Leonz Stirnimann ⁶⁸

  General Notes:

FROM Denkmalpflege im Kanton Luzern 1988

Whether the two sons of the deceased Hans, Peter (1667-1741) and Leonz (1671-1741) managed the farm together or separately, is not well-known. Surely the farm was legally not divided, and the two families each lived in their own house. A legal division of the farm into the Untere (lower) and the Obere (upper) Rot was made by their sons, Joseph and Peter in the year 1741 after the death of their fathers.

In the tax rolls from 1691 to 1702 the brother Peter is always mentioned alone. Perhaps because it was up to the older to assume casual control. The farm in the Rot covered at that time 160 Jucharten country. But the two farmers paid 420 guldens per year duty and for Alp Schattsiten in Romoos another 150 guldens. After a land sale in 1695 on the Eglisberg of approx. 10 to 12 Jucharten for 2276 guldens they had to pay out an annual tax of 605 guldens altogether.40 In accordance with the mentioned tax rolls the farm in the Rot was at this time the third largest farm and of a total of 218 taxpayers, Peter (with Leonz) was the fourth largest taxpayer of the village Ruswil.

The building of the large upper expansion of the old family house are of special importance for farm history in the Rot in the year 1705 by Leonz Stirnimann (1671-1741). He was married in 1691 to Elizabeth Bühlmann and had eight children.

His older brother Peter married Anna Maria Steiner von Grossdietwil in 1688 and they had five children. Peter must have built a new house beside an old on the upper Rot at approximately the same time as brother Leonz.

The fact that the large wealth of these two farmers in the Rot was not unlimited is shown by the fact that in the 18th century there was established for the first time two mortgages on the farm in the Rot. By Peter and Leonz three mortgage letters each were received from 1718 to 1729. One of the two mortgages which Peter had established for the value of 3000 guldens each in 1718 and had to pay 150 guldens annually, reads on Squire Jost Batt Franz Balthasar and is an example of the financial dependency of many farmers on the urban Patriziat, since the farmer war.

Peter calls himself in the mortgages he established as residing "in the Oberen Rot." His farm borders on the possession of brother Leonz. Leonz notes in his mortgage letters that his farm "in the Roth" his brother borders.

It would be quite possible that both the brothers established the mortgages for the building of their new houses.

The daughter of Peter, Anna Maria (1692-1767), married in 1731 Hans Jakob Hüsler in Huprächtigen. The exceptionally built, largely baroque farmhouse (1734) on the today's farm Mittler-Huprächtigen has therefore, not coincidentally, a large similarity with the farmhouse in Unter Rot.

Leonz married Elisabeth Büöhlmann on 9 Jan 1691 in Ruswil, Luzern, Switzerland.¹⁰