THE BORSINGER CHRONIK

19th GENERATION

 

1 son Joseph Anton and 2 girls from the first marriage and 3 children from Kaspars 2 nd marriage to Carolina Haessig. And from this generation on the family split into the two branches !.BLUME

2.VERENAHOF.
Shall we start with the VERENAHOF Line:

FRANZ JOSEPH (1822-1905) built the new, bigger and more grandious Verenahof where formerly the Half Moon,the Lion and the Verenahof Depandance stood. His sons Eugen and Joseph took over the Verenahof and bought the Limmathof, he retired at the Villa Kreuzliberg. Franz JOSEPH was married to Anna Cordula Rohn,called Nannette,who left us a diary of at least 30 typewritten pages. The Ledergerbers in Baden own this diary,gave it to me, it was written in the old German handwriting and I was able to put it down in my typewriter and it is in full in the 8 Volumes of the Borsinger Chronik edited by my brother Mario and in English translation in my 4 typewritten volumes here, the original I gave back to the Ledergerbers. The diary is very informative, describing the life of Nannette’s and the Borsinger family during a full generation,is written like a novel but too long to include it here and I will try to bring out the essential points.

Franz Joseph (1822-1905) after finishing his school in Baden went to the Jesuirt school in Fribourg for further education and continued his education until 1842 when he was 20 it was one year after his fathers death then he moved into the now renovated Verenahof Depandance with is mother.

 
Franz Joseph 1822-1905
Eugen 1886-1906
Ema 1883-1900
 

Joseph Alois Borsinger in 1841 was Mayor of the town and later on became Governor of the district of Baden. As first born he inherited the Blume at the age of 40 and being Mayor he never ran the Hotel but leased it to his stepmother Carlina born Haessig for two years and then sold it to Karl Joseph his stepbrother. On 1/30/1834 he married Maria Anna Margareta Dorer(3/10/1819 -1/30/1834) and they had three children: Caspar Joseph Alois born 12/9/1822 who became an artist and moved to Munich,Germany and had no offsprings, Nannette (4/18/1824) and Wilhelmina 97/6/1826. Joseph Alois being a widower with three children age 12,10 and 8 married the same year Maria Anna Mueller (3/28/1803-12/15/1874) but had no further children.

In 1820 Kaspar-Joseph-Anton-Niklaus Borsinger was married for the second time this time with Lady Carolina Haessig. When Kaspar Borsinger died on March 23. 1841, he left a will for his survivors: To his son out of his first marriage,Joseph Alois, he left the ancestral home to the Blume, to his first son out of his second marriage, Carl Joseph, he left the old house at the “Badhalde”named the “Red Shield”, which he had inherited from his sister, Maria Anna Schneweli. For his youngest son he bequested the guesthouse “Half Moon” in the Big Bath and the adjoining “Loewen” (Lion) He had acquired both houses as well as the Depandance”Verenahof”, which was not yet renovated and was destined to become the widow’s home for his wife. Caspar Borsinger suspected, that there may be an undiscovered thermalwell be neath the Lion or Half Moon, which discovery he did not live to see.
 
 
Annette Rohn

In 1842 Joseph frequently visited Anton Rohn in his drygood store for business matters where he met Nannette In 1844 he discovered the well when he ran into difficulties with his neighbors and again consulted with Anton Rohn.1815 Marriage to Nannette, and they moved into the Depandance from where he supervised te construction of the new Verenahof which opened on June 1,1846 at Pentacost. In August he went to military service in Aarau interrupted by the birth of the firstborn Maria Carolina and he had to return to Aarau after the baptism. In 1847 he was called to arms during the “Sonderbundkrieg”(religious war between the States) together with Karl Borsinger and Alois Rohn (brother in law).Franz got a permanent discharge, medical for shortsightedness. In 1844 the Lion and Half Moon were demolished, Mr. Jeuch was the architect for the new Verenahof, the encasement for the new well had to be done over again because it was not deep enough in view of the uncertainty of shifting the well-level in the entire region (new government regulations). In 1846 his fartherinlaw Anton Rohn bought the Villa Kreuzliberg. After his wife’s death, Anto Rohn now being 70 gave the two vineyards in Wuerenlos and Siggenthal to Alois and Joseph.In 1858 Franz bought the Villa from Anton Rohn for 50 000 Fr. Anton Rohn being too much occupier\d with his sawmill (which later on became the parkett factory). 1869 Government Auction of the cloister, Anton Rohn bought it for 37 130 Fr. and opened it as an orphanage,run by the Menzinger nuns, and it stayed and was supported under the directorship of the Borsingers til the present. Franz Borsinger-Rohn was the president and in 1869 instituted a Grant. In 1900 Joseph Anton Alois (Baucis) Borsinger-Beck took over the presidency and after his death in 1926 Paul Borsinger de Fischer took over. Under his presidency the old “cloister” became obsolite due to the construction of the new Superhigway(National-strasse No 1) and in its place a new Childrenshome was built in Empert above Wettingen. 1873 Franz Joseph made a donation of 10 000Fr for the National Railroad. After he gave the Verenahof over to his sons Eugen and Joseph, he residet at the Villa Kreuzliberg which he had bought from Anton Rohn, and he became City Councilman.