6017 Ruswil - April/May 1979 No.5
Dear relatives and cousins
Dear members and friends of our family association
After we have already passed the threshold of 1979, one is inclined to look forward and backward. Dear association members passed away forever, on the other hand, a number of association members were able to enjoy the birth of a child. If we also pay attention to the marriages and professional successes of the young association members, we become aware that we can feel like a big family that has grown further in the past year. The number of members is slowly approaching the 200 limit. Our Board of Management can therefore look back on a successful year. We continue to strive to consolidate the association and gain new members. We thank you all for your loyalty and your advertising.
In the past year, the Board of Directors met twice. Since the Stirnimann (at that time not yet an association) met for the first time in Rüediswil in 1970, it was decided to hold another meeting in 1980 as a small ten-year anniversary. The board hopes that you will make suggestions as to how and where it will be carried out. As you can see, this circular is not only accompanied by a payment slip, but also as a service, as it were, as a member and branch directory of the association of the Stirnimann families. We have deliberately written the self-employed in larger posters. Perhaps one or the other can decide to do a business with one of our association members. Despite great effort, however, it is possible that a trader from our association is not listed in the poster. If this is the case, I ask the members concerned to notify me immediately and to apologize for the mistake. The intention is to renew this directory in two years.
The board of directors is pleased to note that not only did the members promptly pay their dues last year, but that again many voluntarily increased their dues to 15 or more francs, which we would like to thank.
In connection with the next payment, the board has one more request. Changes of address should be reported to the cashier as soon as possible. This makes his work easier. The board congratulates association members who can celebrate their 70th birthday or even higher with a small gift. But so that nobody is forgotten, we would be happy if you could give us your birth date, first name and possibly the occupation on the back of the payment slip.
I would also like to mention that the whole board works on a voluntary basis and with the best of consent.
In this newsletter you can read an article about the Stirnimann of Ohmstal. I would like to acknowledge that numerous members of the Ohmstal branch have belonged to our association from the beginning. Anton Stirnimann-Schöb, Lucerne, has even been our prudent cashier since the company was founded. Our tireless researcher Prof. Josef Stirnimann deserves our sincere thanks for this new contribution to family history.
This is followed by an article about the Zurich city councilor and national councilor Erwin Stirnemann, who came from Gränichen and was well known at the time. His son, forest engineer ETH, Roland J. Stirnemann, who has lived in Piandera in Ticino for several years, wrote it. We thank our Aargau namesake for this original view of life and hope that more families from Aargau will join us. In addition to Roland J. Stirnemann, who is a member of our extended board, his cousins Othmar Stirnemann, factory owner in Sempach, and Rolf Stirnemann, hairdresser, Lucerne, have been members of our family association from the start.
With kind regards
The President: Josef Stirnimann
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It is not the state, not the school, not any other foundation of life, but the house. It is not the rulers who rule the country, it is not the teachers who make up life, but house fathers and house mothers do it. The main thing is not public life in a country, but domestic life. Life is the root of everything, and depending on the root, the other takes shape.
Jeremias Gotthelf
The family is a stream in which we are embedded, a chain whose rings we form. To want to grasp the family only on its horizontal level, only from the point of view of the temporal present, of a single generation, would be an undertaking contrary to nature. In the family, the dead also have their right to vote, because basically they did not die, but live on in us and our children. That is why it is my deepest need to know who and what my grandfathers and grandmothers, who and what all my ancestors were. For I am blood from their blood, flesh from their flesh, spirit from their spirit. We all carry within us a mysterious legacy that comes from the groundwater from which our first parents nourished and from which we came into life through the mediation of a long series of generations. All of these generations have contributed to this legacy.
Philipp Etter
The Stirnimann family from Ohmstal
Like the Stirnimann of Neuenkirch, of whom we spoke in the 3rd circular, our cousins in Ohmstal in the Willisau office developed into a considerable branch of our family in the course of the 19th century. However, while several families of the descendants of the progenitor of the Neuenkirch branch have remained settled in Neuenkirch to this day, the Stirnimann of Ohmstal families have left their home with the exception of two families. Scattered all over Central Switzerland, most of them have retained the citizenship of Ohmstal and many maintain pleasant contacts with one another. In the following, the ancestry of the Ohmstal branch from the Ruswil family is to be demonstrated and its most important residences and lines are shown. The following symbols and abbreviations are used:
* means before 1834: baptized, after 1834: born
= married to Juch. = Jucharte (n) G1 = guilder
if there are several first names, the first name is underlined
As can be seen from the family tables I and V of our chronicle "The Stirnimann family in the cantons of Lucerne and Aargau", Sebastian Stirnimann-Helfenstein (t1679) is the next common progenitor of all bearers of our name who are now based in Ruswil, Neuenkirch and Ohmstal. What we know about him can be read in the aforementioned chronicle, page 33. The following references are of interest here: Sebastian came from Roth, where the family had been settled since around 1610, after the death of his father Hans Jakob (t1670) he took over the Etzenerlen farm, which the family had recently owned by his uncle Peter Stirnimann (m. Maria Süess), who died in 1668 without descendants, to inherit. Peter Stirnimann moved to Etzenerlen in 1624. It is therefore 355 years since the farms in Etzenerlen were built by members of our family. Sebastian was married twice, since 1655 with Maria Helfenstein of Neuenkirch, since 1673 with Rosina Wüest of Ruswil. From the first marriage came the eldest son Peter (1660-1709), the later official wife, from the second the 16 years younger Walter (1676-1735), usually called Walthart. The two stepbrothers shared their father's court in 1684, to which 231.5 Juch. Land and 24 Juch.. forest, that is almost all of today's Etzenerlen, belonged. Peter (m. Anna Brunner) took over what is now Rear-Etzenerlen with a total of 115 Juch. Land and 9,55 Juch. Forest, plus the "new house", which was later extended to a twin house and burned down in 1925. Walter took over today's Middle-Etzenerlen and probably the larger part of Front-Etzenerlen, in total 116.5 Juch. Land and 16.25 Juch. Forest, plus two older houses; Of these, the ancient house (Hafner and Siegenthaler) still stands in Middle-Etzenerlen, the other one may have been in Front-Etzenerlen and burned down in 1873. Peter paid Walter 100 Gl for his new barn and promised him 80 GI and three quarters of forest in Weisstannenwald at the expense of his wedding.
Walter, one of the ancestors of the Ohmstal family, was, like his father, a jury member, i.e. a member of the court, and a long-time official father, i.e. a poor man. In 1696 he married Magdalena Marbach of Krummbach, who gave him four sons and five daughters. The Marbach were a respected and well-to-do farming family, they donated the still existing splendid chapel in Krummbach. Walter's second marriage to Elisabeth Erni remained childless. Only two of his four sons grew up: Adam (* 1699, t1763, m. 1. Barb. Wolf, 03 II. Barb. Ziswiler) and Joseph (* February 17, 1719, t February 28, 1766, m. 1743 Anna Maria Grossmann). Adam stayed on his father's farm and in 1738 "bought his beloved brother Joseph Stirnimann from everything that they had inherited from their father Walter Stirnimann and mother Magdalena Marbacher". Joseph received the best bed with two suits, the best kessi, his chest and 1900 Gl. Joseph, over which the line of the Ohmstal branch leads, acquired the Sässhof "bei der Linden" on the highest elevation of the Ruswil mountain, which is today's Linde or Lindenhof of the Albisser family. At that time the farm comprised 90 Juch. Land and 5 pieces of forest in the Säliwald (information from a valid letter from 1744). His marriage to Anna Maria Grossmann was blessed with ten children:
Maria Barbara, * April 21, 1744, d. Ettiswil September 17, 1803, m.
Johann Adam, * December 24th, 1745, d.Gunzwil (Rüschen) March 3rd, 1787, m. 1778 Klementia Schüpfer
Joseph, * March 8th, 1748, d.
Anna Maria, * July 16th, 1749, d. Ettiswil March 24th, 1820
Anna Maria Elisabeth, * 5.6.1751, d.
Adam, * March 12th, 1753, d. 0hmstal April 15th, 1822, m. 1786 Maria Anna Grüter
Joseph Johann Adam, * March 20th, 1755, d. Gunzwil April 2nd, 1809, m. 1787 Elis. Muri Maria Barbara, * October 29th, 1756, d. Ruswil (Sigigen) March 3rd, 1828
Anna Maria Magdalena, * December 19th, 1758
Anna Maria Veronika (called Verena), * August 26th, 1765, d. Beromünster April 28th, 1849
Of the four sons, Adam (m. Maria Anna Grüter) is the founder of the Ohmstal line. We follow him on his way, which led him from Lindenhof over the Ey near Werthenstein to Gunzwil (St. Stephan parish, Beromünster) and finally to Ohmstal. In 1781 Adam acquired half of the share of the dormitory in the Ey, which then belonged to two owners, for 1713 Gl; the same is below the Höchweid, on the left of the cantonal road when you drive from Wohlhusen to Werthenstein (current owner: Hans Steiner). On February 6, 1786 Adam Stirnimann led Maria Anna Grüter of Wolhusen to the altar, the following year he sold his share in the Ey for 2730 Gl. The young couple moved to Gunzwil, where they settled in the Rüschen. Ten children were born here between 1787 and 1800:
Anna Maria Elisabeth Kunigunde, * 4.6.1787, d. Ettiswil 26.4.1832 a girl, baptized by the midwife, d. 31.12.1788
Anna Maria Clementia, * January 13th, 1790, d. June 28th, 1798
Anna Maria Elisabeth Verena, * February 24th, 1792, dated June 28th, 1798
Johann Georg, * 23.4.1793, d. Ebersecken 17.5.1837, m. I. Sursee 1829
Maria Blum, m. II. St. Urban 1836 Franziska Brunner
Joseph Anton, born November 17, 1794, d. Ettiswil (Riedbrugg) June 28, 1868, m. 1. Sursee 1823 Anna Maria Frey, m., II. St. Urban 1836 Maria Josepha Kneubühler
Kaspar Stephan, * May 19, 1796, d.
