Rorschacheramt

The St. Gall monastery state 1468–1798

The Rorschacheramt was from the late 15th century to 1798 Office district in the top office of the old landscape of St. Gallen monastery state .

The Rorschacheramt comprised the four lower courts of Rorschach , Goldach , Steinach and Mörschwil . The so-called Reichshof and the six main teams Rorschacherberg , Grub , Eggersriet , Tübach , Altenrhein and, on the right of the Rhine, Gaißau , which has belonged to Austria since 1798, belonged to the Lower Court of Rorschach . The Lower Court of Goldach comprised the main teams of Upper and Lower Goldach and Untereggen . Main teams were places that, unlike the courts, did not have their own openings . In the Rorschacheramt there were also the castles Wartensee and Sulzberg with their own small judicial districts as fiefs of the lower nobility .

The administration of the Rorschacheramt was located in the Mariaberg monastery building.

The main place of the Rorschacheramt was Rorschach. At the head of his administration were a capitular of the St. Gallen monastery as governor in the Mariaberg monastery building and, subordinate to him, the secular Obervogt zu Rorschach, who initially resided in the St. Annaschloss located on the Rorschacherberg, later in the market town on the lake and exercised the imperial bailiff . The highest court and appeal instance of the Rorschacheramt was the Palatinate Court . Together with the Landshofmeisteramt , the Oberbergeramt and the Romanshorneramt , the Rorschacheramt formed the Oberamt of the prince's old landscape.

literature

Lorenz Hollenstein: Rorschacheramt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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