Romanshorneramt
The Romanshorner Office was until 1798 an office district in the top office of the old landscape of St. Gallen monastery state in which a part of the canton of Thurgau courts was summarized. It included the five lower courts of Romanshorn , Kesswil , Dozwil , Herrenhof and Zuben . Salmsach also belonged to the Romanshorn court , where Abbot Ulrich Rösch was able to buy back court and bailiwick rights in 1471. The Bishop of Constance but remained there until 1748/49 feudal lord .
In the places in the Sanctuary of St.Gallen in Thurgau, the monastery was in a different legal position than in the Prince's Land of St.Gallen . The abbey only had individual rights such as team rights, collature rights and lower jurisdiction , although the legal status of the abbot was not the same in all Thurgau towns.
The highest court and appeal instance of the Rorschacheramt was the Palatinate Court . Together with the Landshofmeisteramt , the Oberbergeramt and the Rorschacheramt , the Romanshorneramt formed the Oberamt of the prince's old landscape.
literature
- 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)
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Müller: The legal sources of the canton of St. Gallen. Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau, 1974. (PDF; 14.5 MB)
- ↑ Lorenz Hollenstein: Rorschacheramt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .