Office Schenkenberg

Wildenstein Castle , seat of the Obervögte von Schenkenberg from 1720 to 1798.

The Bernese offices in Aargau.

Coats of arms of the chief bailiffs from 1447 to 1711, painting by Meinrad Keller (1723).

Coat of arms of Albrecht von Graffenried in the Reformed Church in Densbueren .

The office of Schenkenberg was a bailiff in Aargau in Switzerland .

It was created in 1460 through the occupation of the until then independent Schenkenberg rule by Bern . The von Baldegg family has owned the estate since 1451 and was transformed into a Bernese bailiff and, as Oberamt Schenkenberg, comprised the offices of Thalheim , Densbüren , Veltheim , Bözen , Bözberg , Stilli and Hottwil . The bailiff resided at Schenkenberg Castle in the main town of Thalheim until 1720 and then moved to the nearby Wildenstein Castle near Veltheim.

The office of Schenkenberg was of great strategic importance for the Bernese rule, as it had an important pass, the Bözberg, into the Fricktal , which at that time belonged to Upper Austria . With the conquest of Switzerland by the French, the office of Schenkenberg was dissolved in March 1798.

List of Obervögte zu Schenkenberg (1447 to 1798)

Niklaus von Entlebuch, 1447 Bendicht Gnägi, 1462 Peter von Weingart, 1466 Gilgian von Rümligen, 1470 Peter von Weingart, 1477 Niklaus Brunner , 1486 Gilgian Schöni , 1486 Niklaus von Graffenried, 1492 Bendicht von Weingart, 1498 Conrad Vogt, 1501 Hans Kuttler, 1509 Peter Thormann, 1510 Conrad Vogt, 1513 Hans Bischoff, 1518 Lienhard Willading , 1522 Anthoni Bischoff, 1527 Ullrich Megger, 1529 Hans Archer , 1534 Caspar Kuttler, 1536 Hans (?), 1543 Hans in the Hague, 1546 Niklaus Schoor, 1552

Urs Fetscherin, 1562 Franz Güder, 1565 Heinrich Kohler, 1574 Sebastian Rohr , 1579 Conrad Bickhart, 1585 Peter Freudenreich, 1591 Abraham Amport, 1598 Niklaus Späting , 1610 Bernhard Rohr, 1611 Andres Haller, 1618 Daniel von Werdt, 1620 Hans Reber, 1626 Abraham Tillier , 1632 Hans Berseth , 1638 Abraham Thormann, 1644 Samuel Nöthiger , 1630 Jacob Tribolet, 1656 Albrecht von Graffenried , 1657 Abraham Tillier , 1663 Samuel Thormann, 1669 Beat Ludwig May, 1675

Jacob Bucher, 1681 Johannes Matthey, 1687 Gabriel Bucher , 1693 Bernhard Effinger, 1699 Isaak Steiger , 1703 Franz Ludwig von Graffenried, 1711 Rudolf von Luternau, 1717 Daniel Fellenberg, 1723 Abraham Jenner, 1729 Jacob Dünz, 1730 Johann Ludwig Steiger, 1737 Albrecht Steiger, 1743 Wolfgang Zehender, 1750 Albrecht Anton Dittlinger, 1755 Samuel Haller, 1761 Niklaus Emanuel Tscharner , 1767 Emanuel von Graffenried , 1773 Daniel Fellenberg , 1779 Johann Rudolf Fischer, 1785 Johann Rudolf Bucher, 1791 Vinzenz Sinner, 1797

literature

• Johann Rudolf von Luternau : Necessary and unpredictable report on the prevailing question, whether it would be more useful and useful for the high class to rebuild the dilapidated castle on Schenckenberg. Or to pull the […] Castle […] Wildenstein to yourself? , [1720].
• Hans Jacob Leu : General Helvetian, Eydgenößisches, or Schweitzerisches LEXICON , Volume 16, Zurich, 1760, pages 289 ff. (Google Books)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schenkenberg Castle in Thalheim on swisscastles.ch (last accessed on July 7, 2019).