Landshofmeisteramt

The St. Gall monastery state 1468–1798

The Landshofmeisteramt was an administrative district in the Upper Office of the Old Landscape of the St. Gallen Monastery State . It comprised the so-called court court with the main teams Straubenzell , Gaiserwald , Bernhardzell , Lömmenschwil , Wittenbach , Berg and Rotmonten , the lower courts Tablat and Muolen as well as the four Thurgau lower courts Sommeri , Hagenwil , Hefenhofen and Roggwil .

The court court was particularly closely linked to the monastery, had no lower court of its own and had to do without an opening . The heads of the seven main teams were not ammen , but captains appointed by the monastery .

At the head of the Landshofmeisteramt was the Abbot Hofmeister . This office developed from that of the court master and was first mentioned in 1474 under Abbot Ulrich Rösch . From the middle of the 17th century the Hofmeister was called Landshofmeister. He was the first minister of the abbot with government and judicial functions as well as diplomatic tasks such as representation at the Diet .

The Landshofmeister resided in Straubenzell in Waldegg Castle not far from the Tröckneturm , the high court met in St. Fiden . Waldegg Castle, which no longer exists today, consisted of a castle with several apartments and a vaulted cellar, a chapel and a double barn.

The Landshofmeisteramt existed until the abbey was abolished in 1805.

literature

Lorenz Hollenstein: Landshofmeisteramt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Stephan Staub: Jus Statutarium veteris Territorii Principalis Monasterii Sancti Galli. A contribution to the legal history of the monastery and canton of St. Gallen Dissertation No. 1043 at the University of St. Gallen , 1988 (PDF; 4.8 MB)
↑ Marcel Mayer: Straubenzell. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
^ Werner Vogler: Old Landscape (SG). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
^ History. On the website of the Tröckneturm Foundation, accessed on March 13, 2020

[Staub-1] Stephan Staub: Jus Statutarium veteris Territorii Principalis Monasterii Sancti Galli. A contribution to the legal history of the monastery and canton of St. Gallen Dissertation No. 1043 at the University of St. Gallen , 1988 (PDF; 4.8 MB)

[2] Marcel Mayer: Straubenzell. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

[3] Werner Vogler: Old Landscape (SG). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

[4] History. On the website of the Tröckneturm Foundation, accessed on March 13, 2020