Steinmetzmuseum Kaisersteinbruch

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The Steinmetzmuseum Kaisersteinbruch in Bruckneudorf was founded on June 24, 1990 by Helmuth Furch , Viennese state teacher and chairman of the local museum and cultural association . The Kaisersteinbrucher , who were forcibly resettled in 1939 , thus received a center, and with their intellectual and material contributions, this private initiative could be dared. Quotation from Mrs. Johanna Markowitsch , guest book from October 6, 1990: Since there was a museum in Kaisersteinbruch, I have a home here again! Thanks for that!

history

The large community of Bruckneudorf provided a room for the former two-class school. The exhibition in this classroom with school desks from the 1920s (some with a sunk inkwell ) initially included holdings that had come together over years of collector and research activity.

The opening ceremony was carried out by Governor Hans Sipötz , Mayor Franz Schmitzhofer and local councilors, master stonemason Friedrich Opferkuh , Prelate Josef Rittsteuer for the Eisenstadt diocese , Msgr. Josef Wallner, ORF cultural editor Hans Rochelt and his team, the painter Franz Rauscher and for the military Karin Schuster . The artist had painted a series of pictures from Kaisersteinbruch and helped design the festschrift.

  • Kaisersteinbruch around 1900, quarries

  • Guests of honor of the 400 year celebration, see above.

  • Entrance, desk with two fonts.

  • Photos of the "Alt-Kaisersteinbrucher".

  • Historical photos of the destroyed church

  • Editor Hans Rochelt with his team .

  • Map collection from 1590: Kaysl. Quarry and the small lapidary

  • Small lapidary

  • Service with Alexandru , Exler , Ferenc , standing Alfred Furch.

  • HWO 1650, stonemason saint

  • Technical literature and photo albums

  • Steinmetzmuseum Kapitell, Map Collection.JPG
For centuries people lived here on stone, he gave them bread.

Permanent collection

Lesson from 1844

The museum is on the one hand a research center as well as a documentation and image archive of the local stonemasonry, and on the other hand of the prisoner of war camp Stalag XVII A during the Second World War and the subsequent Soviet occupation in Kaisersteinbruch. A coin collection from the area of ​​the former Roman villa that dates back to the 1st century BC (assessed by the archaeologist Heinrich Zabehlicky), a map collection - from 1590, with the first mentions of the Imperial Quarry .

In the center a lapidarium with quotations from St. Stephan , on loan from the Wiener Dombauhütte , a finial from the northern Heidenturm (three-sided) with traces of fire, 2nd half of the 19th century, made of St. Margarethen sand-lime brick , a pinned pinnacle with crabs , sintered , from the northern Heidenturm, 15th century, made of Leithak limestone. Detail of a destroyed altar of the Kaisersteinbrucher Church made from Breitenbrunn sand-lime brick .

Kaiserstein from the Neugebuilding Palace , Schönbrunn Palace , Albertina - Hofburg , wedding fountain , stone patterns from the quarries (master sacrificial cow ), stone cutting tools (Fritz Koresch), photo albums and a guest book as evidence of local and international visitors.

The Kaisersteinbruch stonemason craft becomes the center of the Leithagebirge

In 1617 the Kaisersteinbruch masters became a quarter drawer of the Wiener Neustädter Bauhütte with their own copy of the “Freedom of Crafts” . The craft regulations under Emperor Ferdinand III were very artistic . with a painted picture of the guild flag. The ennobled court sculptor Pietro Maino Maderno and his younger co-master Ambrosius Regondi strove for these imperial freedoms with Count Otto Felician von Heissenstein, regent of the Lower Austrian lands.

The sphere of activity of the Kaisersteinbruch guild in 1649 included the “ market towns ” of the rule Scharfenegg, Sommerein , Mannersdorf , Hof and Au , furthermore Maria Loretto , Winden , Jois and Kaisersteinbruch itself.

This means that every trade in the guild, such as "Aufdingung" (admission of apprentices), "acquittal" (acquitting the journeyman), etc., was held in front of an open drawer in Kaisersteinbruch. This "hands-free book for stonemasons and masons in Kaisersteinbruch" documents the actual importance of this craft.

Copies of the craft regulations can be studied in the museum.

Training letter for Georg Koppitsch 1844

The stonemason museum acquired in 1997 an original document of the independent Kaisersteinbruch stonemason craft, a confirmation of the apprenticeship certificate from 1844 issued in 1853 , with signatures and a large seal of the honorable craft of the stonemasons and masons here.

We NN Zechmeister and a whole ehrsames craft of stonemasonry and master mason in the pen heiligenkreuzerischen place = quarry at Leythaberg profess virtue of this teaching letter, after the honorable George Koppitsch of Neusiedl am See bey Mr. George Abbot to Kaisersteinbruch on June 2, 1839 with an open charge on the Steinmetz craft to learn five years up applications and on June 9, 1844 acquitted been completely ausgelernet even in this time ... so should his what has been guarantor , the honest journeyman Joseph Buchinger and Joseph Madle, their paid guarantee sake quits , free and to be rid of ... current apprenticeship letter on June 5, 1653 confirmed with our larger handicraft seal attached .

