Bartholomäus Khöll
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Bartholomäus Khöll (1614 – 20 February 1664 in Vienna) was an imperial master stonemason and 1653 superintendent of the Vienna Bauhütte (mason's guild).
Bartholomäus married into a family of stonemasons. His wife was Christine Ungerin, who was the daughter of Simon Unger, who oversaw the maintenance of St. Stephen's Cathedral. Bartholomäus became a master stonemason on 26 September 1650, even though his lack of masterworks led to him paying a fine in Reichsthaler.
He received citizenship from Vienna in July 1651, but there is not any information about his origins. His tax payments between 1652 and 1664 register him as a renter in central Vienna and as a middle income master craftsman.
On 22 December 1652 he was elected master of his Zunft's Rathaus.
His wife Christine died on 21 July 1661 at the age of 29. In her will and testament, she bequeathed her three children, David, Maria, and the one-year-old Micheal 150 Guilder. One of her testament witnesses was Adam Haresleben, who was the stonemason responsible for Vienna's cathedrals at the time.
Master Bartholomäus Khöll had remarried and wrote his will and testament on 19 February 1664. He died a few days later at the age of 50. His widow married the master stonemason Urab Illmayr, who took over Khöll's position as leader of the Vienna Bauhütte. The three children from his first marriage had become orphans, but they subsisted from the inheritance given by their parents.
