Basement office
An area in the Bremgarten district of the Swiss canton of Aargau is known as a basement office .
It lies between Affoltern am Albis , Bremgarten and the Reuss . Here are the five municipalities of Ober - and Unterlunkhofen , Arni , Islisberg and Jonen - where the Jonenbach flows into the Reuss - 2/3 of the former village of Werd, as well as the Litzihof, the Hof am Fahr and the Obschlag and Mörgeler estates. Essentially, it is the former flood plain. The drainage eaves, the «receiving water», of the Knonauer - und Kelleramt is the Reuss. At Unterlunkhofen there are still old courses, horseshoe lakes , river islands, floodplain forests, bank swamps and strips of reeds around the Flachsee .
The southern part of the Niederamt, which formerly belonged to the city of Zurich, is also counted as part of the basement office (the lower offices or the sub-office). Until 1798, the Niederamt of the Kelleramt officially included Oberwil, Lieli, Oberberikon, Südzufikon (2 houses), as well as the Litzibuch, Huserhof and Gaisshof farms. Here the city of Bremgarten exercised the lower jurisdiction, the city of Zurich the higher.
history
The Kelnhof , the forerunner of the cellar office, was first mentioned in a document in 694 when a priest from Lunchunft (Lunkhofen) donated his court to the newly founded St. Leodegar monastery in Lucerne . Around the year 758, Pippin the Younger gave the Kelnhof to the Murbach monastery in Alsace . In 1291 Rudolf I von Habsburg bought the Kelnhof. After the Kelnhof was administratively part of the Freiamt Affoltern , twenty years later it formed its own office, the so-called Kelleramt. The high jurisdiction remained with the Freiamt Affoltern. This did not play a role for the time being, as the Habsburgs united all rulership rights in their hands.
The lower jurisdiction over the cellar office came from 1410 to 1522 as a pledge from the Habsburgs, together with the lower office, to the then Habsburg city of Bremgarten. When the city of Zurich acquired the Freiamt Affoltern in 1415 on the occasion of the conquest of Aargau by the Confederation, it took over the sovereign rights from the Habsburgs, including high jurisdiction over the cellar office. The lower jurisdiction remained in the hands of the city of Bremgarten, which is why the cellar office had to return to the Catholic faith together with Bremgarten in 1532 after the Kappel Wars . In 1797, the city of Bremgarten showed wise foresight when it sold its rights to the village communities a year before the old rulers collapsed.
After the conquest of Switzerland by the French and the proclamation of the Helvetic Republic in 1798, the cellar office was dissolved and the four communities Ober- and Unterlunkhofen, Jonen and Arni-Islisberg were created . These initially belonged to the short-lived Canton of Baden and in 1803 came to the Canton of Aargau; however, the residents initially preferred a connection to Zug or Zurich . In 1981 the communities Arni and Islisberg emerged from the separation from Arni-Islisberg.
Web links
- Anton Wohler: cellar office. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .