Newsletter No. 38 Ruswil - March 2012
Table of Contents
Foreword 1
The monk Jodokus looked into the diary 2
Thomas Stirnimann 5
Forum 7
Miscellaneous 8
Dear relatives and acquaintances,
Dear members and friends of our family association
"Some people cut a tree when they need a toothpick". I would like to cordially welcome you all in the new year of marriage with this somewhat special saying from Unknown. When I look at current affairs in both politics and business, it seems to me that many such "trees" are being felled today. The toothpick that you actually need is a "disposable thing", barely used, it is thrown away.
Actually, the saying reflects in a simple way today's understanding of the environment, but also the understanding of our fellow human beings and ourselves in work and society. Again and again, I read and see about it in the media and wonder why we humans can not or do not want to look beyond this "toothpick tip". Ultimately, in our opinion, we will "cut down" our livelihood by dropping the last tree - a bleak prospect for the future.
But is not there a glimmer of hope? The saying only speaks of "some people". So there are still "other people". But who are these? I mean, it will be the people who handle their thoughts, words and deeds carefully with themselves, their neighbors and their habitat.
We ourselves are these people who are especially addressed as a family association and asked not to cut all the "trees" because of a "toothpick". After all, as a family association, not only the ancestors are important to us, but also their children and descendants - that is, our future generations.
No "trees" will be felled on Sunday, May 6, 2012, when our 14th Family Reunion takes place. However, there is a short-term change. For example, the Monument Preservation of the Canton of Lucerne decided, due to unexpected damage in the premises of the St. Urban Monastery, to close the festival halls until 6 May (!!) until further notice. The alternative offer to dodge in the cloister cellar was not an acceptable option for the board. For this reason, our conference also takes place in cloister rooms, but new in Werthenstein.
Currently the preparations for the conference are in full swing. In this context, I would like to thank all members of the board for the active support and cooperation.
As you will discover when reading the program, the board has planned an aperitif with technical discussions. This idea came on the basis of a suggestion at an earlier family meeting and should serve the exchange of information in the sense of family research. You are also welcome to bring your own family or research material with you. We provide tables for display.
So I am pleased to invite all of you cordially to the 14th Family Meeting, which will offer culinary as well as artistic highlights in addition to the business part.
All important information can be found in the enclosed invitation, which you received with this newsletter. Please register immediately, but at the latest by April 21, 2012. I look forward to seeing you again in Werthenstein.
With kind regards
President Beat Stirnimann
The monk Jodokus looked in the diary
(Continuation)
Father Jost Stirnimann (monastic name Jodokus, Jodok) lived from 1654-1706, of which 36 years in the monastery Muri, AG. In the years 1695-1697 he followed attentively the progress of the construction work on the today's monastery church.
The original of his diary is in the archive of the College Sarnen. In the next newsletter we publish a part of this diary. Here already the 8th episode.
On June 4, Father Ambrosius came home from Klingenberg to be a Preceptor for P. Luitfridus.
On the 5th of June, the knight of the landowning chief, Muri, Bossweil bunting, and Hermetsch and Egenweil, all here in charge of Muri, on the upper ridge, on the upper widen in front of the castle, and thereafter, in right-wing warfare, were drawn through the monastery. with flying flags, under and over, dreaming and whistling, which would be funny to watch. One has, incidentally, never been so selflessly one. but I do not know if it will go so well.
On Monday, June 20, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, the new Zurich prefect came here with his stately followers and at around 4 o'clock paid homage. He led 64 riders with them.
On the 25th of July, on the day of St. Jacob at about 8 o'clock in the evening, a terrible hail fell, which spoiled almost all crops in Langenmatt, Butwil, Gält- weil, Grütt, Huweil, Eissenbärgschweil, Windterschweil, and Beinwil. The trees too.
On October 10, our P. Carolus came back, who had been in Murbach Monastery for a year. On 12.
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On November 7, our P. Nicolaus from Engelberg came home, who had been a professor of theology there for a year. On the 9th of December, the chapter came together, in which the abbot appointed P. Carolus as the new economist. In addition to the second teacher for the lay brothers the Subprior P. Leontius. Likewise, new ceremony for the deceased P. Sebastianus P. Franciscus, had been the singing teacher. He appointed P to the singing teacher. Gregorius.
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On February 17, the chaplain and former dean of Villmergen Johannes Buocher died from Bremgarten.
