Thurlinden
From the Middle Ages to 1798, the Thurlinden free court was a sacrilege or lower court in Thurgau and in the neighboring Toggenburg community of Kirchberg .
Thurlinden comprised numerous free farms scattered around Wil SG in a territory claimed by various rulers , which stretched from Bussnang to Kirchberg in Toggenburg and to Fischingen , among others. a. in Almen Berg ⊙ , Bifang ⊙ , Geftenau ⊙ , Greutensberg ⊙ , coarse stream ⊙ , Hagenbuch ⊙ , Hagenwil ⊙ , Metzgersbuhwil ⊙ , Puppikon ⊙ , Remensberg ⊙ , Rothenhausen , Ruedenwil ⊙ , Sommerau ⊙ , Toos , Wartenwil ⊙ , Welfensberg , Dietschwil ⊙ , Hänisberg ⊙ , Ötwil ⊙ , Schalkhausen ⊙ and Wolfikon ⊙ as well as Balterswil and Hatterswil ⊙ .
Thurlinden belonged to the Kyburg legacy of the Counts of Habsburg in the 13th century . It was two free Weibeln care, each one Hube possessed in Oetwil and Remensberg. In 1314 Duke Leopold I of Habsburg pledged the Weibelhube Ötwil. In 1506, Balthasar von Hohenlandenberg sold Thurlinden to the Prince Abbey of St. Gallen , which placed it under the administration of Hof Wil. The free course ( opening in 1458) met from the late Middle Ages in the east of Rickenbach in the county Toggenburg located Linden ⊙ at the Thur , in bad weather in a tavern in Rickenbach.
literature
- Erich Trösch: Thurlinden. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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