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Leonz (P. Fortunat) Stirnimann

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Parents

Father	Date of Birth	Mother	Date of Birth
Joseph Peter Stirnimann	07 Feb 1694	Anna Maria Schwegler

Person Events

Event Type	Date	Place	Description
Birth	05 Nov 1733
Death	12 Aug 1808	Werthenstein, Switzerland

Notes


FROM DR. JOSEPH STIRNIMANN Pater Fortunat Stirnimann (1733-18O8), Franziskaner des Klosters Werthenstein Like the Benediktiner Jost Stirnimann, also the Franziskaner Fortunat Stirnimaun perceived the light of the world in the oldest parent house of the family in Rot. The fourth and last son of Peter Stirnimann and Anna Maria Schweg1er of Wolhusen was baptized on 5 November 1733 in the parish church Sursee with the name Leonz. In the year 1758, Leonz entered into the Franziskaner cloister Werthenstein. The novice received the name Fortunat. Werthenstein built on a high rock and its mother-God-church were in the 18th century, next to Einsiedeln, of the most visits of rampart trips towns of Switzerland. This would be allowed to be the explanation why the farmer son in Rot decided on the Franziskaner-cloister Werthenstein. We are instructed incidentally well of the different financial achievements and assurance of the father of the novice vis-á-vis the cloister. The different contributions, above all the dowry showed for the prosperity and the generosity of the farmer in Rot. This obligated himself in an sales contract made with the cloister to receive the expenses during the Noviziats of his son for his livelihood, to give the son to Profess a new order robe and to pay the trip money for an at best removal into another cloister, and - the important assurance -the cloister after the Profess of the son as to deliver out of-tax a certain legal letter in the sum of 1200 guilders in Lucerne currency, of which the monk Fortunat as long as he would live, annually 10 guilders should receive. To deliver himself further obligated the father, the cloister immediately after the Noviziat or some years a bed including mattress, three head pillows, two suits and four linen cloths. In addition to the Guardian and four monks, also Peter Stirnimann, the father of the novice, this sales contract, a proof signed that also he was able to read and write, for a Steuerleger at that time obviously a basic assumption. Peter Stirnimann erected this legal device in the value of 1200 guilders "the -worthy Mr. fathers Franziskaneren to Werthenstein" on 24 February 1760 on his farm Unter Rot. The sum of 1200 guilders corresponds approximately to a current value of ca. 200,000 Swiss francs and might one of the highest if the highest dowry be been not, that received the cloister Werthenstein ever of a novice. Pater Fortunat was spiritual in the cloister of the Franziskanerinnen in Bremgarten. From 1792 to 1807, he accommodated this service in the sister's cloister in Muotathal. In the year 1799, this Bergtal was the scene of the warlike discussions between theFrenchman on the one hand and the Austrians and Russians on the other hand. With the population of the valley, also the cloister, in which 400 caught and wounded soldiers were quartered, was located after the war in largest need. This caused P. Fortunat to gather a month long in the Luzembiet for the cloister money and groceries. P. Fortunat died on 12 August 1808 in Werthenstein as a Senior of the cloister in the 75th year of life and became Innenhof of the cloisters, to the left of the churches portal site. Note also the detailed article about P. Fortunat Stirnimann in the circular Nr. 16 (1992), S. 3ff. It was of a large rarity that two became or even three sons of the same family priests or into an order a fraten. This was the case in the fore generation two Kapuzinern P. Karl and P. Sigismund Stirnimann and in the Benediktiner P. Leodegar Stirnimann. All three were sons of the husbands Jost Stirnimann and Elisabeth Weber in Neuenkirch. Jost Stirnimann, born on the 19th July 1807 in Mitelarig in Nottwill as a son of the couple Joseph Stirnimann and Agatha Hüsler, married on 10 January 1837 in the parishchurch Sursee Elisabeth Weber, the daughter born on 24 March 1818 in Neuenkirch of the couple Kaspar Weber and Ellsabeth Wüest. Jost Stirnimann took his wife's residential in Neuenkirch. The original shoemaker developed himself through the years to a adroit and wealthy leather merchant., Of the 10 sons a farmer, a court clerk and proprietor in Sempach, one Postillon in Sempach, four was became exercised the occupation of a businessman. Of the three order men in the following, the speech is.

FROM DR. JOSEPH STIRNIMANN

Pater Fortunat Stirnimann (1733-18O8), Franziskaner des Klosters Werthenstein
Like the Benediktiner Jost Stirnimann, also the Franziskaner Fortunat Stirnimaun perceived the light of the world in the oldest parent house of the family in Rot. The fourth and last son of Peter Stirnimann and Anna Maria Schweg1er of Wolhusen was baptized on 5 November 1733 in the parish church Sursee with the name Leonz. In the year 1758, Leonz entered into the Franziskaner cloister Werthenstein. The novice received the name Fortunat. Werthenstein built on a high rock and its mother-God-church were in the 18th century, next to Einsiedeln, of the most visits of rampart trips towns of Switzerland. This would be allowed to be the explanation why the farmer son in Rot decided on the Franziskaner-cloister Werthenstein.

We are instructed incidentally well of the different financial achievements and assurance of the father of the novice vis-á-vis the cloister. The different contributions, above all the dowry showed for the prosperity and the generosity of the farmer in Rot. This obligated himself in an sales contract made with the cloister to receive the expenses during the Noviziats of his son for his livelihood, to give the son to Profess a new order robe and to pay the trip money for an at best removal into another cloister, and - the important assurance -the cloister after the Profess of the son as to deliver out of-tax a certain legal letter in the sum of 1200 guilders in Lucerne currency, of which the monk Fortunat as long as he would live, annually 10 guilders should receive. To deliver himself further obligated the father, the cloister immediately after the Noviziat or some years a bed including mattress, three head pillows, two suits and four linen cloths. In addition to the Guardian and four monks, also Peter Stirnimann, the father of the novice, this sales contract, a proof signed that also he was able to read and write, for a Steuerleger at that time obviously a basic assumption. Peter Stirnimann erected this legal device in the value of 1200 guilders "the -worthy Mr. fathers Franziskaneren to Werthenstein" on 24 February 1760 on his farm Unter Rot. The sum of 1200 guilders corresponds approximately to a current value of ca. 200,000 Swiss francs and might one of the highest if the highest dowry be been not, that received the cloister Werthenstein ever of a novice.

Pater Fortunat was spiritual in the cloister of the Franziskanerinnen in Bremgarten. From 1792 to 1807, he accommodated this service in the sister's cloister in Muotathal. In the year 1799, this Bergtal was the scene of the warlike discussions between theFrenchman on the one hand and the Austrians and Russians on the other hand. With the population of the valley, also the cloister, in which 400 caught and wounded soldiers were quartered, was located after the war in largest need. This caused P. Fortunat to gather a month long in the Luzembiet for the cloister money and groceries. P. Fortunat died on 12 August 1808 in Werthenstein as a Senior of the cloister in the 75th year of life and became Innenhof of the cloisters, to the left of the churches portal site.

Note also the detailed article about P. Fortunat Stirnimann in the circular Nr. 16 (1992), S. 3ff.

It was of a large rarity that two became or even three sons of the same family priests or into an order a fraten. This was the case in the fore generation two Kapuzinern P. Karl and P. Sigismund Stirnimann and in the Benediktiner P. Leodegar Stirnimann. All three were sons of the husbands Jost Stirnimann and Elisabeth Weber in Neuenkirch. Jost Stirnimann, born on the 19th July 1807 in Mitelarig in Nottwill as a son of the couple Joseph Stirnimann and Agatha Hüsler, married on 10 January 1837 in the parishchurch Sursee Elisabeth Weber, the daughter born on 24 March 1818 in Neuenkirch of the couple Kaspar Weber and Ellsabeth Wüest. Jost Stirnimann took his wife's residential in Neuenkirch. The original shoemaker developed himself through the years to a adroit and wealthy leather merchant., Of the 10 sons a farmer, a court clerk and proprietor in Sempach, one Postillon in Sempach, four was became exercised the occupation of a businessman. Of the three order men in the following, the speech is.

Sources

Description	Page	Quality	Information	Evidence
Verband derFamilien Stirnimann/Stirnemann	Rundbrief, Nr.25, Ruswil - März 1999	Don't know	Primary	Don't know

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