Johann Krasny , headmaster
Michel Weidbacher, subordinate

The comparison of the place names should be noted here: The rulers ordered “Heiligenkreuzer Ort - Steinbruch am Leithaberg” , the masters added “Kaisersteinbruch” to the text.

The everyday life of a stonemason

Stonemasonry

At the beginning of the century (around 1900) the "forest quarry " , a so-called "Roman quarry" , presented the following picture: a simple wooden hut with a large gate and windows with small glass panes, in front of which a so-called spray grille was hung to catch stone fragments. About 4 to 5 people worked here. The work pieces stood on blocks approx. 60 cm high and 120 cm long, "benched" , as it is called in the language of the stonemasons. The tools that you needed during a day were placed on a separate board so that they were always at hand. The grindstone (a quartz sandstone measuring approx. 60 × 20 × 20 cm) was essential , as you can only work optimally with regularly sharpened irons.

Guild language

In front of the hut stood the stonemason with which the as yet uncut stone blocks were benched . Help is needed with this difficult activity. The stonemason goes into the hut and shouts: "Karl, Josef, the gentlemen are addressed." A few stonemasons interrupt their work and help. With a lot of jolt it is hoisted up with a rod as a lever, brought into the correct position and set up in the workshop. The gentlemen are thanked , the rhythmic hammering and knocking can be heard again.

Before one side of a stone was finished, you had to turn it over, with large ones the stonemason gave the commands : "We knock it over, put a drill, turn it and place it in line."

dress

The stonemason wore blue trousers and a blouse, an apron that was also blue and almost reached his ankles, and a gilet with a pocket watch . A paper hood was worn as headgear to protect the hair from the stone dust.

It was one of the first things the old journeyman showed an apprentice how to fold such a hood. These old journeyman were characterized by a special calm and security in their work. Every blow with the chisel was right, especially with dense imperial stone and marble , which were more difficult to work.

The tool is fetched from the blacksmith who has his workshop up near the forest. A stonemason should always get on well with a blacksmith; the tool is too important to be able to leave its quality to chance.

Masonry tools

The beater (also Fäustel ) directs the force of the blow to the impact tool further. If heavy embossing work has to be done, the mallet must be very heavy. It has to be playful in the hand; a sensitive stonemason will either re- cut each new device or adjust the existing one so that it fits in the hand as best as possible. In earlier times it was made of soft iron . Pointed and wide iron needs for some work you can bounce a short iron, a long iron or feathers. The width iron is intended for shaping straight or curved surfaces. This iron is the true yardstick of the expert, through whose hand masterful work is created.

Wooden model

See also

Wooden model of Neugebuilding Castle

For the exhibition “ Princely Courts of the Renaissance ” in 1990 in the Kunsthistorisches Museum , Neue Burg , the architect Manfred Wehdorn had made a wooden model of the new building . Significant parts of it were made available to the museum as a temporary loan in 1993, as the beginnings of the Kaisersteinbruch stonemasonry are closely related to the construction of the new building.

End of the "Furch Collection"

Chairman Helmuth Furch resigned from his function as an association in 2007 and continued to look after the museum, its collection, so to speak. The Koenigshofer coin collection has been refurbished as a museum, some showpieces could still be acquired in the Dorotheum , old map, Corinthian capital , a small library.

Reopening of the Kaisersteinbruch Museum

The mayor Gerhard Dreiszker and chairwoman Martina Watzek invite you to the reopening of the Kaisersteinbruch Museum on September 24, 2014 at 7 p.m.

The repositioning of the collection will lead through 400 years of European cultural history and present a fund of mixed objects.

Web links

Commons : Steinmetzmuseum Kaisersteinbruch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PANNONISCHE Neusiedl / See May 2, 2013, page 12, Bruckneudorf / Kaisersteinbruch: Big topic STONE ... The furnishings, especially the hanging of the card collection of the big old photos, almost all of them in Mosonmagyaróvár (still in communist times) as small pictures were photographed and then enlarged, mainly by father and son Alfred and Helmuth Furch. The precious little lapidary came from master sacrificial cow .
  2. ↑ City Archives Wiener Neustadt , Steinmetzakten, Meisterbuch 1617
  3. ^ Stadtarchiv Wiener Neustadt, H 109/1, letter from the local judge Andre Ruffini on May 11, 1644 to the Neustadt masters
  4. ↑ National Archives Burgenland : guild files, "hands-free carrying of masons and Maurer in quarry " A / VI-1l, Fasc. 1/2. Inscribed on the cover with “from 1764”, actually from 1791
  5. ^ Friedrich sacrificial cow: The everyday life of a stonemason, memories, anecdotes, reports . In: Communications of the Kaisersteinbruch Museum and Culture Association, 9th year, No. 50, June 1998. ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
  6. ^ Friedrich sacrificial cow: Forming the stone and tools from antiquity to today. Mannersdorf 1993, typewritten copy in the stonemason museum.
  7. ^ Invitation from the large community of Bruckneudorf