On February 20, the chapter came together, and it was decided that the office of the chaplain of Villmergen, which had become vacant by the death of the aforementioned Lord and former Dean, was not to be re-occupied until the 30th day of the entombment or until Clarity about the Amt Sonnenburg prevails. Or at least until the satisfaction of the Dean in Merischwand, who had challenged the authority to seal the aforementioned deceased chaplain of our monastery. In this meeting, the majority of the chapter also requested that the Bosnian ministry be administered by the monks in the future. In this meeting N. Guomann from Bremgarten was appointed by the abbot as the new Chancellor.
On March 5, at about 12 o'clock in the morning, the venerable Lord Jodocus Sutor, the chaplain in Sursee, died in the Lord the cousin of our master surgeon Jacobus Sutor.
On the 3rd of March, our Father Meinradus resigned the professorship of theology, which he had practiced with P. Conradus for a year or more.
On March 6, the abbot called the chapter together and discussed whether or not the vacant posts should remain in reserve for the Sonnenburg affair: and it has been decided that at least the office of Sursee should now be administered. And so Mr. John Casparus Wolläb, the pastor of Bosweil, has been called to this, without immediate surrender. Further, the majority of the chapter has decided to have the Bosweiler Office administered by the monks, but the abbot decided that at this time for some reason it could not be done, especially because of the Sonnenburg affair.
On March 8, the chapter gathered, and all vacant offices were treated and distributed. Pastor of Bosweil, Johannes Casparus Wolläb from Uri, has been given the parish of St. John in Sursee. On the Bosweiler office Mr Johannes Melchior Müller has been transferred from Zug, the pastor of Hermetschwil. On the Hermetschwiler office Mr. Casparus Peregrinus Trogler has been transferred from Rotenburg, at the request and recommendation of the Apostolic Nuncio in Lucerne. The Franciscus N., the pastor in Wallen and Kämmerer, has been transferred to the vacant Kaplansstelle in Villmergen. Mr. Synesius N. from Bremgarten has been transferred to the Wallener Amt, the Coadiutor of Mr. Matthias Honeger, the pastor of Villmärgen.
On the 10th of March, the chapter reassembled and handed over the mentioned office of Hermetschwil to the aforementioned Mr. Trochsler, because he had not appeared with the other candidates on March 8th.
On the 6th of March the ciborium was stolen in Ruswil with a rifle, so that it is necessary to be careful in that also holy-holy-goods. In both of them, two hundred consecrated hosts were said to have been stolen, and also stolen.
Of these consecrated hosts, much of them have been recovered in a public square, but most of them have been crumbled into small pieces, and, what is terrible, one is already seen with cattle, ross, and dare before they are found. After they have been found, they have been taken with crutches and fannies with the clerisij, and should be so worthy of all the people, and picked up as well as they could be. This deplorable incident occurred under the pastor and dean Johannes Fridelinus Lindacher.
On March 20, the Holy of Holies was stolen and stolen at night in Büntzen, with a small ciborium and a goblet, which was also in the tabernacle due to the preceding Palm Sunday. There were about 70 consecrated hosts in both, not one of which was later found. The thieves came in and fled through a window in the choir.
This terrible incident occurred under the priest P. Bonaventura Schreiber.
On the 6th of April three goblets from the sacristy were stolen in Hochdorff, as well as many more, which I do not know.
On the night of May 1, the parish church in Muri was broken into. Except two silk veils, however, nothing was stolen, because everything that was silver or gold was locked away in the silverberglin in the moor with a staring Eissenen thürlin.
On the 11th of May, at the Convention, we received new gilded cups, for which we returned the abbot our old silver, not gilded.
On May 8, the new abbess of Hermetschwil was here for the first time, Maria Anna N. from Glarus. With her came Maria Ursula, at that time scribe, and Maria Scholastica. The Abbot, the Prior, Fr. Leodiarius, Fr. Maurus, Fr. Anselmus, the Pastor in Boswil, the Pastor in Hermetschwil, the Economist, the Archimagirus, the Chancellor, Mrs. Elisabeth from the Hospice, and I dined with them in the House of women for lunch. She returned the same day.
On the evening of May 13, the Abbot of St. Blaise came home on his way home from his pilgrimage to Einsiedeln, the day before Pentecost. on the following Monday we dined at the convent, also with the Lord Abbot of Wettingen. Around 2 o'clock on May 15, he left our monastery, as did the Abbot of Wettingen, who left for his Wettinger monastery around 8 o'clock in the morning.
On May 27, the Saturday before Corpus Christi, Fr. Bonaventura and Fr. Ambrosius set off for Pfäfers for a cure.
On May 26, the Subprior and P. Romanus began to drink the medicinal water from Kretzhoff.
