Office Hitzkirch

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The office of Hitzkirch was an administrative unit in the upper free offices until it was incorporated into the canton of Lucerne in 1803. Today the area belongs to the Lucerne office of Hochdorf .

The administrative center had been in Richensee since the times of the Kyburger , but was later moved to Hitzkirch. After the Battle of Sempach (July 9, 1386), the Lucerne population first occupied the southern and in 1415 the northern part of the office. Under the influence of the Bernese commander of the Hitzkirch Order of the Teutonic Order, Hans Albrecht von Mülinen, the office was reformed in 1529. Then Lucerne occupied the office after the Second Kappel War in 1531 and re-Catholicized it.

In 1653 the peasants of the office took part in the peasant war on the side of the rebels . In the course of the Helvetic Republic , the office was assigned to the canton of Baden in 1798 (Sarmenstorf district), which, however, did not please the inhabitants of the office at all. With the dissolution of the canton of Baden in 1803, the office was handed over to the Lucerne residents in exchange for Merenschwand from the canton of Aargau and integrated into the Hochdorf office by them.

literature

  • Fritz Glauser, Jean Jacques Siegrist: The Lucerne parishes and bailiffs: formation of sovereignty, course of bailiff boundaries, description of the parishes . tape 7 . Rex Publishing House, 1977.

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