Stöhr family

Dr. Joseph Stöhr was a physician and chemist, who founded a pharmacy in Pinkafõ, Vas megye. After the infamous Trianon Peace Treaty at the end of World War I, Hungary lost more than two-thirds of its territory, and the area known today as Burgenland was given to Austria. Pinkafõ became Pinkenfeld.

Joseph married Maria, daughter of Ignaz Wissinger and Rosa Zaunmüller, in 1822. All their children were baptized in the Catholic church of Pinkafõ, and their godparents were count Nicolas Bathányi and his wife, countess Francisca Széchenyi. (It is likely, that Dr. Stöhr was the family doctor of the Bathányi's.) Their first daughter Rosa is our great-grandmother. In 1862, the 20 year-old Rosa married our great-grandfather Eperjesy Sándor, a widower. His first wife, Tormay Mária, died young, and left two young orphan sons, Béla and Dezsõ. It would be interesting to know how Rosa and Sándor became acquainted. Could it be that Sándor was looking for a nanny for the orphans, hired Rosa, and then fell in love with her - a la "The Sound of Music?"

The Pinkenfeld Apotheke is still owned by the Stöhr family, operated by Joseph's great-grandson Willi Stöhr and his wife Ilse and their children. Their ancestors were buried in the Pinkafeld cemetery, where Joseph Stöhr and Maria Wissinger's headstones still stand.

Photo Album

• A1. Johannes Stehr, b:1782, m. Dorothea Riel;
  • B1. Dr. Josef Stöhr, b:1807, m. Maria Wissinger;
    • C1. Rosa Stöhr, b:1841, d:1898, m. Eperjesy Sándor;  <==  Eperjessy család
    • C2. Mária Stöhr, b:1845, m. Horváth Antal;
    • C3. Emanuel Stöhr, lvd:1855/1928, m. Maria Friedriech;
      • D1. Emanuel Stöhr, b:1904/1984, m. Eleonora Kampits;
        • E1. Willi Stöhr, b:1941, m. Ilse Gödel;
          • F1. Stefan Stöhr, b:1979;