Hans Jakob Stirnimann ⁶⁸

  General Notes:

God parents were: Johann Ruffli & Verena Steiner.

FROM Denkmalpflege im Kanton Luzern 1988

The third son of Peter Stirnimann and Adelheid Bircher was Hans-Jakob (1605?-1670). Probably since his first marriage with Barbara Bucher in 1630, he was a farmer in Meienberg, 1.5 km north of the Rot, a removed farm with approx. 80 Jucharten country.27

Since he was the only one of the three brothers with male descendants he was given the paternal transfer to the farm in the Rot. When this occurred, is not well-known. Probably Hans Jakob returned for the death of his brother, Hans (1647) on the farm in the Rot. In accordance with a diary entry of Pater Jost Stirnimann in the monastery Muri, Hans-Jakob lived there with his family (three sons and three daughters) in February 1654.28

Soon after 1654 his first wife, Barbara Bucher, seems to have died and Hans Jakob married his second wife Margaretha Estermann 1661. This second marriage remained childless.29

In the year 1668, after the death of Peter Stirnimann, the farm Etzenerlen was going to be inherited by his brother Hans Jakob. The Chancellor Beromünster required a tax for this owner change to Hans Jakob, from which a controversy developed, which in the long run the Mayor in Luzern had to decide.30

In the same year 1668 Hans Jakob acquired additionally the farm Huprächtigen in today's municipality Nottwil with 212 Jucharten country and 28 Jucharten forest for 6500 guldens. The purchase was expensive and part for his still only daughter of Elisabeth (1654-1692).31 She married Walter Meyer in the same year, who managed this farm and later controlled casually and a became a judge. Walter Meyer gave a mortgage of his farm to his wife for its value. From this mortgage log we see that Elizabeth Stirnimann kept one loan to her father in the large value of approximately 7815 guldens. With this information the farm Huprächtigen was estimated at 18,200 guldens value by the Court Sergeant and office recorder.32

If one counts the surfaces of the three large farms, those in the possession of Hans-Jakob all together, then a total area results in approximately 197 Hectors33 (approx. 500 acres) converted by approx. 542 Jucharten by to today's values of the number. This very large land property and therefore also very large sales sum for the marrying daughter and later for the son Peter in the monastery Muri show the extraordinary wealth of this farmer on the farm in the Rot.34

Hans Jakob Stirnimann made ready for his death on 30 April 1670, a last mark of himself says, when he took the church last rights in Ruswil and ordered his funeral.

Hans married Barbara Bucher on 18 Aug 1630 in Ruswil, Luzern, Switzerland.¹⁰ (Barbara Bucher died about 1654 in Ruswil, Luzern, Switzerland ¹⁰.)

Hans next married Margaretha Estermann on 17 Oct 1661 in Sursee, Luzern, Switzerland.¹⁰