Ambrosius Petruzzy

Ambrosius Petruzzy (died 1652 in Kaisersteinbruch, Kingdom of Hungary) was an Italian master stonemason and baroque sculptor.

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...

The following masters were members of both the Viennese lodge and the Kaisersteinbruch brotherhood at the same time.

Thus it follow that: In March 1643, Petruzzy wrote a petition to the abbot: "...the administrator desires 20 florins in interest for my small stonepit annually, ... other subjects, who have far larger stonepits, have to pay no more than 2 florins 30 kreutzers..." The abbot decided that he would have to pay 15 reichstaler every year or to give him a nice doorframe (which amounted to half).

In October 1644, the Viennese lodge announced that master stonemason Giacomo Provino (Jacopo Provin) 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.

Forchtenstein Castle , main entrance
Forchtenstein Castle, cannonballs
Workshops in front of the Carinthia gate, picture from 1858
Michael Church