Thirteen Old Places

The Thirteen Ancient Places and the area they directly dominated in the 18th century

Scheme of the structure of the old Confederation in the 18th century

The Thirteen Places of the Swiss Confederation, engraving from 1572

The Thirteen Old Places were the cantons of Switzerland that formed the Old Confederation from 1513 ( when Appenzell joined ) to 1798 (the beginning of the Helvetic Republic ) .

Member cantons of the alliance

The thirteen places were (the order corresponds to the historical count; the three suburbs in advance. In brackets the years of the corresponding alliances):

City of Zurich (1351)

City and Republic of Bern (1353)

City of Lucerne (1332)

Country of Uri (1291)

State of Schwyz (1291)

Land Unterwalden ( Ob- and Nidwalden ) (1291)

City and Country Zug (1352)

State of Glarus (1352/86)

City of Freiburg (1481), a community since 1454

City of Solothurn (1481), a locality since 1353

City of Schaffhausen (1501), a locality since 1454

City of Basel (1501)

Land of Appenzell (1513), a locality since 1411

The parts of the Swiss Confederation that were not equal were not counted: the assigned places , the subject areas of the individual places and the common lordships .

Emergence

At the end of the era of the Eight Old Places , there was the Stans Decree , which regulated the conflict within the Confederation that had arisen between the provincial and city centers around the accession of Solothurn and Freiburg. The subsequent expansion of the Confederation led to the Thirteen Old Places.