Peter Stirnimann^[1]

1534 -

• Name	Peter Stirnimann
  Birth	1534
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	20800094	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	27 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Heinrich Stirnimann,   b. Bef 1466, Zofingen,,,,Switzerland d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F1264	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family
  Children	1. Barbara Stirnimann   2. Ulrich Stirnimann   3. Heinrich Stirnimann,   b. 1569, Verm. Pfaffnau,,, d. 1592, Luthern,,, (Age 23 years)
  Family ID	35469527	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Oct 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Dr. Joseph Stirnimann speculated that Peter Stirnimann came to the Lucern area around 1530 as a result of the settlement of the Reformation wars as a land trade from the protestant areas to the Catholic area. Peter Stirnimann is documented as the owner of the Witelingen farm near Pfaffnau for the period from 1534 to 1548. At the time mentioned, the Witelingen farm comprised 30 Wiesland workers, 150 Jucharten fields and pastures and was a fiefdom of the Cistercian monastery of St. Urban, to which the farmer had to pay the annual taxes stipulated in the arable land. In 1534 Peter Stirnimann had a legal dispute with the monastery because of the tithe, which the monastery wrongly claimed according to the fiefdom's statements. Court of Willisau decided the dispute in favor of the farmer. The conflict with the monastery is probably the explanation for why Peter Stirnimann was the only fief of his family in Witelingen.

  
  

• Sources

  [51548827] Verband Der Familien Stirnimann, No. 10.