Sax-Forstegg
The Sax-Forstegg dominion was a historical territory in the St. Gallen Rhine Valley , which existed from the 14th century to 1798. The name is derived from the barons of Sax and Forstegg Castle . It included the present-day community of Sennwald and the hamlet of Lienz in the Altstätten community .
The Sax-Forstegg rulership was created when the old Sax rulership was divided into the Hohensax (Gams) and Frischenberg parts . Originally only the villages Salez and Haag , only Sennwald in 1396 were part of the rule. In 1458 the barons of Sax-Forstegg formed an alliance with the Old Confederation and became citizens of St. Gallen in 1463 and of Zurich in 1486 . Ulrich VII von Sax , a successful military leader on the side of the Confederation in the Swabian War , received a gift from the Confederation Frischenberg and Lienz in 1490. The close connection with Zurich brought about the introduction of the Reformation in the rule, which finally prevailed in 1553. In 1615 the city of Zurich acquired the rule and administered it as an outer bailiwick until 1798.
In 1625, Zurich had Forstegg Castle converted into a bailiff's castle with an armory. After the end of the Old Confederation, the Sax-Forstegg rule came first to the canton of Linth , and in 1803 to the canton of St. Gallen .
Web links
- The legal sources of the Werdenberg region: County Werdenberg and Herrschaft Wartau, Freiherrschaft Sax-Forstegg and Herrschaft Hohensax-Gams [1]