[1] Stiehle was born in Dächingen on 1 June 1829 in a peasant family, eleventh of seventeen children.
He worked as a cabinet maker and a blacksmith before in 1850 he travelled to Téterchen in Alsace where he was accepted to the Congregation of the Redemptorist Fathers.
In 1871, after France had lost the war, the Redemptorist were expelled from Alsace and Lorraine, and Stiehle had to move to Pérouse near Belfort.
After working in France for a long time, in 1873, he was tasked with the construction of a church and a monastery of the Congregation in Cuenca, and he arrived to the city on 2 May that year.
Originally, Stiehle was born in the garden of San Alfonso Church in Cuenca, which he designed himself.