Romanshorneramt

The St. Gall monastery state 1468–1798

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

1. ^ Walter Müller: The legal sources of the canton of St. Gallen. Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau, 1974. (PDF; 14.5 MB)
2. ↑ Lorenz Hollenstein: Rorschacheramt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .