Peter Concorz

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Peter Concorz (* 1605 in Trier ; † April 10, 1658 in Vienna ) was an imperial chamber sculptor , court stone mason , and later court architect and court building clerk. In some sources it is also referred to as Conchort , Chonchartz or Khonkhortz .

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Nikolsburg, St. Anna Church with Loreto Chapel

Peter was born in the independent city of Trier in the Holy Roman Empire .

Loreto Chapel

The first information about Concorz can be found in Nikolsburg from 1622 . Cardinal Franz Xaver von Dietrichstein had the Loreto Chapel expanded into a parish church. He commissioned the architect Giovanni Giacomo Tencalla , Pietro Maderna for the stone carvings and Peter Concorz for the sculptural design.

Peter Concorz married Maria Reischin, widow of the merchant Wilhelm Reisch , on January 20, 1630 in St. Stephen's Cathedral .

Eisgrub Castle in Moravia

Prince Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein (1611–1684) commissioned his master builder Giovanni Giacomo Tencalla in 1632 to design the park of Schloss Eisgrub with water arts. It was carried out by the court stonemason Pietro Maino Maderno together with his younger colleague Peter Concorz.

In 1637 he was appointed chamber sculptor with court freedom and court quarters, but without salary. In a letter to the masters of the Viennese building works , Peter Concorz refers to his special rights as a court craftsman. These rights were a great nuisance to the professional masters. See also Elias Hill .

Conflict stonemason - sculptor

The Viennese master stonemasons accused Peter Concorz of never having learned the trade. In several letters to the Vienna City Council they demanded his punishment. This sculptor, who does not cease from our handling, which he cannot, even less has learned to punish and arrest. To arrest his journeymen who were warned by us at the imperial city court and to be able to give away the stone work they had brought with them . Another argument is the stonemason's mark . He and his companions should be forbidden to use one. Because - then we stonemasons could also train apprenticeship goldsmiths.

In 1638 he and his wife Maria bought the house at Freyung No. 157, on the corner of Renngasse and Freyung, with the name of the sign "Zum golden Strauss". Today there is the art gallery of the Kunstforum Wien .

Freyung, from Canaletto, 1758 - he lived in the 2nd (white) house from the right

Major order from Vienna's Schottenkirche

An incident occurred on May 21, 1634 when Emperor Ferdinand II visited the Schottenkirche with his wife Eleonora Gonzaga and daughters . Little stones that had detached themselves from the church building gave rise to wild panic, with the emperor himself being thrown to the ground. They thought the church was collapsing. That was the beginning of the end of the old building. The next year the tower burned down by lightning, was rebuilt in 1636, but collapsed again on February 3, 1637, ... because it was only built on the old Runzen.

Hofsteinmetzmeister Peter Concorz had already taken part in the work on the tower of the old church and when it collapsed, his life was in great danger. This stonemasonry on the tower aroused the annoyance of the bourgeois stonemasons of the main hut in Vienna. They accused him of never having learned the trade and demanded that he be punished in several letters to the city council in Vienna.

In July 1638 Abbot Johann Walterfinger of the Schottenstift concluded a contract with Markus Spätz and Antonio Carlone , bricklayers and master builders in Vienna. The former was in charge of construction management, the other was in charge of building supervision. Carlone had to resign due to illness.

Abbot Johann died during the construction work, on March 2, 1642 the new Abbot Anton Spindler awarded the contract to Andrea Allio the Elder and his nephew Andrea Allio the Younger , after which the old church was to be torn down and the new one, including two towers and a crypt, should be built. All stone carving work was entrusted to Peter Concorz, imperial chamber sculptor and court stone mason. If one proceeded a little more considerately with the choir (therefore Romanesque remains still exist), there was no protection of the main nave. In the years 1642/43 the reconstruction of the Schottenkirche began. The question about the stones used was answered by buying a quarry in Kaisersteinbruch .

A separate contract was signed for the construction of the main tower. A little premature, long before its actual completion, the church on May 31, 1648 by Archbishop Philipp Friedrich Graf von Breuner consecrated . On the occasion of these celebrations, Master Peter Concorz received a field in Hernals from the monastery .

Activity in the imperial favorita

Concorz's participation in this court work is recorded in the court pay office books from 1639 onwards. This extensive, multi-courtyard imperial pleasure palace complex was expanded in 1615 to become the summer residence of Emperor Matthias and Empress Anna . The name Favorita has existed since 1623. After this, the pleasure garden was laid out by Giovanni Battista Carlone and structural extensions were made.

1642 Purchase of a quarry in the imperial quarry

Purchase and sale contract dated June 14, 1642 between Abbot Michael Schnabel from Heiligenkreuz Abbey and the civil sculptor and stonemason in Vienna, Petrum Concorz. The property was a quarry - twenty fathoms long and fifteen wide - and a piece of land for a house to be built for him and his people in Steinbruch am Leythaberg . Altogether around two hundred and fifty guilders including two beautiful stone door frames. Master Peter had presented himself with a beautiful carved picture.

