imperial and Eggenburg quarries , or in the workhouses of the master stonemasons Ambrosius Ferrethi , Giovanni Battista Passerini and Martin Trumler , passed to Prince Johann Adam . In the years 1694, 1695 and 1698, master Michael Khöll contracted to deliver the corbels and panels of the main cornice and the window frames. In 1699 he and his co-master Wolfgang Steinböck were assigned the stonemasonry for the great staircase (made of hard stone from Kaisersteinbrucher) for the amount of 9,395 guilders.

The Viennese masters elected him on February 23, 1709 as Oberzechmeister . On December 7, 1709 he officiated as a will witness for Master Johann Thomas Schilck, brother of Master Johann Paul Schilck in Kaisersteinbruch.

death

Michael Khöll, a bourgeois master stonemason, died on September 16, 1713 at the “ weissen Löwen” at the Salzgrieß am podageta and lungl defect at the age of 53. He had already written his will on November 9th, 1700, in it that ... my dead body would be placed in the new gotts akher in front of the Schottenthor in outer krufften ... (i.e. outside the city), married hostess Anna Christina was a universal heir , Master Veith Steinböck will witness. It was published on September 20, 1713, 13 years later.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Richard Groner : Vienna as it was . P. 477.

literature

• Vienna City and State Archives : tax files, stone mason files, event logs .
• Otto E. Plettenbacher: History of the stonecutters of Vienna in the 17th century. An economic and cultural historical as well as sociological investigation . Dissertation, University of Vienna 1960.
• Franz Wilhelm: New sources on the history of the princely Liechtenstein property , In: Yearbook Central Commission 1911.
• Helmuth Furch : Master Ambrosius Ferrethi, Liechtenstein City Palace in Bankgasse . In: Communications of the Kaisersteinbruch Museum and Culture Association , No. 38, 1995, pp. 40–43. ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
• Helmuth Furch: The quarter drawer of the stonemasonry and bricklaying trade in the imperial quarry in relation to the Vienna main drawer - 17th / 18th century. C. In: IV. International Craft History Symposium Veszprém, 9.-11. November 1994 . Edited by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest / Veszprém 1995, pp. 99–102.
• Helmuth Furch: Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch . 2 volumes. Museum and cultural association, Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .
• Dehio Vienna: 1st district, St. Stephen's Cathedral , 2003.