Sargans Canton
The canton of Sargans was a planned canton at the beginning of the Helvetic Republic in the first semester of 1798. The sources as to whether the canton ever existed are contradictory.
The county of Sargans , until then subject area as common rule of the VIII places , was released on March 5, 1798 into freedom. This area then founded its own canton and held a free rural community on March 22, 1798, where a provisional government was elected. There was no official naming. Today this canton is often referred to as the canton of the former County of Sargans in order to distinguish it from the planned larger canton of Sargans.
In the constitution of the Helvetic Republic of April 12, 1798, enforced by France , the canton of Sargans was designated as one of the 22 Swiss cantons. However, this constitution was not accepted by the cantons of Central and Eastern Switzerland.
On May 4, 1798, the French government commissioner Rapinat reorganized the cantonal areas and the county of Sargans was added to the new canton of Linth . Sargans was part of the canton of Linth for the rest of the Helvetic Republic . Through mediation in 1803 the entire former county of Sargans came to the canton of St. Gallen .
geography
The canton planned in the provisional constitution consisted of the following areas:
- Uznach county
- Lordship of Windegg (Gaster)
- City of Rapperswil
- Sargans county
- Werdenberg county
- Office Gams ( Hohensax )
- Lordship of Sax-Forstegg
- Reign of the Rhine Valley
- March (former subject area of Schwyz)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Constitution of the Helvetic Republic of April 12, 1798 (under 18.)
- ↑ JJ Blummer: Canton Glarus in the Revolution of 1798 . In the yearbook of the historical association of the Canton of Glarus. Book 3, 1865, pp. 67-96.