Anna Maria Clementia, * January 31, 1798, d.
Anna Maria Verena, * July 21, 1799, d.
Anna Maria Elisabeth Clementia, * December 2nd, 1800
With Adam Stirnimann-Grüter, his mother Anna Maria Grossmann and his two brothers Johann (m. Clementia Schüpfer) and Joseph (m. Elisabeth Muri) also moved to Gunzwil. Johann also lived in the Rüschen. Between 1800 and 1804 Adam and Joseph bought a farm of 41 Juch in Obern Blasenberg. Land and 3 Juch. Forest (purchase letter cannot be found so far). In 1804 Joseph moved to the Schlössli home in Gunzwil, which he acquired from Jakob Bühlmann von Ruswil for 800 Gl.
On February 1, 1814, Adam Stirnimann lost his wife to death. The death register of St. Stephen calls her the "Meyenmacher" - she perhaps got the flower arrangements for the church - and adds that she was from Wolhusen and lived with her husband in Beromünster, i.e. in this one Parish, lived.
In 1818, Adam Stirnimann decided to sell his farm in Obern Blasenberg and move with his three sons and three daughters to Ohmstal, where he acquired the Landsberg farm. We know the middleman who evidently moved Adam to this late decision - he was 65, at that time an old age - and who probably enabled him to buy the Landsberg farm. It was a relative, the judge Sebastian Stirnimann in the hall in Ruswil (he was mentioned in the last newsletter, page 6f.). He owned the Landsberg farm, against whose owners, the brothers Johann and Anton Kurmann, the bankruptcy was opened, together with the Sursee city councilor Balthasar Göldlin, landlord to the Sonne, at the public increase in Alberswil on March 2, 1818 at a low price of 14 ‘050 G1 acquired. Adam Stirnimann soon realized that by buying the farm he was doing the business of his life. The Landsberg was with its over a hundred Juch. Land and forest more than twice the size of his farm, had new buildings and only cost a little more than the farm in Blasenberg, because Sebastian Stirnimann and his co-owners met him with the price: instead of the 14'050 G1 (.18'733 , 50 Fr.), which they had paid, they left the farm to him for 12,000 G1 (= CHF 16,000). It is not unreasonable to assume that the judge Sebastian Stirnimann, a very wealthy man and apparently just as generous as his father, advocated this concession, perhaps even bearing the loss alone. Adam acted quickly. On July 17, 1818, he initially sold the house, barn, the stake in the warehouse and 20 3/4 Juch. Land and 2 Juch. Wald for 6,000 G1 or CHF 8,000. After just four days, on July 21, he made the purchase in Ohmstal. On August 7th, the other 20 became Juch. Land and a yoke. Wald im Blasenberg sold to a neighbor for Cl 4,000 or CHF 5,333 1/3.
When Adam Stirnimann bought it, the Landsberg farm comprised around 18 years of age. Baumgarten and Matten, approx. 65 Juch. Weidland and approx. 16 Juch. Forest. The house with two apartments and an attached barn was new. The property also included the Landsberg-Hüsli home with 3 Juch. Field and 4 Juch Forest. The farm was encumbered with mortgages with a total value of 10,146 G1 25 schillings. After their withdrawal, Adam Stirnimann still had to pay 15 Schilling l'853 G1. He paid Cl 500 in cash, the rest in securities.
April 1822, the death register of Ettiswil reports where the residents of Ohmstal had gone to church, that the widower Adam Stirnimann, provided with all the sacraments, died in Ohmstal, it names his parents Johann Stirnimann and Anna Maria Grossmann and gives his age at 70, what corresponds almost exactly to the date of baptism in the Ruswil baptismal register.
January 1823 the three sons Johann Georg, Joseph Anton and Stephan bought out their three sisters Elisabeth, Anna Maria and Marianna with 400 Gl each.
Of the three sons, only the marriages and children of Johann Georg and Joseph Anton are known (see panel V of the family tables of the Chronicle). We will turn to them below.
I. The eldest son Johann Georg (m. Maria Blum) took over the Landsberg farm in 1840. His only son Johann Georg, * 23. July 1830, d. Kriens April 19, 1900 (with his son), had three sons from his wife Ursula Kneubühler: Johann, Joseph and Anton. In the following their biographical dates, marriages and children (the latter not listed on panel V of the chronicle).
Johann Joseph Anton
1858-1912 1859-1895 1870-1928
Farmer on Landsberg landlord to Sonnenberg butcher and landlord
m. 1893 Elisabeth Muri Kriens Metzgerhalle, Kriens
1864-1950 m. 1888 Kath. Marfurt m. I. Keller family
1860-1944, m. II. 1896 m. II. Kath. Schättin
Frid. Wicki
Children: Children: Children I. Marriage
1. Johann called Eduard 1. Joseph 1. Emilie
1894-1970 1889-1924 * 1897
Farmer on Landsberg Genf
m. 1923 M. Häfliger m.1921 Violette 2nd Albertina
born Imbach Irene Obici 1899-1929
2. Maria Louisa 2. Richard 3. Anton Emil
1895-1922 1890-1973 1901-1904
teacher in Schüpfheim
m. 1916 Marie Bucher 4. Alfred
(See picture of life * 1902 1901-1904
P. 13 f.) m. 1930 Mathias Wyss
3. Johann Xaver
1897-
Farmer on Landsberg
m. 1928 Marie Meyer
4. Maria Bertha
1898-1909
5. Bertha Elisabeth
1899-1926
6. Joseph
1901-1939
Cheesemaker in Menznau
(Twerenegg)
m. 1926 Agnes Tanner
Friedrich
* 1910
Master gardener Olten
m. Rosa Martha Loosli
Children II. Marriage:
1. Bertha
* 1908
m. 1937 Alois Kaufmann
2. Ida
* 1909
m. 1932 Alfred Heer
3. Maria Katharina
* 1911
m. 1936 Anton Achermann
4. Katharina
* 1912
m. 1935 Rob. Jost Hammer
5. Anton
* 1913
m. 1950 Rosmarie Schöb
6. Elisabetha
* 1915
m. 1941 Josef Buchmann
7. Josephine
1916-1927
8. Franz
1919-1920
9. Johann
* 1920
m. 1953 Maria Josephine Schumacher
10. Emma
* 1922
m. 1953 Canisius Bouquet
11. Alois
* 1922
m. 1948 Gertrude Olga Frey
II. Joseph Anton, the second son of Adam Stirnimann, was first a farmer on his father's farm and taught the children of the Ohmstal comprehensive school, probably during the winter months. The fellow citizens entrusted the able man with the office of poor carer and mayor. In 1840 Joseph Anton leased the Riedbruggmühle in Ettiswil with the associated farm (112 Juch. Land and 8 Juch. Forest). On June 9, 1842, he acquired the mill and property for Gl 49,000 (= CHF 65,333). In 1852 he bought the neighboring home Riedbrugg (2 years old) for 7,000 Gl. Joseph Anton had five children from his first wife, Anna Maria Frey, and fifteen children from his second wife, Maria Josepha Kneubühler. Most of the sons (listed on Plate V of the Chronicles) and daughters grew up and were distinguished by their ability in life and work. At least the daughter Maria Elisabeth (1828-1895) should be mentioned, who first entered the order of the Ursulines in Lucerne (Maria Hilf), was a teacher and after the abolition of this monastery in 1847 moved to the Dominican convent of St. Peter in Schwyz and in 1854 as Sr. Maria Vincentia made her profession. She worked as a teacher, organist, became a novice master and subprioress, and was a highly esteemed prioress almost without interruption from 1863 until her death. Three sons from Riedbrugg emigrated to America, two of them have disappeared there. Persecuted by misfortune and misfortune, Joseph Stirnimann had to sell one piece of land after another. In 1867 he sold the Riedbrugg property after moving to 42 Juch. had shrunk, on 8. He died June 1868.
Finally, may the evidence of common origins provided on these pages, the memory of the sacrifices and efforts that the fathers and mothers of past generations undertook for their children, the memory of the achievements and successes of the ancestors, whose beneficiaries are the descendants the revived history of the Landsberg farm, which for a century and a half was the cradle and home of this widespread and capable family, the piety towards the ancestors and among the living consolidate and deepen the awareness of community and togetherness.
J. St.
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Our family chronicle "The Stirnimann family in the cantons of Lucerne and Aargau" (Bernmünster 1973) can be obtained from Josef Stirnimann Wälchli, Eintracht, Rüediswil, 6017 Ruswil, for CHF 15. It contains the family tables of the Ruswil family, including the family table of the Stirnimann von Ohmstal family, which is not printed in this circular.
ERWIN STIRNEMANN
14.4.1885 - 31.3.1970
City Council of Zurich 1935 - 1946
National Council (1943-46), Colonel
Erwin Stirnemann was born on April 14, 1885 in his home town of Gränichen as the youngest of fourteen children of the carpenter called Kyzenjoggi. However, he was only baptized eight years later together with his three next older siblings Paul, Lidia and Hulda, when this sister was to be confirmed and it was discovered that the baptism was still missing. Such a fact may hardly be considered believable; If, however, one generally knows the hostility to authority of the Gränicher, which has been ascertainable over centuries, and considers that the 'army', the pastor, was an instrument of the gracious gentlemen at the time of the Bernese regiment, then one can rather keep the distance from officials of all kinds, which was still awake afterwards understand.
All of the siblings became skilled professionals; most of the sisters held master craftsman positions in the branches of the Bally shoe factory. The already mentioned Hulda later became superior in the Salemspital in Bern. Erwin decided to train in the promising machine industry and started an apprenticeship as a machine draftsman at Oehler & Co in Aarau. After four years of apprenticeship, the first of which was spent in the workshops, he voluntarily took the cantonal final apprenticeship examination, which was not yet compulsory at the time, and passed with all possible maximum grades. A cantonal scholarship enabled him to visit the technical center in Burgdorf in the mechanical engineering department. He also trained in mathematics and graphostatics. He was given a talent for technical things and made his studies easy. As an apprentice, he had already developed a new method for calculating conical gears in a graphical manner, and now at the technical center he was partly known and partly unpopular because of his idiosyncratic solutions to technical problems.
As a qualified technician, he returned to his teaching company. During the study period and the following years, the military basic training and the advanced training courses fell up to the achievement of the lieutenant's certificate with the engineering troops. Even then - and this can certainly be noted as an example - he received full wages from his employer for the entire period of military service. The following years of professional travel brought him to Buss & Co in Basel, again to Oehler & Co in Aarau and then to the Bühler brothers in Uzwil. From this house he was soon sent as a department head on extensive study trips to Italy, England, Holland and Germany, where he examined transport systems, loading facilities and silos of all kinds carefully. It may be astonishing that such a young man - it's the year 1911, and Erwin Stirnemann was almost 26 years old - was given such preferential treatment. But in the meantime he had also learned to master the field of structural engineering in self-study, a thing that many aspiring people will not succeed in their entire lives. In addition, the machine industry had not yet stepped out of the test stage and every major construction was in effect.
The possibility is nothing more than a probing on a scale of 1: 1. Those who had the ability to intuitively recognize the practicable solution were far ahead of their colleagues who only thought abstractly and could confidently look to the future.
Erwin Stirnemann arrived in Moscow at the end of 1911 and took over the company Erlanger and Bühler created the department for transport systems and silo construction. During the next few years he toured all of Eastern Europe and Finland as far as the Black Sea and had his hands full managing the orders that were brought in. Then the First World War brought an unforeseen end to his beneficial work for Mother Russia. In Moscow he took over the leadership of the Swiss returning home for military service and with them reached Odessa, Sicily and Switzerland in a rather complicated detour via Kiev. In the meantime, the border occupation had begun there even without him, but he still had enough opportunity to enjoy active service, occasionally to become a captain and mainly to open up the Jura with roads.
Professionally, he had returned to the parent company in Uzwil. In 1922 he moved to Daverio & Co in Zurich, where, as a senior engineer, he planned and developed not only many silo and transport systems but also the single-stage coal conveyor system for the Zurich district heating plant, a novelty at that time. His military career ran parallel to his professional development: Major and battalion commander of the Aargau sappers, president of the Zurich General Officers Association, lieutenant colonel.
A turning point came in the autumn of 1934 when a city councilor died in Zurich and the free-thinking party was embarrassed about whom to portray. Since his arrival in Zurich, Erwin Stirnemann had gradually made himself unpopular as a patriotically active man by founding and promoting various patriotic associations and institutions with most left-wing groups and was therefore at least not suspicious of Zurich liberalism, although he naturally had the eminent disadvantage of neither A resident of Zurich, still a financially strong industrialist. These, however, were not considered as candidates because they preferred more lucrative jobs in less exposed locations. So the Gränicher city council of Zurich, who moved to Zurich, became a citizen of this city and ran the building authority from 1935 to 1946. As it could hardly be otherwise - there are many interactions between professional position and military promotion - the promotion was then also taken Colonel and chief of genius of a division. During the Second World War he was chief of genius of the city fortifications of Zurich, deputy chief genius of two army corps and a short-lived 15th division. In 1943 he was elected to the National Council by the people of Zurich, where he, more like a magistrate than a debating parliamentarian, was unable to fully develop. After the end of the war, it was time to let younger forces approach the solution of the problems that were now emerging. Erwin Stirnemann had the format to voluntarily retire from his offices prematurely for this reason.
Now he had leisure to devote himself more than before to cultural matters. Through his partner Friederike Honegger, the daughter of the country doctor Friedrich Honegger in Uzwil, whom he met there and married her in Moscow at the beginning of 1914, he was, previously interested in technology, from the partner who was trained in arts and crafts and painting to expand the General education has been conducted. The tireless companion complimented and supported him so happily that a good part of the success was due to her: she looked like a base camp commandant, who through his quiet, prudent work allows the summiteer to achieve his spectacular results in the first place and then to return knowing that everything will be fine when he gets home. The wife raised two sons for him, which sounds very easy, but was not always that easy. She dealt with the military correspondence with the meticulousness of a trained man Adjutants, she corrected city council speeches until they were ready for publication, she represented or was withdrawn as the moment required, she mended and cooked and kept the household busy. Where would Erwin Stirnemann have ended up, despite his talent, without such a companion?
Perhaps the moment has come to refer to the rudimentary information on the pedigree. The compilation shows how the population movement and mixing multiplied with the beginning of industrialization: The Aargau native married in Moscow a woman from Zurich, who grew up in St. Gallen, whose mother in turn had an Italian father and a native mother (thus also second cousin of the future abbot Ignatius Dust from Einsiedeln was) and grew up in Wädenswil ZH.
Erwin Stirnemann had already dealt with the promotion of painting and sculpture as a city councilor and, as a national councilor, he submitted several postulates on the promotion of art by the federal government. On the other hand, through his office he came into close contact with the Sihlwald and Sihl valley, as a large part of the city forests are in this area and the forestry office is also subordinate to the head of building authority.
In the last phase of his life - for almost another twenty-five years he devoted himself to these areas. From nothing he developed an association Pro Sihltal, which endeavors to preserve and popularize this valley, which lies just outside Zurich and which most people only know very superficially. He edited an annual journal that contained structural, economic, historical, scientific and cultural work on the valley in constant change and was always richly illustrated with drawings by artists living in the Sihl valley. He earned a lot of recognition for his commitment and in 1964 a footbridge over the Sihl that was created through his initiative was christened “Stirnemann-Steg".
Until his last days he was to be found on hikes on the Albis and on the Zimmerberg range that border the Sihl valley. At the end of March 1970, a few days before his 85th birthday, he died sitting at his desk with the draft for a letter concerning the Sihl valley in front of him.
Roland J. Stirnemann
Pedigree of Roland J. Stirnemann
While the family tree only shows members of a certain family, the ancestral table includes all ancestors of a person: parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc. With each generation, the number of ancestors doubles: 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, 16 great-great-grandparents, etc., in of the 10th generation there are 1024 ancestors. There are famous pedigrees that go back to the first millennium. Only the pedigree gives one to some extent a holistic picture of a person's ancestry and genetic makeup, which are often more decisively shaped by one of the many female than male ancestors. The initial person on a pedigree is marked with the number 1, the parents with 2 and 3, the grandparents with 4-7, the great-grandparents with 8-15. All male ancestors have even digits, all female ancestors have odd digits.
The following pedigree shows the ancestors of Roland J. Stirnemann, the author of the previous article, to the great-grandparents. This pedigree reveals very different blood. The father and his ancestors came from Gränichen in Aargau, the mother and her father from Wald in the canton of Zurich, the maternal grandmother was an Italian from Rodero near Como, her mother a Staub from Menzingen. The ancestors from Gränichen and the canton of Zurich belonged to the Evangelical Reformed, the Italian and Zugerian ancestors of the Roman Catholic denomination.
1. Stirnemann Roland IVO, *Uzwil/SG, 11.4.1920, Forestery, ETH Pianders/TI
2. Stirnemann Erwin (1885-1970) v. Gränichen, from Zurich since 1935, Masch.-Ing. City Council of Zurich
m. Moscow February 2nd / 15th, 1914
3. Honegger Friederike (1888-1974) v. Zurich, in Uzwil / SG
4. Stirnemann Jakob (1837-1924) from Grännichen / AG Zimmermann in Gränichen
m. Granichen
May 21, 1861
5. Rüegger Maria Nina (1841-1920) v. Niederwil / Rothrist
6. Honegger Friedrich (1859-1922) v. Zurich Dr.med., Doctor in Uzwil / SG
7. Cavallasca Maria Angelika (1863-1942) v. Rodero (Como) in Wädenswil
8. Stirnemann Johann Jakob (1807-1889) von Gränichen, in Zofingen
9. Plüss Anna Barbara (1804-1843) v. Ricken / Morgenthal
10. Rüegger Johannes (1804-1878) v. Niederwil / Rothrist
11. Bolliger Verena (1806-1864) from Gontenschwil / AG
12. Honegger Johannes (1822-1889) from Wald / ZH, professional woman v. Zurich
13. Hafner Elisabeth (1831-1922) from Elsau / ZH
14. Cavallasca Giovanni (1831-1897) from Rodero (Como), master builder in Wädenswil
15. Staub Maria Elisabetha (1839-1872) from Menzingen / ZG
We congratulate: Hildegard and Josef Stirnimann-Haas (our President), Unter-Sonnebergli, Ruswil, report the happy birth of their first child Denise, * 19. November 1978.
Hans Stirnimann, master hairdresser, Triengen (son of Moritz StirnimannHelfenstein, Winikon, formerly Ruswil, Althus), made the bond for life with Maria Wyss von Buren on August 5, 1978. The yodeler Hans Stirnimann has been at the top of the rankings at the federal and cantonal yodelling festivals since 1975.
Franz Xaver and Elisabeth Stirnimann-Seiler, Horw, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on March 12, 1978.
Dr.med.vet. Josef Stirnimann-Schüpfer, Ruswil, generally valued as a veterinarian and original in his community, celebrated his 70th birthday on March 14, 1978.
Franz Stirnimann-Müller, Etzenerlen, Ruswil, sawmill worker at HauptAG, timber construction company, Ruswil, celebrated his 65th birthday on July 18, 1978 birthday.
Moritz Stirnimann-Helfenstein, former master cheese maker, Winikon (formerly in Ruswil Althus), celebrated his 70th birthday on July 29, 1978.
Ms. Rosa Stirnimann-Küng, Nällenhüsli, Ruswil, turned 70 on September 25, 1978.
Alois Stirnimann-Küng, Hinter-Etzenerlen, Ruswil, turned 80 on October 8, 1978.
Anton Stirnimann-Schöb, a. Hospital cashier, Wesemlinstr. 20, Lucerne, who initiated our first family conference in 1979 and actively supported the founding of our family association in 1974 and has been its treasured treasurer ever since, celebrated his 65th birthday on October 9, 1978.
Ms. Marie Stirnimann-Küng, Schuhhaus, Neuenkirch, celebrated her 83rd birthday on January 31, 1979.
HH. Anton Stirnimann (born in Ruswil, ceiling honey), previously pastor in lfenthal / SO, was installed as pastor of Herzogenbuchsee on October 15, 1978.
Lic. Jur. Franz Stirnimann-Müller (son of our first President, teacher Hans Stirnimann-Haupt) has been an economist at the Federal Department of Finance in Bern since spring 1977.
Three descendants of the Stirnimann von Ohmstal family successfully completed their secondary school studies with the Matura in the summer of 1978:
Miss Renata Hürlimann (daughter of Albert and Elsa Hürlimann-Stirnimann. Allen winds, Zug), type B;
Bruno Marelli (son of Georg and Alice Marelli-Stirnimann, Dorfstr. 8, Lucerne), type C;
Herbert Koch (son of Alois and Hilde Koch-Stirnimann, Dorfstasse 8, Lucerne), type D.
Miss Jolanda Marelli (daughter of Georg and Alice Marelli-Stirnimann, Dorfstrasse 8, Lucerne) received the kindergarten teacher diploma.
Miss Franziska Stirnimann (daughter of Moritz and Madeleine Stirnimann-Affolter, Lindenstr. 8, Lucerne) successfully passed the Matura (type B) at the Bethlehem grammar school in Immensee in June 1978.
Markus Stirnimann (son of tJosef and Rosa Stirnimann-Schwegler, Nella, Ruswil) passed the final apprenticeship examination as a carpenter with good success and obtained the Lucerne trade patent.
Our condolences: On August 10, 1978, Josef Stirnimann-Schwegler, Handelsmann, Ruswil (Nella), his wife and six children at the age of only 46, was torn away after a serious illness.
On September 21, 1978, Josef StirnimannKaufmann, chauffeur at the Rütter company in St. Erhard, passed away in Knutwil (Bäsler) at the age of 50.
On February 6, 1979, Alois StirnimannHelfenstein (father of our President), who has been a farmer in Ruswil (Vorder Strick) since 1935, at the age of 74, passed away after severe suffering.
The Hans Stirnimann family, Waldstrasse 43, Reussbühl, mourn the loss of their hopeful 16-year-old son Beat (March 2, 1979).
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70 years of Landgasthof Eintracht, Rüediswil
Josef and Olga Stirnimann-Wälchli, commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Landgasthof Eintracht in Rüediswil on September 30, 1978 in a dignified anniversary celebration. Johann Stirnimann-Müller (moved from Menznau, but born in Gettnau-Ettiswil), the father of the current owner, bought the inn in 1919. After his untimely death (1921) the widow continued the business. Her son Josef Stirnimann-Wälchli, our deserving board member, took over the house in 1946. In the 32 years the innkeeper has rebuilt, beautified, modernized the Eintracht and, together with his capable wife, made it a widely appreciated and popular meeting place for hospitality and Made sociability. The mayor, the representatives of the corporation and the associations paid tribute to the life's work of the host couple and thanked them for their commitment to the service of the community.
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Addendum to: "The family Stirnimann von Ohmstal"
Richard Stirnimann-Bucher, teacher, Schüpfheim
Probably the best-known and most important personality from our Ohmstal family in the past 50 years was Richard Stirnimann (1890-1973), who worked as an exemplary teacher and educator in Schüpfheim for 48 years, held important public offices and was very committed to cultural life earned in the community. The chronicle of his family would be incomplete without his life picture. This is taken from the "Vaterland" (14.12.1973).
"Richard Stirnimann was born in Ohmstal on September 30, 1890. He lost his father at the age of five. His mother remarried, and when his parents bought a commercial building in Schüpfheim after the turn of the century, the path of life for the intelligent boy was mapped out After graduating from the relevant schools in 1911 with excellent grades, he acquired a teaching certificate and started his first apprenticeship at the lower school in Klusen. For 48 years the deceased served in various school departments in the community of Schüpfheim: 9 years in Klusen, 2 years at the 4th and 5th grade in the village, 16 years in the 6th and 5th grade 7th grade and 21 years old, he led the first graders to the sources of "science" as a fatherly friend and dear educator. It was a richly fulfilled schoolmaster life that R. Stirnimann concluded with his last exam on March 21, 1959. Two generations have passed "through his hands" as students - two generations in classes with 60 or more heads thank their former teacher beyond the grave for everything he taught them in terms of knowledge and skills in an atmosphere full of humanity. When the school year was over for him, he could pass his students on with a well-filled school bag. May the Lord reward him.
In Miss Marie Bucher from the Hotel Kreuz, he found his equally kind and faithful partner. They shared joys and sorrows for 57 years. They were given four children - two boys and two girls, of whom their daughter Marie died in her youth. The father was attached to the family with every fiber of his heart, and trained the children to become capable people. What Richard Stirnimann could spare in free time, he largely sacrificed to the public and the clubs. For years he served as Temporary job at the governor's office. The people and the government placed their trust in him by being elected vice governor and deputy clerk, which he held for eight years. For 34 years he was committed to water supply issues, including 28 years as a cashier. As an auditor and member of the board of directors, he helped manage the Volksbank for 37 years.
In the men's choir, in the Cecilia Society, in the theater company and in the orchestra as a "violin scratcher" as he once wrote of himself, he held a wide variety of roles. The Feldschützengesellschaft made him an honorary member in 1931 and in recognition of his commitment to shooting, he was elected to the Official Rifle Council. This is by no means exhaustive of the non-professional activity of the dear deceased. For many years, he was President of the Schüpfheim-Flühli Youth Protection Commission, which also involved looking after the Schüpfheim children's home. For 24 years he managed the cash desk of the district conference Schüpfheim-Flühli “.
Our board:
President: Josef Stirnimann-Haas, teacher, Unter-Sonnebergli, 6017 Ruswil Vice-President: Prof. Dr. Josef Stirnimann, Dreilindenstr. 26, 6006 Lucerne Actuary: Miss Heidi Stirnimann, operator / clerk, Acheregg
6362 Stansstad
Treasurer: Anton Stirnimann-Schöb, civil servant, Wesemlinstr. 20, 6006 Lucerne Material manager: Josef Stirnimann-Wälchli, Landgasthof Eintracht landlord, Rüediswil, 6017 Ruswil
Member: Ms. Maria Stirnimann-Schenkermayr, Murgasse 1, 6017 Ruswil
Extended Board:
Roland Stirnemann-Bächi, forest engineer, 6951 Piandera Ti
Hans Stirnimann, machine draftsman, Worblaufenstr. 21, 3048 Worblaufen Willy Stirnimann, teacher, 6017 Schüpfheim
Josef Stirnimann-Greber, community clerk, 6023 Rothenburg Josef Stirnimann, electrical specialist, Schrenngasse 16, 8003 Zurich
Auditors:
Hans Stirnimann-Sucher, managing director, Windbühl, 6017 Ruswil Erwin Stirnimann, businessman, Haldenrain 7, 6006 Lucerne
The President asked for contributions, communications and suggestions for the newsletter.
Enclosures: Payment slip (annual membership fee: CHF 10) Directory of members