Johann (Hans) Stirnimann ⁶⁸

  General Notes:

FROM Denkmalpflege im Kanton Luzern 1988

Of the three sons of Hans Jakob the elder Sebastian and the younger Hans (Johann) take over with their families the large farm: Sebastian the farm Etzenerlen and Hans the farm in the Rot.

Son Peter (1654-1706), who as Pater Jost, went to the monastery Muri after the death of his father Jakob (1670), received when he professed as monk the amount of 5000 guldens in 1673 from his two brothers Sebastian and Johann (Hans), who had divided the property left to them by their father.

Peter, as Pater Jost, who was a twin brother to Elizabeth, has written a diary in the monastery which was preserved. The diary does not only contain a quantity of events from the life of his parents brothers, sisters and relatives in the Rot, but is also considered an important document to the building history of the monastery Muri from 1695 to 1697.

Hans Stirnimann (approx. 1633?-1675) married Elizabeth Zimmermann in 1661. Hans died very early during a pilgrimage to Rome in 1675 and left the family with five children under age. Therefore his brother Sebastian and his brother-in-law Walter Meyer leased the farm in the Rot to Alp Schattsiten in Romoos first then to Jöri Tobmann for a rent of 780 guldens and later to Augustin Bühlmann for 670 guldens annually.

In a record of the court from 1 September 1677 the inventory and division of the assets of Hans are recorded. His fortune amounted to approximately 16,647 guldens. His sons Peter and Leonz received 4350 guldens each, the three daughters 2600 guldens each.

His daughter Katharina married Joseph Schmildli, later the Court Sergeant, and the daughter Rosina married German Wüest. She later became the nurse of the village Ruswil.

Johann married Elisabeth Zimmermann, daughter of Peter Zimmermann and Anna Stoll, on 17 Oct 1661 in Sursee, Luzern, Switzerland.¹⁰ (Elisabeth Zimmermann was born in Schenkon, Switzerland ¹⁰.)