6017 Ruswil - August 1984 No. 10
Dear relatives and cousins
Dear members and friends of our family association
Family, clan and home have always been among the forces that give us support and security or should normally give us. Based on this knowledge, more than ten years ago courageous members of our family took the initiative to hold a family conference. Success proved them right. And so they dared to take the next step, founding a family association. On September 8, 1974, the association of the Stirnimann families was founded in Ruswil. At the same time the statutes were approved, in which the task of the association is described under Art. 2. Due to this, the 5th family conference takes place on September 9, 1984, which serves to cultivate the sense of family and community. Furthermore, you will receive our newsletter every year, in which new research results are published about the individual families and branches. From the very beginning, the Board of Directors considered it its duty to arouse and promote an understanding and interest in our members for the ancestors who, following one another in a centuries-old chain, founded their families, tilled the clods or exercised some other profession The fortunes of their community co-determined and their lives decided in their ancestral surroundings and home. We really appreciate the fact that we have in our ranks in Prof. Josef Stirnimann an excellent and tireless researcher who, so to speak, contributes new insights into the history of our families in every newsletter. We owe it to him for our printed family chronicle.
We want to enter the second decade with the same optimism and the same ideals, in order to help the association to further develop and flourish. Our warmest thanks go to all those who have contributed in any way to the prosperity of our family association.
The newsletters 8 and 9 unfortunately appeared at the end of the association's year for various reasons. The annual fee was therefore valid for the year that was soon to pass, i.e. 1982 or 1983, so it wasn't for the coming year. That is why this circular is accompanied by a green payment slip for the membership fee of CHF 10 .-- for the year 1984. May I again ask you all to comply with this obligation, which I would like you to do in advance Thank you. A big thank you goes to all those who in turn voluntarily increased their contribution to 15, 20, 30, 50 or even 100 francs last year.
An invitation to the 5th family conference is also included. The board hopes to welcome a large number of family members. The family members are of course also welcome. Musical performances are particularly happy. If everything goes well, a Swiss Abroad from the Mark Brandenburg, GDR, Heinz Stirnemann and his wife Liselotte will honor us with their presence at this conference.
In this newsletter you can read the interesting article by Prof. Josef Stirnimann: The progenitors of the Stirnimann of Ruswil and Neuenkirch. Convincing evidence is provided here that the uninterrupted sequence of the progenitors of the Ruswil and Neuenkirch families begins around 1500.
We owe the second contribution to our member Heinz Stirnemann from Storbeck in the Mark Brandenburg, who was presented to you in the last newsletter. I thank him for his interesting overview of the history of his family, which was founded 300 years ago by a Swiss abroad.
"Being there for the others" is the title of the third contribution by our member Ms. Pia Jarrin-Stirnimann, whose admirable aid organization I recommend to your generosity.
As a new member I can welcome:
Meinrad Stirnimann-Müller, farmer, Studen, 6207 Nottwil
Ms. Alice Landtwing-Stirnimann, Löberenstrasse 49, 6300 Zug
Mrs. Marie-Agnes Staffelbach-Stirnimann, Post, 3426 Aefligen
Miss Margrit Stirnimann, Baarerstrasse 6, 6300 Zug
Ms. Pia Stadelmann-Stirnimann, Aegeristrasse 112, 6300 Zug
Ms. Brigitte Brunner-Stirnimann, Steinhauserstrasse 19, 6300 Zug
Ms. Ottilia Scherer-Stirnimann, Sedelstrasse 28, 6004 Lucerne
Ms. Philomena Bartholdi-Stirnimann, Zürcherhofstr. 2, 6312 Steinhausen, Germany
Markus Stirnimann-Kohler, Kilchhaldenstrasse, 8264 Pfaffnau
Xaver Stirnimann-Jurt, Breitenstrasse 130, 6370 Stans
Sincerely, I remain and hope to see you again at the family conference.
The President
Josef Stirnimann
The progenitors of the Stirnimann from Ruswil and Neuenkirch
The publication "The Stirnimann family in the cantons of Lucerne and Aargau" reports on page 26 ff. That Peter Stirnimann, the progenitor of the Ruswil and Neuenkirch families, with his wife Adelheid Bircher, his five children Hans, Peter, Hans Jakob , Maria and Barbara as well as his mother Kunigunde Sinner moved from Luthern to the farm in Roth in what is now Ruswil. Peter had a brother named Hans, both of whom were sons of Heinrich Stirnimann, who apparently was no longer alive when they moved. The written sources, on This information is based on the year book of the parish Sursee, to which the farm in the Roth belonged at that time, the baptismal registers of Luthern and Willisau as well as the register of military men of the county of Willisau (1) created in 1583.
Heinrich Stirnimann and his wife Kunigunde Sinner were the earliest known parents to whom the family line of Stirnimann of Ruswil and Luthern could be traced back.
The owners of the Witelingen farm near Pfaffnau
In the family history cited at the beginning, the assumption was made that Heinrich was the son of Peter Stirnimann, who is documented as the owner of the Witelingen farm near Pfaffnau for the period from 1534 to 1548. At the time mentioned, the Witelingen farm comprised 30 Wiesland workers, 150 Jucharten fields and pastures and was a fiefdom of the Cistercian monastery of St. Urban, to which the farmer had to pay the annual taxes stipulated in the arable land. In 1534 Peter Stirnimann had a legal dispute with the monastery because of the tithe, which the monastery wrongly claimed according to the fiefdom's statements. Court of Willisau decided the dispute in favor of the farmer. The conflict with the monastery is probably the explanation for why Peter Stirnimann was the only fief of his family in Witelingen. According to the list of feudal farmers in Witelingen in the White Urbar of St. Urban Monastery, Peter Stirnimann was replaced by Uoli Blum, who was followed after 1562 by Hans Blum, undoubtedly the latter's son (2). The register of men fit for military service, created in 1583, lists two farmers in Witelingen with one son each:
Balthasar Blum and Peter, his son Hans Blum and Jörgi, his son.
Balthasar and Hans were definitely the sons of Uoli Blum, who had acquired the farm from Peter Stirnimann, the two brothers had shared the paternal farm (3).
The account of the children of Ulrich Stirnimann
Without a doubt, it was the aforementioned Hans Blum against whom Heinrich Stirnimann presented himself to the mayor and council of Willisau on the eve of the feast of Petri Stuhlfeier (= February 21) in 1590. According to the document issued by the town clerk, Hans Blum had accused Heinrich Stirnimann of having financially disadvantaged the children of his deceased brother Ulrich Stirnimann. Heinrich Stirnimann asked the mayor and to advise the question witnesses "of the truth against Hans Blum" through the town clerk "according to the legal form" and to give him a copy of the protocol. As a witness, Heinrich Stirnimann presented Christian Rösch, Weibel of the Luthern district, the Vogt, i.e. guardian of the children of Ulrich, as well as an unknown Kaspar Zuber. The statements of the two men basically represent a detailed bailiff's account, which completely exonerates Heinrich Stirnimann from the allegations made against him (4).
As already noted, this Hans Blum cannot be anyone other than the owner of the Witelingen farm at the time. At that time the Blum family is only proven in the Pfaffnau area, especially in Witelingen, but not in the Luthern Valley. Hans Blum knew the brothers Heinrich and Ulrich Stirnimann from the time when they were still in Witelingen. We have no reason to doubt that Heinrich and Ulrich The sons of Peter Stirnimann, the former owner of the Witelingen farm, which was subsequently acquired by Uoli Blum and whose owner can be proven to have been his son Hans Blum in 1590. There was probably tension and disagreement between the families of the seller and the buyer, one of their effects may be the dishonorable allegations that Hans Blum made about Heinrich Stirnimann.
Peter Stirnimann to Witelingen
We do not know whether Peter Stirnimann still sold the Witelingen farm himself to Uoli Blum, or whether the fiefdom was only sold by his sons after the father's death. We also do not know the place and year of Peter Stirnimann's death, and the name of his wife is not yet known either. It is very possible that the names of both will emerge, perhaps in a brotherhood directory. It seems impossible that Peter Stirnimann, like his son Heinrich, moved to Luthern; his name is not found in any church or state document relating to Luther.
There are good reasons why Peter Stirnimann can now be regarded as the earliest direct progenitor of the Ruswil and Neuenkirch families. As he demonstrated in the trial with the St. Urban monastery, he had taken over the Witelingen farm in 1534. He was one of the seven religious refugees of our family who immigrated within a few years from Aargau, which had become Protestant, to the northern area of the canton of Lucerne after the second peace in the country (November 1531). If Peter Stirnimann was a young man between the ages of 20 and 30 when he took over the Witelingen farm in 1534, the beginning of the lineage or the family tree of the Ruswil and Neuenkirch families may henceforth be set around 1500.
Heinrich Stirnimann
Of the two sons of Peter Stirnimann from Witelingen, Heinrich, who was married to Kunigunde Sinner, moved to Luthern around 1570 at the latest, perhaps a little earlier. Heinrich Stirnimann names the toboggan of the St. Elogius Brotherhood, founded in the parish of Luthern in 1569, among the first members. This is the first time he is mentioned in a document in Luthern. In 1583 he met there with his sons Hans and Peter among the able-bodied men. On February 16, 1588, together with Weibel Christian Rösch and Kaspar Bircher, he was a witness at the church wedding of his daughter Maria with Hans Scherli of Luthern. On March 20, 1591 - his last mention in the church records, he baptized the boy Balthasar of the married couple Anton Ruchknecht and Maria Keler.
Determine the children of the Heinrich Stirnimann-Sinner couple to some extent. The two sons Hans and Peter were married in Luthern, Hans in 1st marriage with Agatha Duner (3 children), in 2nd marriage with Anna Winterberger (no children). Peter's wife was called Adelheid Bircher (6 children), she was, as will be explained later, the daughter of Kaspar Bircher, 1578-1598 six and the court in Luthern, and Kathrin Bättig. Certainly a son, so to speak, and indeed the eldest of Heinrich Stirnimann and Kunigunde Sinner, Heinrich, who in 1583, together with his servant Peter Hiltbrunner (a family from the Luthern Valley), is named among the able-bodied men of Willisau and has been married to Elsbeth Schütz there since 1595 was (7 children). The daughter Maria, who married Hans Scherli in the parish church of Luthern on February 16, 1588, has already been mentioned. Barbara, who had been married to Gabriel Peyer in Willisau since 1599, was almost certainly one of our couple's daughters; her husband was the official sack master from 1601-1624 and mayor of Willisau from 1623-1629 (d.1632). A third daughter may have been Anna, who was married with Johann Hildbrand of Luthern. At the baptisms of these real or presumed sons and daughters, in some cases the same relatives and people from Luther come across as godparents. Let's summarize what has been said in the following overview:
Children of Heinrich Stirnimann and Kunigunde Sinner:
Heinrich m. Elsbeth Schütz - residing in Willisau
Hans m. 1. Agatha Duner, m. 2. Anna Winterberg - lives in Luthern
Peter m. Adelheid Bircher - moves to Ruswil, d. 1.12.1620
Maria m. Hans Scherli - lives in Luthern
Barbara m. Gabriel Peyer - residing in Willisau
Anna m. Johann Hildbrand - resides in Luthern
It is not yet known where in the Luthern Valley Heinrich Stirnimann lived with his family and what the name of his farm was.
When did Heinrich Stirnimann die?
The date of death of Heinrich Stirnimann is not entered in Luthern's death register, but it can be inferred approximately from the Willisau council minutes. According to this, Heinrich Stirnimann and his son Peter appeared on the Saturday before St. Jörgatag (= April 22nd) of the year 1592 before Schultheiss and advisor to Willisau as plaintiffs against the brothers Hans and Melchior Bettig. The subject of the dispute was a willow belonging to the Bettig brothers. The plaintiffs presumably challenged the sales contract or the price. The council minutes record the decision of the court in the following words:
"If you know, if Heini or Peter put it down to the pasture within a month, then you should stay where it is, then you should stay with you.”
The Bettig brothers appealed the judgment (5). The next court hearing was on the Wednesday before Pentecost 1592 (= 10 May 1592). This time Wilhelm Müller appeared as Vogt, i.e. supporter of Heinrich Stirnimann's wife and his son Peter. The fact that, instead of Heinrich Stirnimann, an assistant to his wife appears before the judges is sure proof that Heinrich Stirnimann died in the time between the two court hearings, more precisely between April 22 and May 10, 1592. Since the woman was almost completely incapable of acting under the law of the time, she usually had to be represented by a bailiff for all legal transactions. In the present case, the mayor and the council confirmed the judgment of the first instance (6).
Kuniqunde Sinner
Where did Heinrich Stirnimann's wife come from? The Sinner have been settled in St. Urban, Langnau and Richenthal, i.e. in the area around Witelingen, since the 15th century (7). The most important branch was undoubtedly that of Richenthal, which in the 16th and 17th centuries achieved a leading position that lasted for several generations. Three members of the Richenthaler dynasty held the office of the six in the circle of six, which included Reiden, Wikon, Langnau, Melseken and Richenthal, sometimes also called Weibel, that is the highest political office of the district: Heinrich 1578-1580, Heinrich 1631-1633, probably the son of the aforementioned, and Jakob, who mobilized the population of the lower part of the Willisau office as a leader against the government in the great peasants' war in 1633. The Witelingen farm belongs to the Richenthal parish (the distance between the farm and the village and its church is 4 km). What could be more natural than the assumption that Kunigunde Sinner came from Richenthal, from the same parish in which her husband Heinrich Stirnimann was born and baptized and spent his youth?
The Sinner family died out in Richenthal in the 19th century. The Sinner farm still exists there today.
(To be continued in the next newsletter)
J. St.
Remarks:
Lucerne State Archives, Certificate 268/4699: Directory of male persons over 14 years of age, houses and fireplaces in the county of Willisau. - This toboggan probably the basis for a fair copy of the Codex 2100: Register of the farm and country settlers in the instead of Lucern country estate begun in 1583
See the family Stirnimann i.d. Cantons of Lucerne and Aargau, p. 21 f.
See note 1: Cod. 2100 fol. 34 ".
See the family Stirnimann i.d. Cantons ... p. 28, note 1.
Lucerne State Archives, Minutes of the Council Willisau CB Volume 1/4 fol. 29r.
See note 5: fol. 30r.
Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz, Volume 6 (Neuchâtel 1931) p. 377, Article Sinner. - Willy Meyer, Die Sechser des Amtes Willisau = Heimatkunde des Wiggertal, Issue 32 (1974) 35-53 (with lists of names).
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For the sake of the future, man should uphold the past; it should sanctify the present for him.
Jeremias Gotthelf
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The Stirnemann von Storbeck family in the Mark Brandenburg (GDR)
- A brief outline of their history and genealogy -
In the course of the great "Bernfischen emigration" to the Mark Brandenburg in 1691 a Rudolf Stirnemann was introduced in Storbeck via Neuruppin. His exact place of origin is not yet known, because only the names of the first 12 farm owners have come down to us. However, it shouldn't be noted there are doubts that Rudolf Stirnemann from Aargau in Bern came, probably from Gränichen, perhaps from Aarburg, where our family has been attested since the 16th century. We first encounter the name of Rudolf Stirnemann in Storbeck's marriage book, which records his marriage to Marie Schneider on March 3, 1701; the age of the groom is given as 28 1/2 years, so he must have been born around 1672. The marriage book names Thalheim as the place of origin of the bride, it is likely to be the town of the same name in the Brugg district in the canton of Aargau, not Thalheim an der Thur in the canton of Zurich. Marie Schneider was the widow of the Swiss Jakob Wiss from Algisdorf (probably Arisdorf in Baselland), whom she married on June 30, 1693. After his death first wife (d. 30.11.1713) Rudolf Stirnemann entered into a second marriage on April 12th, 1714 with Anna Buchmann (* 1688/92 in Switzerland, d. Storbeck January 15th, 1743), she too was the daughter of Swiss emigrants, her parents were called Jost Buchmann (d. Storbeck October 12th, 1704) and Anna Huber (* around 1657 in Switzerland, d. Storbeck October 30th, 1737). With his second wife, Rudolf Stirnemann married the family farm, which is still owned by his descendants to this day, from which most of the Stirnemann of the Mark Brandenburg derive their origin. Rudolf Stirnemann died on December 21, 1749 in Storbeck. His marriage to Anna Buchmann was blessed with 5 sons and 2 daughters. The eldest son Rudolf (* 3.2.1715) married Marie Hirt, who was also of Swiss descent and who gave her husband 7 children. The eldest, this time a Johann Heinrich, married Barbara Scherler (5 children) in his first marriage and Marie Louise Rothacker (10 children) in his second marriage. Thanks to this joy of birth, our tribe has survived to this day. The family spread noticeably, it took root in nearby Neuruppin, later in Halle, Leipzig, Hamburg and many other places. The daughters mostly married farmers in other Swiss colonies or farmers, artisans and linen weavers in the village itself. The parent yard was never divided and so it has kept its original size of about 60 hectares to this day. The sons who left the farm mostly learned crafts and went out into the world. A Christoph Friedrich Stirnemann, as a saddler and wagon builder in Neuruppin, achieved a considerable base fortune. Another built up an existence as a saddler. Two members of the 5th and 6th generation married farms, so that of the twelve farms taken over by the immigrants in 1691, three were managed by members of our own family - as well as 5 by the Scherler who moved from Switzerland.
I myself belong to the 8th generation of the descendants of Rudolf Stirnemann, my two sons to the 9th, my grandson to the 10th generation. Genders come, go and pass away! An August Rudolf Stirnemann the 5th generation had a son and 11 daughters from the 1st marriage - they all married peasant sons in the area - from the 2nd marriage he had a son and three daughters; among the numerous descendants of this August Rudolf, not a single one bears our name.
It is my wish that our name will be kept for a long time, especially where it was originally at home.
It greets all namesakes, also on behalf of all Stirnemann's (7 of them in the vicinity).
Your Heinz Stirnemann
Storbeck
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The place where man sees the light of day, where he grows up, unfolds and develops as a child, has always been considered something venerable and sacred. This feeling can be heard again in all the songs about home and father's house. Man owes his parents and ancestors even greater reverence, as required by divine commandments and human statutes. Anyone who pensively looks back on the preceding families becomes aware of how much he owes them, how little he can do from himself. It urges him to be worthy of his ancestors not in blind imitation, but courageous and loyal to the tasks that his time poses.
Whoever God gave the luck to grow up in a familiar home, who is mindful of the blessing that flows to him from his ancestors, can brave the storms of life better than others. In times of need he will protect and defend his homeland with all his might. If fate has given you a less favorable youth, you will still want to convey this steady way of life to your descendants.
Josef Binkert
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I have a link in the Chetti, but if you don't have a single ring, the whole Chetti is useful.
Rudolf von Tavel
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Be there for the others
As a home economics and work teacher, I have always been interested in problem children and problem young people. So it was no coincidence that I applied for a position in an observation station for girls immediately after completing my training. For a few years I then taught in my home parish, and during this time the desire for further training in the field of curative education grew more and more. So I went back to school and completed the curative education seminar in Zurich. I then taught students with learning disabilities at the advanced training school of the City of Zurich for a number of years.
During a language stay in Spain, I decided at short notice to use what I had learned and the professional experience I had in development aid. After two development aid courses and a three-month preparatory assignment in an SOS Children's Village in Austria, the great adventure began for me: a boat trip from Italy through the Strait of Gibraltar, across the Atlantic Ocean, through the Panama Canal into the Pacific Ocean to Ecuador.
A few kilometers outside the capital Quito, at an altitude of almost 3,000 m, I took over the management of a children's village. For the first half of the year I was a European all alone. I found the task fascinating: guiding the children's village mothers, taking in new orphans, supervising and helping in upbringing, buying food, monitoring nutrition, etc. German development workers soon came to my aid and I was able to split up my various tasks somewhat. What I experienced in these short years would give a long report on its own.
At the beginning of January 1968 I went back home. When I was offered the management of a housekeeping school for people with learning disabilities, I accepted, knowing that "domestic development aid" was also needed. In the past 12 years I have been happy about everything that I have packed in my armor up to now had: professional knowledge, additional special education training, school practice and a lot of practical life. Dormitory management courses and a management course for parent education have gradually supplemented the training.
Being the home manager requires full commitment. The more you give, the more you get. The direct relationship to the person being looked after is unfortunately getting smaller, I would almost like to say that in this relationship it requires standing behind. My primary concern is that the good relationship between teachers, educators and students should play out. Everyday life consists of small things, and often enough in the evening, when I'm tired, I ask myself what the essentials I have actually achieved. If you are only looking for visible success, you would be in the wrong place here, it is important to put mosaic stone after mosaic stone together and put your own interests aside.
School and educational advice for staff, coordination of daily routines, setting up timetables and duty rosters, rethinking and keeping the training concept up to date, admitting new pupils, accompanying ex-pupils on their way to work, working with parents, with disability insurance, with Authorities. Contact and participation in professional associations, planning for the future. My work is extremely varied and is only successful if good employees do their best.
In the field of home education, there is hardly ever an excess of staff. It would be gratifying if more young people would place themselves in this diverse and meaningful service.
Being there for the others: Isn't this ultimately the task of all of us?
Pia Jarrin-Stirnimann
Solothurn
Addendum
Pia Stirnimann, our member since the beginning, daughter of Franz Xaver Stirnimann-Seiler (d. Horw 1980), one of the deserving co-founders of our family association, married the Peruvian Armando Jarrin in 1980, who like his wife has many years of experience as an educator and home manager comes to work as an inspector of all state youth homes in the Peruvian Ministry of Education. A year ago, Mr. and Mrs. Jarrin-Stirnimann founded the Fraternitas Humana association in Solothurn. This is intended to provide a home for a particularly disadvantaged group of Peruvian children and raise them to be responsible people. There are around 200 minors aged 0-14 years, girls and boys who - almost unbelievable for Europeans - have to live with their mothers in women's prisons. 880 prisoners and 200 children live crammed together in rooms that were planned for 200 inmates. In single cells of 2 x 2.70 m. house 4 or more adults with children. Children also sleep in corridors, eat on the floor, live in the midst of humiliation and violence, are humiliated or even sexually abused. Such is the situation in the Chorillos Women's Prison in Lima, Peru. Armando and Pia Jarrin have temporarily rented a house in Casma and taken in their first children. They are dependent on the ideal and material help of their circle of friends. We would like to recommend this urgently needed aid organization, about which you will soon receive more information in a brochure, to your generosity.
The president
The nocturnal stranger in the Rotherwald
A ghost story
In the Lower Roth, a hamlet in the municipality of Ruswil, is the ancient ancestral home of the Stirnimann of Ruswil and Neuenkirch family, which is best known to our readers. The road coming from Ruswil makes a bend around the main building and leads, past its north facade, in a westerly direction about 500 meters away, downhill through the Roth forest to Buttisholz. The dark forest is fissured with gloomy and narrow ravines
Stream channels. One can well imagine that, especially in earlier times, it was not everyone's cup of tea to cover the narrow path at that time in the pitch-dark night when the owls called.
A member of our family named Peter Stirnimann had an eerie experience in this forest around 1910. He entrusted it to his sister, who told us a few years ago.
Peter, a healthy man of 25 years, was at around midnight from St. Ottilien near Buttisholz, on the way home in the direction of Roth. As he approached the Roth forest, he saw a man on the roadside
ragged clothes, the wide-brimmed hat pulled so low over the face that it was invisible. Peter greeted the stranger, but he did not return the greeting. Peter thought to himself: "You can say hello to me too" and entered the forest. When he was about in the middle of the forest, he saw the stranger was standing on the way again in front of him. Peter then quickened his pace by thinking to himself: "I want to show you whether you can catch up with me again!” When it was his turn to leave the forest, the eerie stranger was back at the roadside. Now Peter felt cold. As a result, he avoided the path through the Rotherwald.
S.
The Stirnrüti in Horw
The oldest surviving tax role in the city of Lucerne was created in 1352 and named "Heini Stirnimanns Kind" among the taxpayers in the parish of Horw. This is the earliest mention of our family name. The same steering wheel also names a Uoli from Stirnrüti in the Horw neighboring Tribschen. It is reasonable to assume that they are members of the same family. The name researchers assume that the family name Stirnimann, first attested in the Horw area, derives from the local field named Stirnrüti. This is the name of the property located on the hill above today's home for the blind and bordered on three sides by the Bireggwald. "The forehead (the brow of the mountain, in German “Stirn”) is the upper, forest-free edge of the hillside", wrote the name researcher Gutram Saladin (Geschistorfreund, vol. 84, 1929, p. 132; also "The Stirnimann family in the cantons of Lucerne and Aargau, p. 2 ff.).
A few years ago, the old, stylish Lucerne farmhouse that was on the Stirnrüti unfortunately burned down. The approximately 48,000 square meter property, today one of the last large building land reserves in the Horw community, is to be built over in the near future. For the time being, five apartment buildings and eleven single-family houses are planned.
According to a report by
Lucerne news from 9.6.1984, p. 13
We congratulate
On June 10, 1984, Father Dr. phil. Hans Stirnimann celebrated his 75th birthday at a remote mission station in Tanzania. Our Africa researcher has come across with his books published by the University Press Freiburg the mountain people of the Pangwa, which he researched from 1964 to 1970, acquired a high international reputation. His works were presented in our newsletters. We wish our dear cousin and friend to continue and complete his current research venture continues to have good health and a successful graduation. Father Hans Stirnimann was there ten years ago in Ruswil when our association was founded. We would be happy and would appreciate it if we could welcome him back to our midst on September 9th.
Edith Stirnimann, Horw, daughter of our member Richard Stirnimann-Krieger, received her diploma as a primary school teacher at the cantonal teacher training college in Lucerne this summer with great success. She will soon take on her first job as a teacher of the 1st primary class in Kastanienbaum. At a time when it is well known that few teachers find a job, Edith Stirnimann appreciates this twice and we congratulate her on it.
We give our condolences
In Ruswil on February 25, 1984, Alois Stirnimann-Küng, a long-time farmer in Hinter-Etzenerlen, said goodbye to this world at the age of 86 after a rich and exemplary life.
WISDOM OF THE PEOPLE
Smile is a good sign. (Korean)
Every child tries how far they can go. (Russian)
When the storm blows you know the friend. (Norwegian)
Hate is a fire that no one can escape. (Syrian)
If the debt is high enough, it can safely get higher. (Corsican)
Sitting high on a throne is uncomfortable. (Persian)
Our board of directors
President: Josef Stirnimann-Haas, teacher, Unter-Sonnenbergli, 6017 Ruswil Vice-President: Prof. Dr. Josef Stirnimann, Adligenswilerstr. 11, 6006 Luzern Actuary: Miss Heidi Stirnimann, at Reistweg 1 / Kniri, 6370 Stans
Treasurer: Anton Stirnimann-Schöb, civil servant, Wesemlinstrasse 20, 6006 Lucerne Material administrator:
Member: Mrs. Maria Stirnimann-Schenkermayr, Murgasse 1, 6017 Ruswil Honorary President: Hans Stirnimann-Haupt, retired teacher, Rüediswilerstrasse 42, 6017 Ruswil
Extended Board
Roland Stirnemann-Bächi, forest engineer, 6951 Piandera T1
Hans Stirnimann, machine draftsman, Worblaufenstr. 21, 3048 Worblaufen Willy Stirnimann, teacher, 6170 Schüpfheim
Josef Stirnimann-Greber, community clerk, 6023 Rothenburg Josef Stirnimann, electrical specialist, Schrenngasse 16, 8003 Zurich
Auditors
Hans Stirnimann-Bucher, Managing Director, Windbühl, 6017 Ruswil Richard Stirnimann-Krieger, authorized signatory, Hubelstrasse 1, 6048 Horw
The President asked for contributions, communications and suggestions for the newsletter.
Enclosures: Payment slip (annual membership fee: CHF 10)
Invitation to the family meeting on September 9, 1984.
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Our printed chronicle
"The Stirnimann family in the cantons of Lucerne and Aargau" is available for CHF 15 at:
Mrs. Maria Stirnimann-Schenkermayr Murgasse 1
6017 Ruswil