Office of Kasteln

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Kasteln Castle , seat of the governors of Kasteln from 1732 to 1798
The Bernese offices in Aargau

The office of Kasteln was a bailiff in the Bernese Aargau in Switzerland .

In 1732, Bern acquired the rule of Kasteln for 90,000 thalers from the heirs of General Johann Ludwig von Erlach in order to reduce the number of court lords and to expand and round off the area directly under him. The bailiwick comprised the villages of Auenstein, Oberflachs, Schinznach and Villnachern, which were administered by twelve bailiffs until 1794. The city council of Bern appointed a bailiff.

List of governors to casteln

  • 1732 Emanuel Lerber
  • 1739 Johann Franz Zehender
  • 1742 Rudolf von Mülinen
  • 1743 Abraham Gruber
  • 1751 Gabriel Morlot
  • 1756 Michael Wagner
  • 1764 Heinrich Emanuel Steiger
  • 1770 Ludwig Ougspurger
  • 1776 Bernhard von Diesbach
  • 1782 Christian Ludwig Herport
  • 1788 Gottlieb Emanuel Wagner
  • 1794 Johann Franz Fischer

literature

  • Johann Müller: The Aargau. Its political, legal, cultural and moral history. Zurich / Aarau 1870/1871 ( Google Books ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Müller 1870, p. 233.
  2. ^ Müller: The Aargau. 1870, pp. 233, 411.