On June 1, around noon, I made myself with the abbot on the way to the spa of Pfäfers. At about 11am that day, we arrived from Thalwil over Lake Zurich. On the second day we came to Ragaz around 7 o'clock in the evening, where we spent the night.
On the 3rd of June we reached the spa around 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning and started our treatment by drinking the medicinal water. The abbot drank only, but I drank and bathed.
On the 5th of June, on the day of St. Boniface, we congratulated Abbot von Pfäfers on his name-day, but he adored two bottles of wine, with a half-grown lamb.
On June 3, Mr. Gregorius Dolicker from Lucerne, then Vestiarius, died at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
On June 11, the Most Highly Prince-Bishop of Augsburg came to the spa of Pfäfers, one son was de Prince of Neuewenburg, and a brother of the Keisserin: he has served with himself, a Jesu his confessor, a secular priest, his capellan , also two troopers. He only trunks Badwasser, but for 21 days, and so he travels down the other day of July, on a Sunday when we are also away.
On the 18th, our abbot returned home from the Pfäfers spa around 7 o'clock in the morning
On the 2nd of July we left the spa of Pfäfers to return home. Around 6 o'clock in the morning, after we had celebrated Mass and drank the medicinal water, we left for Pfäfers monastery.
On the 3rd of July we had lunch in the auditorium, dinner at the convent. The following morning we went to Sargans to see Mr. Casparus Meyer from Lucerne, at that time on the train to the Meylanic area, but on that day with his official and other good reasons, but sincerely with the PP. Capucinis at Meltz in the Capucin Monastery, whereupon we were also invited yesterday with her and other invited guests, when it was not far and at the PP. Capucinis that at noon entpfangen, it was also the P. Provintzial self Aldorten: which also with us, after lunch we rode to Walenstadt, where we stayed overnight. The following day we came to Lachen, where we also stayed overnight. On Wednesday morning we rode to Einsiedeln Abbey in the morning, arrived at 9 o'clock in the evening and spent the night there.
On the following 6th of July we took lunch at the convent and continued to train and stayed at the Inn at the Crowns. The next day we had lunch with the monks and we left home. On the same day that we left the spa of Pfäfers, the aforementioned Bishop of Augsburg also left, but in the afternoon, that is, on the day of the Visitation of Mary, which fell on a Sunday.
On this seventh Sunday after Pentecost, on the day of the Visitation of Mary, the apostolic nuncio from Lucerne came to Muri and consecrated the chapel of our abbot. He also consecrated our Father Henricus to the priest extra temporal, at the request of his mother.
On the 23rd, the 10th Sunday after Pentecost, our Fr. Henricus celebrated his first mass.
On Saturday, August 12, the new Chancellor took his oath in the Hypocausus of the Convention in the presence of the chapter after the first Mass. The former, however, solemnly resigned his office.
On the 13th of August, the 13th Sunday after Pentecost, the old gentleman Cantzler Weissenbach gave his last and all the priests have to be hoped in the great sahl the fratres and brothers in the convent. The next morning he took leave and returned to Zug in his house.
On September 26, the exequations of all the soldiers and parishioners of Muri who died in Morea *** were celebrated in the parish church of Muri.
On the 1st of October, on the day of the Holy Rosary, two Masses were celebrated on one day, namely by P. Philip and by P. Placidus from the monastery of S. Trudpert, who are here in exile.
On November 27, the contract with the Bishop of Constance over our pastorate of Hohenburg expired.
On November 23, our Fr. Ambrosius became assistant to the sick pastor of Bosweil, and Fr. Josephus replaced him as schoolmaster.
On the 6th of December, at about 11 o'clock in the evening or at night, on the day of St. Nicholas: on the 8th of December, on the day of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, said pastor of Bosweil, Mr. Melchior Marianus Müller from Zug, in the choir of Church buried.
On the 9th of December, the chapter came together and decided not to leave the vacant Bosweiler office to a secular until the Sonnenburg affair had been settled. Father Ambrosius, the deceased pastor's co-ordinator, was to administer the parish in the meantime.
On December 11, the convent lady of the monastery of Rothausen Maria Catharina Euphrosyna Wüastin wrote to me. She asked me in her letter to accept her as a spiritual sister, and I consented.
On the 27th of December, on the day of St. John the Evangelist, around 8 o'clock in the evening, our lay brother Thomas Scherer from Feldkirch died in the Lord, and on the following day, the day of the Holy Innocents, he was buried after the party in the afternoon Service.
On January 8, Fr. Joachim, who had been a chef for another year, has been turned off to teach some school boys in syntax and other studies. He was succeeded by P. Victor, who was also Granarius. But only as a representative of the archival virus.
