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Matthias Johann Stirnimann

Person Chart

Parents

Father	Date of Birth	Mother	Date of Birth
Joseph Alois Stirnimann		Barbara Wollenmann (Stirnimann)

Partners

Partner	Date of Birth	Children
Maria Anna Hägi (Stirnimann)		Johann Baptist Peter Paul Matthias Stirnimann

Person Events

Event Type	Date	Place
Birth	05 Feb 1803	Sitenmoos, Switzerland
Marriage	17 Aug 1846
Death	22 Nov 1871

Notes


Matthias Stirnimann, the founder of our Lucerne line, was one of those numerous farmer sons who, whether of their own choice or forced by circumstances, left their father's hold, moved to the city, learned a trade here and after years more determined and often more reluctant Build his own existence at work. Matthias Stirnimann's home was Neuenkirch... Matthias' youth was overshadowed by the untimely death of his mother, who died on April 2, 1804 at the age of only thirty as a result of the birth of their first and only child. On May 30, 1808, the young widower led Maria Barbara Zurkirchen von Malters to the altar of Malters in the St. Jost pilgrimage chapel in Blatten. This marriage resulted in three sons and three daughters (the youngest of the three sons, Fridolin (m. Elisabeth Honauer), the only one who got married, sold Sitenmoos to a Johann Studerin 1898). As his descendants know to this day, Matthias Stirnimann was trained as a cook at a young age in Lucerne in the Franciscan monastery, commonly known by the people as the Barfüsser, and remained, supposedly until the abolition of the monastery in 1838, as a cook in it Service. The monastery had a well-attended public economy since 1799. Did Matthias leave his father's house because he was the stepson of six half-siblings? We do not know it. On the other hand, we have a presumed explanation as to why he or his father decided to do an apprenticeship and job in the Franciscan monastery in Lucerne; An uncle of the farmer in Sitenmoos, P. Fortunat (+1808), was a monk of the Franciscan monastery in Werthenstein, which, together with its mother monastery in Lucerne, had for decades had to defend itself against all conceivable harassment from the state (especially the ban on accepting novices). It is therefore possible that the family in Sitenmoos was no stranger to the monastery in Lucerne either... In 1846 Matthias Stirnimann started his own business. He acquired in Lucerne on Münzgasse, then called Münzgässlein, for a purchase price of 9'550 Gl or Fr. 12'733.33 the wine tavern "To three Swiss", with benefits and damage beginning on August 15, 1846. This is today's restaurant "Walliser Kanne", Münzgasse. The front toMünzgasse has retained its original, neat appearance to this day. The house, which was called "Zur Taube" before 1833, has numerous memories of historical events and personalities dating back to the 14th century. For the first time the house "To three Swiss" made a name for itself about the borders of Lucerne and even Switzerland in connection with the notorious cellar or crook trial of 1825/26. The Lucerne mayor Franz Xaver Keller had mysteriously drowned in the Reuss in 1816. Years later, the rumor wasspread that a gang of crooks hired by Keller's political opponents had been in the wine tavern "To three Swiss" met secretly and there decided to plunge the Schultheissen into the Reuss. The landlord was able to prove that the people suspected of the murder were never his guests.

Matthias Stirnimann, the founder of our Lucerne line, was one of those numerous farmer sons who, whether of their own choice or forced by circumstances, left their father's hold, moved to the city, learned a trade here and after years more determined and often more reluctant Build his own existence at work. Matthias Stirnimann's home was Neuenkirch...

Matthias' youth was overshadowed by the untimely death of his mother, who died on April 2, 1804 at the age of only thirty as a result of the birth of their first and only child. On May 30, 1808, the young widower led Maria Barbara Zurkirchen von Malters to the altar of Malters in the St. Jost pilgrimage chapel in Blatten. This marriage resulted in three sons and three daughters (the youngest of the three sons, Fridolin (m. Elisabeth Honauer), the only one who got married, sold Sitenmoos to a Johann Studerin 1898).

As his descendants know to this day, Matthias Stirnimann was trained as a cook at a young age in Lucerne in the Franciscan monastery, commonly known by the people as the Barfüsser, and remained, supposedly until the abolition of the monastery in 1838, as a cook in it Service. The monastery had a well-attended public economy since 1799. Did Matthias leave his father's house because he was the stepson of six half-siblings? We do not know it. On the other hand, we have a presumed explanation as to why he or his father decided to do an apprenticeship and job in the Franciscan monastery in Lucerne; An uncle of the farmer in Sitenmoos, P. Fortunat (+1808), was a monk of the Franciscan monastery in Werthenstein, which, together with its mother monastery in Lucerne, had for decades had to defend itself against all conceivable harassment from the state (especially the ban on accepting novices). It is therefore possible that the family in Sitenmoos was no stranger to the monastery in Lucerne either...

In 1846 Matthias Stirnimann started his own business. He acquired in
Lucerne on Münzgasse, then called Münzgässlein, for a purchase price of 9'550 Gl or Fr. 12'733.33 the wine tavern "To three Swiss", with benefits and damage beginning on August 15, 1846. This is today's restaurant "Walliser Kanne", Münzgasse. The front toMünzgasse has retained its original, neat appearance to this day. The house, which was called "Zur Taube" before 1833, has numerous memories of historical events and personalities dating back to the 14th century. For the first time the house "To three Swiss" made a name for itself about the borders of Lucerne and even Switzerland in connection with the notorious cellar or crook trial of 1825/26. The Lucerne mayor Franz Xaver Keller had mysteriously drowned in the Reuss in 1816. Years later, the rumor wasspread that a gang of crooks hired by Keller's political opponents had been in the wine tavern
"To three Swiss" met secretly and there decided to plunge the Schultheissen into the Reuss. The landlord was able to prove that the people suspected of the murder were never his guests.

Sources

Description	Page	Quality	Information	Evidence
Verband Der Familien Stirnimann	No.6	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know

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