With the Viennese master Hans Herstorffer there were violent defensive reactions of the brotherhood, with Concorz there is no indication of this. The acquired part of the quarry was not very large with approx. 550 m² and - more importantly, the good contact with the court sculptor and stonemason Pietro Maino Maderno , with whom he worked in Nikolsburg and Eisgrub.

1645 - Unterzechmeister of the Wiener Bauhütte

Directory from November 4, 1644 - what any bourgeois master stonemason and mason in Vienna, as well as the journeymen for the raising of the New Imperial Freedoms, give as a master 45 kreuzer , a journeyman 15 kreuzer. Accordingly, it follows (excerpt):

  • Pietro Maino Maderno hunted for himself and four journeymen - 1 guilder 45 kreuzers
  • Hieronymus Bregno hunts for himself and a journeyman - 1 guilder
  • Ambrosius Petruzzy killed September 5th for himself and two journeymen - 1 guilder 15 kreuzers
  • Antonius Purisol slays July 31st for himself and two journeymen - 1 guilder 15 kreuzers
  • Hans Herstorffer shot July 31 for him and his three journeymen - 1 guilder 30 kreuzers
  • Peter Concorz hunts for him and his seven journeymen - 2 guilders 30 kreuzers

His problems with the craft were resolved. Like other Kaisersteinbruch masters, he also became a Viennese master. On December 21, 1644, Mr. Peter Concorz was elected to the position of Unterzechmeister at the town hall by both the master masons and masons.

Jasomirgott fountain in the Schottenhof

Court builder and construction clerk

After the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648, building activity began at the imperial court. It was mainly about repair work on building damage. Only in second place in these years is the new construction or expansion of the imperial buildings. Hofbauschreiber Concorz was entrusted with the management of this construction work. The Viennese Prater , rooms in the old castle , the green pleasure house and Laxenburg Palace were named . The dilapidated roof of the imperial library was also repaired, as was that of the court chamber council room in the castle.

In the middle of the Schottenhof stands - still today - the Heinrich Jasomirgott fountain , built in 1652 by master stonemason Hans Paal. The statue of Duke Heinrich Jasomirgott was made by the sculptor Sebastian Wagner. Several documents relating to this fountain have been preserved.

On December 22nd, 1651, court building clerk Concorz confirmed that he collected water from a three- inch- wide pipe from the rectory of St. Ulrich , introduced it into the city into the large kettle behind the new castle on the bastion and from there on forever - and for the first time at imperial expense - a one-inch-wide tube led into the Schottenkloster. According to a document dated the same day, Abbot Peter Heister and the convent of the Schottenkloster give the court builder Concorz a particular of the size of their customs water for eternity - the recorded 0, which he can tap and direct to any place, give away or to sell.

Mourning scaffolding for Ferdinand III.

Drawing of the epitaph, stone slab no longer preserved

The Castrum doloris for Emperor Ferdinand III built in the Augustinian Court Church in Vienna . was the work of the court architect Peter Concorz. The exact description of the mourning scaffolding has been preserved, as has the copy of an etching with copperplate engraving by the court painter Nicolaus von Hoy and the court copper engraver Franciscus van der Steen and kept in the Albertina Collection of Prints and Drawings .

Testament and epitaph

As requested, his body was buried in the Schottenkirche in front of the St. Sebastian altar with the image of Tobias Pock and the altar was covered in black with his coat of arms and shield . The Schotten and Heiligenkreuzer bells and none else should be ordered.

His landlady received half of the house and 8,000 florins. They had no offspring, so he decided that a boy named Hans Jacob, who his brother already knew, had to receive 4,000  florins and should be called CONCORZ after the temporal accession . His brother, the clergyman Jacoby Concorz, pastor of St. Lorenzen am Hengstberg in Styria, became his universal heir and faithful executor of the will .

The inscription on the grave slab reads:

ALHIE RUHET THE NOBLE AND STRICT MR. PETER CONCHARTZ RÖM. KAY. MAJ. FERDINAND III. THE HIGHEST MEMORIAL AND THE KHÖNIG TO HUNGARN AND BÖHEIMB. MAY. LEOPOLDI Archduke OF AUSTRIA WESTER HOF BUILDING MASTER AND FARM CONSTRUCTION WRITER WHO SLEEPED ON APRIL 10TH IN GOD'S BLESSED. WHOSE SOUL GOD GRACE. AMEN. 1658.

Archival material

  • Stephansdom register archive: marriage book 1630 .
  • Znojmo City Archives, construction of the Loretto Church, master stonemason Pietro Maino Maderno, chamber sculptor Peter Concorz.
  • Vienna City and State Archives A 61/22: Stone mason files , event protocols .
  • Heiligenkreuz Abbey Archive No. 51 / III / 2: Purchase contract .
  • Schottenkirche archive: contracts, copy and drawing of all epitaphs .

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