Oberbergeramt

The St. Gall monastery state 1468–1798

The Oberbergeramt or Gossauer Amt was an administrative district in the Oberamt der Alte Landschaft of the St. Gallen monastery state from 1491 to 1798 .

The Oberbergeramt comprised the lower courts of Gossau , Oberdorf, Andwil , Niederwil- Gebhardschwil, Ober arnegg- Neuandwil, Waldkirch and in Thurgau Sitterdorf . The Sitterdorfer were evidently rebellious subjects towards the abbot, who made interventions by the confederates necessary several times . In contrast to the people in the princes' country , they were allowed to practice their religion freely.

The chief bailiff of the Gossau office resided at Oberberg Castle near Gossau until 1790.

The residence of the abbot's upper bailiffs was Oberberg Castle near Gossau, built in the first half of the 13th century, from 1491 to 1790 , then until 1798 the later Gasthaus Ochsen in Gossau.

The Vogt of the Oberbergeramt supervised the communities, checked the church accounts, held community meetings and was the investigative authority and chairman of the court. He was responsible for executing fines and fines and enforced moral mandates from the 17th century.

literature

• Cornel Dora: Oberbergeramt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  This article is largely based on the entry in the Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS), which, according to the HLS's usage information, is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution - Distribution under the same conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Walter Müller: The legal sources of the canton of St. Gallen. Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau, 1974. (PDF; 14.5 MB)
2. ↑ 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)
3. ↑ Oberbergeramt. On the website of the city of Gossau, accessed on March 13, 2020.