Sebastian Stirnimann-Bühler, who inherited the farm Saal from his father Jakob Stirnimann-Eggenschwiler, was the most important and best-known representative of his family in the Ruswil office of his time. Like several other of his relatives, he first served the public as a tax fighter, was a judge and then, for decades until his death, an official father, i.e. poor worker. He is constantly encountered in the validity and purchase letters, children's bailiffs and, above all, division protocols as an official appraiser of land, judge, witness, guardian, poor man and brotherhood nurse. In 1781 Sebastian Stirnimann was appointed by the parish to the committee of four, which prepared the new building of today's Ruswil parish church, which was built between 1782-93 and brought Niklaus Purtschert of Pfaffnau, the most important church architect at the time in Lucerne and Central Switzerland, to Ruswil. Sebastian Stirnimann (whose baptism the pastor forgot to enter in the baptismal register) had been married to Anna Maria Bühler (Bühler}, who very much probably came from Menznau. |