On the 24th of January, at about 9 o'clock in the morning, Father Leodigarius Holdermayer, our senior from Lucerne, died in the Lord during a high Mass, and at the same time the honorable family Holdermayer died because he was the last person of this tribe. On the following day of the conversion of St. Paul, he was buried in the morning.
On the 31st of January the convent read a holy bull from Rome at table and afterwards hung it up in the usual public place with the plaques. This bull has been sent all over the world to all believing Christians for all the priests around the world, both secular and spiritual, *** should read this bull Unum Sacrum, according to the will of the pope, for the reward of perfect forgiveness, both secular and spiritual men and women. If they wanted to obtain the mentioned forgiveness, they should confess and communicate for themselves or for the dead.
On the 12th of February a servant from Klingenberg wrote a letter about the confirmation of the contract we have with the Bishop of Constance for another 30 years because of the office of our brothers in Sonnenburg.
On February 1, the Most Holy Mr. Pope Alexander VIII died in the Lord, a Venetian, who had been called before the pontificate Peter Ottobonus.
On March 5, the chapter came together and discussed whether the pastoral office of Bosweil was to be filled again with a secular priest, because the Concordat over the Sonnenburg office assured us, even if it had not yet been handed over. It has been decided that the Bosweiler Office will not be awarded until the Concordat is handed over and sealed. Hereupon Mr. Johannes Casparus Wolläb, one of our vicars in Sursee, again his claim to this, and it has been decided that the office should be transferred to him in due course, for certain reasons.
sequel follows
Thomas Stirnimann
From apprentice to director
Thomas Stirnimann is a true-bred city ruler, as his grandfather, who led a bicycle business in circle 4. Thomas Stirnimann, who turns 50 in April, grew up and attended schools in Dietlikon, where he also rented his first apartment. He graduated in 1978 a KV apprenticeship at Kuoni, then the RS. He always lived in the Glatt Valley, sometimes in Dubendorf, then Bassersdorf; In 1994 he married and since 2001 he lives in Ruschlikon with his wife and his two daughters, who attend today the canton school.
Thomas Stirnimann, CEO of the Hotelplan Suisse group of companies, knows what he's talking about when it comes to the big world of travel: he learned his trade from the ground up as a KV apprentice and worked his way up to the management floor. An interesting career path on which he - exactly: very much travels.
Except for a brief break of two years, Thomas Stirnimann worked for Kuoni for around 25 years - until 2006. "It was a very good time, I was able to go through all the departments professionally and got an excellent insight into the world of tourism," he recalls. These included: international travel business, business travel, tourism business, resale (retail), production, purchasing. "These were wonderful times," he says, who at the end was responsible for Kuoni Switzerland, Scandinavia and Greece.
"I still love Greece, even though the state has big problems at the moment. It's a wonderful country, with really great people. Above all, I like the many islands - where sometimes I feel like I'm in paradise, “ says Stirnimann. In short: Greece is one of the most beautiful spots on earth for him.
In 2006 he left Kuoni because he was able to fulfill a great professional aspiration. He became a partner and partner in Travel House, where the founder offered him the opportunity to become his successor. "It's a different story if you're not just an employee, but is independent and can live it out,” Thomas Stirnimann looks back with satisfaction.
Then what happened in today's world of business is not unusual: Travel House was taken over by Hotelplan. Stirnimann: "Timing was a bit unhappy for me, but it was a very good step for the company." That's just how the travel industry is - very unstable and exposed to many influences.
As an example, he mentions the past year, when not only from the perspective of the travel industry has happened enormously. The keywords: Arab spring, also in the important destinations Egypt and Tunisia. The big catastrophe in Fukushima, Japan, which devastated almost all East Asian travel. Then followed in the popular destination of Australia, the great flood, then broke out in Libya, the revolution. "Thus, for many travelers, the whole Mediterranean region was a war zone, where nobody wanted more - not even on cruises," Thomas Stirnimann sums up the tragic development. So one crisis chased the next. And then, with the euro and financial crisis, the worst scenario ever hit - in the middle of summer, the peak holiday season.
Shopping tourism is one thing, but thanks to the internet you can also book your trips conveniently from the comfort of your own computer. “For this period we were simply no longer competitive with our budgeted prices, because the foreign providers could 20 to 30 percent offer discount”, annoys Thomas Stirnimann about the temporary slump in competitiveness. That had changed but long ago. The new catalogs are on the market with new prices. "Now we are absolutely competitive again. But the damage has been done for the past year”, regrets the CEO. And the prospects in many countries are still uncertain. “In the travel industry, however, one has to think and plan optimistically, although the general conditions can change from one day to the next. It's a constant up and down,” explains Thomas Stirnimann.
