Forest cities

This article deals with the forest cities on the Rhine; For the federal locations of the same name, see Waldstätte .

The four forest towns in Front Austria (In blue: Front Austrian area)

The four forest towns on the Upper Rhine are the country towns

• Rheinfelden in Aargau (as well as the core of Rheinfelden in Baden , which was not built up before 1800 ),
• Säckingen ,
• Laufenburg in Aargau and Laufenburg in Baden and
• Waldshut with the seat of the Waldvogteiamt

The name comes from the time when, under the Habsburgs , Front Austria extended over the southern Black Forest to the Sundgau and Breisgau and the four cities formed the transition to the forest from the point of view of the home country . The headquarters of the Habsburg foreland was Ensisheim near Mulhouse .

history

When Friedrich I Barbarossa awarded the parish of the Säckingen monastery to Albrecht III in 1173 . from Habsburg began the connection between the forest site and the Habsburgs , who also acquired the two castles of Ofterdingen and Laufenburg in Laufenburg. The Habsburgs founded Waldshut (first mentioned in 1256). The rule Rheinfelden and the city of Rheinfelden as well as part of the Fricktal came in 1330 by pledging to Habsburg and was in 1449 by Friedrich III. attached to the rule of Waldstädte. The end of the forest cities came with the end of Upper Austria . In 1802, Switzerland received the parts of the forest towns to the left of the Rhine.

See also

• Waldshut War
• Fricktal

Web links

• Christian Ruch: Forest cities. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Central for teaching media: The four forest cities