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The titulary suburb described the intermittent " chair " of a canton or canton capital within the Swiss Confederation until 1848. A suburb or more of them also had the Hanseatic League.

Subdivision in the old Confederation to 1798

In the old Confederation was until 1798 that location ( state, canton ), which convened a hearing held and this was in the chair, referred to as a suburb. In the 15th century the city of Zurich actually sat through as a suburb of the Swiss Confederation, which is reflected to this day by the first place in Zurich in the official list of the cantons. The position of Zürich was particularly strengthened by his chairmanship of the annual hearing held to approve the annual accounts of the County of Baden. After the Reformation and the religious cleavage of the Confederation Lucerne became a suburb of the Catholic cantons. 1798, the Diet, and thus the titulary of the suburb was abolished. The centrally organized Helvetic republic had its capital first in Aarau, then in Lucerne and finally in Bern.

Swiss Suburbs 1803-1848

After the reorganization of Switzerland by Napoleon, the centralist government, the Switzerland was abandoned in favor of a föderalistischeren form in the Act of Mediation in 1803. Instead of the capital Aarau the cities of Zurich, Bern, Lucerne, Fribourg, Solothurn and Basel should be for one year for " suburb of Switzerland ». In the suburb of the annual hearing held by the cantons took place. The respective mayors or Schultheiss the relevant Direktorialkantons chaired the Diet and received the title " Country Ammann of Switzerland ». The firm is the only permanent institution in Switzerland attracted each with all files annually by suburb to suburb. 1815, the selection of the suburbs was concentrated to Zurich, Bern and Lucerne, which were until 1847 for two years instead of one seat of the federal chancellery. 1848 Bern became the seat of the Swiss federal authorities and the de facto capital of Switzerland.

Suburbs of the German Hanseatic League

In the Hanseatic cities were distinguished individual alliances, the so-called " third ". Main suburbs of the entire Hanseatic Lübeck was. Within the Hanseatic League, a distinction the Luebeck - Saxon, Westphalian- Prussian and Livonian towns - gotländisch. Each " third " had a suburb. At the beginning were the Lübeck, Dortmund and Visby.

Obviously, it was advantageous to be the leading city within one-third, because soon there was innerhansische disputes over the division and management of the third. Cologne Dortmund broke into the leadership of the Westphalian- Prussian third, between Visby and Riga, the lead changed hands several times in the Livonian gotländisch - third. The former importance of Lübeck is also evident that the leadership of the city was never attacked in the most powerful Luebeck - Saxon third.