That was a big challenge - not so much for him, but rather for the approximately 1,000 employees at Hotelplan Suisse. “What was yesterday is not today. And most people do not like having to keep changing things. Especially when things are so rushed. It takes a lot of persuasion and explanations from the staff to keep people on board and motivated. This is not always possible, but often. And that makes me proud, too, when I see people pulling along and recognizing the problems.”
And what else are the duties of a CEO? Thomas Stirnimann names two main aspects. "Firstly, it's about the overall responsibility for the further development of the company. Strategy, basic orientation, focus on product development. This is discussed and defined in the management, which is not always easy.”
And secondly, it's all about people: "The travel industry is a people business, we are people-driven, we need direct contact with customers, hoteliers, agencies and many service providers," says Stirnimann. He personally knows the most important representatives as well as the contact with the employees. "I explain to them our strategy, the goals and get them in this wave of our business development," explains Thomas Stirnimann. In the past 18 months, for example, he has decided to visit all 122 branches throughout Switzerland. That's 122. He had not personally visited five of them at the end of last year. "This effort is worth it, because it is very much appreciated. I hear and see a lot on site and find out what's happening right on the customer front,” he explains. This openness is also evident at the headquarters in Glattbrugg: it is a bright, transparent glass construction with a high, light-flooded entrée and a holiday-like furnished lounge. The office doors are open, the glass windows give an insight into the rooms. "Not everyone likes that, but there is proximity, the employees and the boss are tangible, and this simplifies everyday business life," explains Thomas Stirnimann. Short ways for quick decisions - that is the advantage and creates confidence. He learned this from the grand seigneur of the Swiss travel industry, the 2003 deceased donor Jack Bolli.
The group led by Thomas Stirnimann is called Hotelplan Suisse - MT CH is the abbreviation for the corporation. It includes the following brands: Travel House, Globus Reisen, Hotelplan as main offices Denner Reisen, Migros Holidays and Business Travel BTA First Travel AG in Steinhauses. Hotelplan is also active in Italy, England and Russia. Interhotel - holiday rental agency throughout Europe, is also included.
This multiple strategy is used to optimally cover the most diverse needs and market segments. Be it at the counter with the advice or Internet for easy-to-book package deals. "This works very well and is also used heavily, because you can do it around the clock on the weekend or in the evening," explains Thomas Stirnimann. "The technical development is galloping in this area at a high speed:" Where the way leads and when the rapid development weakens, but it is difficult to estimate.
In the beginning, the Internet was seen as a great danger. But in the meantime, this has turned out to be a great opportunity for us providers, as Thomas Stirnimann knows. Certain activities are dying because of the Internet - such as the travel buyers. "I did that too," he says. "For months in North America - USA, Canada - travel around, visit the providers personally and conclude new contracts after reconnecting back with a briefcase paper then you make the catalog." Today, this is done on the computer, the prices change sometimes hourly, "that's huge jumble,” says Thomas Stirnimann.
Roland Stirnimann
"Surseer week”
The Genealogist
Herr Kreitlein retired years ago at the age of sixty-five; out of boredom he soon turned around to a hobby. In doing so he somehow got to his ancestral gallery. That was really interesting, something completely new, unknown, and he decided at once to put on a pedigree.
He rummaged in city archives, in chronicles, in old letters; took the thick church books with some village pastor and penetrated on the occasion far, far into the past.
He found two tailors, one innkeeper, four peasants, one swineherd, one sexton each, miller, baker, three blacksmiths, a slate-maker, then a princely lackey, a postilion was also present, an ancestor was even a minister, two others lived as masters. Then there were a few grenadiers, two musicians, two barbers, three butchers, and in blind zeal he found a scissors grinder. It was a tree with many branches, not to mention byways.
Mr. Kreitlein needed a lot of paper, a lot of ink and patience for it. He came to fifteen hundred, but then it seemed to be over, for all the springs were dying, there was no ancestor to be found. On the way up, Herr Kreitlein got on the train that took him to far-away Hamburg to Doctor Dusterwald, who was considered a specialist. He asked him in moving words to locate the pedigree root post, or the man with whom the series once began.
The doctor smiled jovially: "Dearest, now go to our world-famous zoo, right at the beginning, department two." Mr. Kreitlein thought this strange, but because he was already in Hamburg, he went to Hagenbeck the same day, he was struck by the blow! There was a monkey sitting in his cage-villa, a gorilla, he looked sad and bewildered into our twentieth century, caught lice and devoured bananas. Mr. Kreitlein does not search for ancestors anymore.