!!!Bauhütte

Building Lodge, a term designating medieval lodges uniting 
stonemasons, sculptors and structural engineers who were involved in 
the construction of large churches; the individual lodges were 
strictly organised according to their own rules; peak during the 
13%%sup th/%  and 14%%sup th/%  centuries, reorganisation attempted at 
the Regensburg assembly (Regensburger Huettentag) of 1459; The 
privileged corporation was dissolved in 1731, its customs and symbols 
were partly taken over by the Freemasons. Of great importance for 
Austrian architecture in the 14%%sup th/%  and 15%%sup th/%  centuries 
was the Building Lodge of St. Stephen´s Cathedral in Vienna, 
which influenced lower-ranking Building Lodges in Austria (e.g. in the 
towns of Admont, Salzburg, Hall in Tirol and Lienz), Upper and Lower 
Bavaria, Bohemia, Moravia, and in regions further down the River 
Danube. Members and masters of the Vienna Building Lodge (M. Chnab, H. 
Puchspaum and others) erected numerous churches, as in Pulkau, 
Eggenburg, Baden, Deutsch-Altenburg, Perchtoldsdorf, Moedling and 
Steyr.

!Literature
G. Binding, Bauhuette, Lexikon des Mittelalters, 
vol. 1, 1980; G. Brucher, Gotische Baukunst in Oesterreich, 1990.


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