Life
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...
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