In December 1640, master Francesco Maderno and his wife Maria sold their house with a garden to master Ambrosius and Lucia Petruzzy. Petruzzy had already been a member of the Brotherhood of Stonemasons for a long time, because in the same year of 1640, he led the stonemason's and bricklayer's Viertellade in the imperial stonepit. In the 1640s, the Vienna mason's lodge energetically demanded that the Kaisersteinbruch masters separate from the Wiener Neustadt guild and turn to the Viennese one, or else they would have big problems with their Viennese appointments. A letter from the Viennese master stonemason to abbot Michael Schnabel of Abbey Heiligenkreuz as the authority in March 1641 says about that: "...the Heiligenkreuz subject, Ambrosius Petruzzy, who was banished from Klosterneuburg, has now established a factory in front of the Carinthia gate...
Master in both Kaisersteinbruch and Vienna
The following masters were members of both the Viennese lodge and the Kaisersteinbruch brotherhood at the same time. In the records for November 1644, the fees for Viennese master stonemasons, as well as for journeymen, for the levy of the Neue Kayserliche Freyheiten were established: 45Kreuzer for a master, 15 Kreuzer for a journeyman. Thus it follow that:
Hans Herstorffer paid on July 31 for himself and his three journeymen - 1 Gulden 30 Kreuzer
Peter Concorz paid for himself and his seven journeymen - 2 Gulden 30 Kreuzer
Ambrosius Petruzzy paid on September 5 for himself and two journeymen - 1 Gulden 15 Kreuzer
Lease of the stonepit
In March 1643, Petruzzy wrote a petition to the abbot: "...the administratordesires 20 Gulden in interest for my small stonepit annually,... other subjects, who have far larger stonepits, have to pay no more than 2 Gulden 30 Kreuzer..." The abbot decided that he would have to pay 15 Reichstaler every year or to give him a nice doorframe.
In May 1644, the Viennese lodge decided in the conflict between the masters Ambrosius Petruzzy and Antonius Purisol, both of Kaisersteinbruch, that only master Petruzzy should remain in the stonemason works of St. Michael's Church. Henceforward, one master would not be permitted to have two works, nor would two masters be allowed in one work. In October 1644, the Viennese lodge announced that master stonemason Giacomo Provino from the Spital am Pyhrn monastery requested sending his son Andreas Provin for the next three years as an apprentice to master stonemason Ambrosius Petruzzy, citizen of Vienna. He had previously learned three and a half years from himself, but due to weakness of the body he is sure to pass away. Ambrosius Petruzzy died in 1652, leaving debts; thus the whole stonepit was handed over to his brother Domenicus Petruzzy, who paid the debts.
Works
1630-1634: Forchtenstein Castle, large commission for three Kaisersteinbruch masters, Ambrosius Petruzzy, Pietro Maino Maderno and Mathias Lorentisch. Stone for main portals, fountain, cannonballs, etc. Supplies of the prepared stone drawn in large stone carts by six oxen,
1640: Klosterneuburg,
1641: at the Carinthia Gate of the Viennese city wall,
1644: St. Michael's Church in Vienna, stonemason work, vespers image in the chapel, stairs.
Helmuth Furch, Steinmetzmeister, die in Wien und Kaisersteinbruch tätig waren, Ambrosius Petruzzy. In: Mitteilungen des Museums- und Kulturvereines Kaisersteinbruch, vol. 24, pp. 7–14, February 1993.
Max Pfister and B. Anderes, Repertorium der Tessiner Künstler. Der vergessene größte Kulturbeitrag der Schweiz an Europa, 2 volumes, 1994.
Helmuth Furch, Die Viertellade des Steinmetz- und Maurerhandwerkes im kaiserlichen Steinbruch am Leithaberg in ihrer Beziehung zur Wiener Hauptlade, 17.-18. Jh., in IV. Internationales Handwerksgeschichtliches Symposium Veszprém, 9–11 November 1994, ed. by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest/Veszprém 1995, pp. 99–102.
