Simon Sasslaber

Seal of Simon Sasslaber

Daun-Kinsky Palace

Karlskirche in Vienna

Kaisersteinbrucher high altar

Simon Sass Laber (* 1673 in Feldkirchen in Carinthia ; † 25. April 1740 in Kaisersteinbruch , Hungary , today Burgenland ) was an Austrian master stonemason and sculptor of the Baroque .

Life

Simon Sasslaber hired the judge and court stone mason Ambrosius Ferrethi as an apprentice in 1687 , the acquittal took place in 1692. His father Pongratz Sasslaber once learned the mason trade with master Simone Retacco in Vienna. Simon Sasslaber, 39 years old, married Anastasia Passerinin, 49 years old, a Ferrethi daughter, widow after the judge and master Giovanni Battista Passerini , in 1712 .

Salva Guardia privilege for Kaisersteinbruch

→ Salva Guardia-Privilegium for Kaisersteinbruch # Kaiser and King Karl VI.

Emperor Charles VI. renewed and confirmed on December 5, 1712 the privilege of exemption from military billeting for the masters Johann Georg Haresleben , Sebastian Regondi , Johann Paul Schilck , Elias Hügel , Johann Baptist Kral and Simon Sasslaber.

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

The brotherhood had given him Maximilian Trumler , a nephew by marriage , as an apprentice , he acquitted him in 1724 as a journeyman . Simon and Anastasia Sasslaber had no offspring, so they sold parts of their property to the young master Maximilian on May 31, 1735 on the occasion of his marriage and the birth of a son. Anastasia Sasslaber died on June 17, 1741.

Dispute between the masters Joseph Winkler and Simon Sasslaber 1725

→ Main article : "Dispute on August 4, 1725: Joseph Winkler and Simon Sasslaber" in the article Joseph Winkler (Steinmetz)

death

The epitaph of Simon Sass Laber, white Kaiserstein , was in the Kaiserstein Brucher church , now he is in private ownership.

DON'T MAKE ANYTHING OF YOU BELIEVE IT ME / SHORTLY IS THE LIFE OF MAN / I NOW HAVE GIVEN THE SPIRIT / I LIVE ON EARTH FOR 68 YEARS / IN TOTTES SCHANTS MUST BE THROWN / LIGT GE BURIED SAINT TUGENDSTERM MESTERLAM ALHIER / DIED 25TH APRIL ANNO 1740 / GOD GIVE HIM ETERNAL PEACE. AMEN.

Works

• 1710: Pottendorfer Church, with Haresleben and Franz Trumler, master builder Franz Jänggl .
• 1713–1716: Palais Daun-Kinsky on the Freyung in Vienna, with Johann Georg Haresleben .
• 1715–1728: Karlskirche in Vienna , initially with Haresleben, then Elias Hügel .
• 1717–1721: Valtice Castle , then Lower Austria, now the Czech Republic. Stone blocks prepared in the manner of stonemasons for sculptures, sculptor Giovanni Giuliani and pupil Benedict Sondermayer.
• 1720: Kaisersteinbruch Church , one of the constructors of the high altar .
• 1720–1725 Upper Belvedere stone carvings, the fountain systems with the cascade in the garden were added to the building. The masters of the brotherhood Elias Hügel, Johann Paul Schilck , Johann Baptist Kral , Simon Sasslaber, Joseph Winkler and Franz Trumler worked in comradeship .
• 1721–1723: Leopoldstadt barracks , with Eggenburg co-master Andreas Steinböck , who built the Eggenburg plague column .
• 1732–1735: House for the poor and the disabled in Vienna , Alsergrund , extension by 3 new courtyards, private foundation v. Hofkammer-Rat Freiherr Ferdinand Ignaz von Thavonat left 600,000 guilders in his will (July 7, 1726) for the poor house . Architect Franz Anton Pilgram , student of Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt . Master mason Simon Sasslaber and Franz Trumler.

Mess-Stiftung of Anastasia Sasslaberin, geb. Ferrethin, October 18, 1719

Church foundation of Anastasia of 300 guilders, for the deceased Ferreth family, for the married couple, for the honorable stonemasonry and for the St. Sebastian and Rochus brotherhood. Written in the original with gold letters.

Archival material

• Vienna City and State Archives : Steinmetzakten .
• Heiligenkreuz Abbey : Archives, church records, registers .

literature

• Helmuth Furch : In: Messages of the Museum and Culture Association Kaisersteinbruch . ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .

The masters Passerini and Sasslaber . No. 6, 1991, pp. 11-15.

The Anastasia Sasslaberin Foundation, 1719 . No. 11, 1991, pp. 15-17.

Hans Georg Haresleben, subject and master stonemason in the quarry . No. 36, 1995, pp. 10-40.

The praiseworthy place of worship Rochus and Sebastian in the imperial quarry on Leithaberg, Festschrift . No. 40, 1995, pp. 18, 51, 57.

• Johann Edler von Managetta-Lerchenau : The barracks in Leopoldstadt . In: Monthly newspaper of the Alterthumsverein zu Wien . No. 10, 1913, pp. 13ff.
• Sasslaber Simon . In: Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Vienna 1997.
• Hellmut Lorenz and Wilhelm Georg Rizzi: Johann Lucas von Hildebrandts Palace for Count Daun and Luigi A. Ronzoni: The sculptural furnishings of the Palais Daun-Kinsky . In: Palais Daun-Kinsky . Vienna-Freyung. Vienna 2001, p. 42 and p. 117/118.
• Helmuth Furch: Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch . 2 volumes. Museum and Culture Association, Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .