| Peter Stirnimann,... 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. |
Heinrich Stirnimann
Barbara Stirnimann
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