Vogtei Rheintal

The Bailiwick Rhine Valley was from 1491 to 1798 a Common rule of the Old Confederacy in today's Eastern Switzerland ( Canton of St. Gallen). The Bailiwick of today included the following municipalities:

History

The Alemannic colonization of the lower Rhine Valley took place in the early Middle Ages. In the Frankish empire the Rhine Valley has been assigned to the county district Rheingau between Monstein and Hirschsprung, which was first mentioned in 891. Only the area between Lake Constance and Mont stone belonged to the Thurgau. In the Middle Ages the power relationships in the Rhine Valley were extremely fragmented. On various occasions German kings, bishops of Constance, abbots of St. Gallen and the Counts of Bregenz and Will Berg fought around the area. Finally, the Counts of Berg- Heiligenberg 1348 could unite the country's sovereignty in the whole Rhine Valley for the first time.

As in 1363, the Habsburgs acquired the County of Tyrol, they also began gradually control of the Rhine Valley to win. Until 1395 they could bring by purchase and conquest of the entire Rhine Valley under their control. Only the defeat against the Appenzeller in the Battle of the shock in 1405 brought this to an end. Marbach, Berneck Altstaetten and allied themselves with the people of Appenzell in the "covenant if the lake " in which the country people in the Rhine Valley of Rheineck were to Kriessern united together for the first time. After the defeat at Bregenz in 1408 Appenzell, the old men returned. Short term came the Rhine Valley in 1424 largely in the hands of the Toggenburg. After they died it came to the Old Zurich War of the extensive inheritance, in the course of the Rhine Valley, Appenzell with Rheineck 1445 completely conquered.

Appenzell was indeed the Rhine Valley in 1464 claim against the claims of the Abbey of St. Gall, as a result of the war to the Rorschach monastery they had to break it but the four screen locations of the Abbey, Zurich, Glarus, Schwyz and Lucerne, assign. This was the bailiwick of the Rhine valley to a commons dominion within the Old Confederacy. 1491, the four places of Uri, Unterwalden and train in the co-regency of Vogei Rhine Valley, Appenzell in 1500 and 1712 Bern. In the courtyard Kriessern ruled with even the Prince Abbot of St. Gallen.

1528 decided to Rheintaler acceptance of the Reformation, but remained Catholic minorities. Only Altstaetten, Widnau, Kriessern and Ruthi were mostly Catholic. The Peace of 1712 the lengthy faith disputes an end was put to the Bailiwick and expected to " parity " zone of Confederation. This means that both religions were equally co-exist.

In 1798, the Rhine Valley Vogei declared itself independent. On March 26, 1798 a constitution was to a rural community in Altstaetten decided and chosen a Magistrate and a district administrator. The independence was short-lived, as early as May was the inclusion of the Rhine valley in the canton Santis. Only Ruthi and Lienz came to Canton Linth. After the founding of the canton of St. Gallen 1803, the Rhine Valley of Staad made ​​to a district Lienz. The main locations were months as Altstaetten and Rheineck. 1831 a division in the districts of Lower and Upper Rhine Valley has been made. Capital of the Upper Rhine Valley was Altstaetten, those of the lower Rhine valley alternated between Rheineck and Berneck. The two districts were combined in 2003 as part of a revision of the constitution to the constituency Rhine valley in the canton of St. Gallen. The municipality of Thal was made a constituency Rorschach.

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